Talk:FAME Studios

The famous horn section
Somehow the word "horn" doesn't appear in this article, and there is no entry for Muscle Shoals Horns. An important piece of the fame of FAME, no? But I don't have anything citable at hand. Whoever is working on this article may want to rectify. - Jmabel | Talk 00:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree - also there are articles at Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio which should be linked.

Here's an item on the horns - "Beginning as part of the Fame Gang, a loose knit group of session musicians who worked under the direction of Rick Hall at Fame Recording studio, the Muscle Shoals Horns soon earned their separate identity by performing on many recordings made at a variety of studios in the Muscle Shoals area.

Originally composed of Harvey Thompson, saxophone, Ronnie Eades, baritone saxophone, Harrison Calloway, trumpet and Aaron Varnell, trombone, in the late 60s, the group solidified in 1970 when Charles Rose filled the spot vacated by Varnell. The lineup remained together until the mid-80s, adding a variety of specialist from time to time.

While primarily a studio horn section, the Muscle Shoals Horns toured extensively with Elton John in the mid-70s, playing on the famed "Philadelphia Freedom" recording, which also featured John Lennon.

Later in the 70s, the horn section released three albums of their own compositions which capitalized on the disco dance craze, and they formed a band which toured opening for groups such as Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as headlining shows in smaller venues." - http://www.alamhof.org/muscleshoalshorns.html -- Beardo (talk) 22:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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FAME vs. Muscle Shoals Sound Studio??
It seems to me that there has not been effective differentiation between the two entities in the lede to the FAME article. (The concept of Muscle Shoals sound  includes both studios but they were very different entities. http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Muscle-Shoals-review-a-soulful-musical-feast-4885601.php)

See the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio article. e.g. The lede: Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama, was formed in 1969 by four session musicians called The Swampers, who had left the nearby FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, to create their own recording facility. The studio at this location closed in 1979, with the facility moving to 1000 Alabama Avenue. The old studio, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2006, had been partly restored in the early 2000s and was sold to the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation in 2013. This group completed a major restoration and the location reopened on January 9, 2017.[2] The Alabama Avenue location ceased operations as Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 2005.[3]

I am not particularly interested in FAME, so I do not plan to do any editing but perhaps someone should. Peter K Burian (talk) 17:31, 17 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Also see this article, which is quite specific that FAME was totally distinct from Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: http://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/aretha_to_the_black_keys_the_muscle_shoals_story/
 * In 1969 keyboardist Barry Beckett, drummer Roger Hawkins, bassist David Hood, and guitarist Jimmy Johnson pooled their resources to break from FAME, and the quartet bought their own recording studio at 3614 Jackson Highway
 * So we had left FAME in Muscle Shoals, and Rick was really pissed off at us and was trying to get us and was hoping that we wouldn't succeed. So I thought, let's call it Muscle Shoals Sound just to get at Rick. ... And the studio, we compared it soundwise to FAME. It was our goal to make it sound as good as FAME. Peter K Burian (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2017 (UTC)