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Muscle shoals recording studio1/1/2024 ![]() MARTIN: But in Rick Hall's FAME Studio there was no color line. In doing that we were afraid of white people that didn't like the idea of us recording black singers. HALL: During the '60s we had it tough here because we wanted to produce black music, black - with black artists singing. MARTIN: Rick Hall, a white producer, worked with African-American musicians at a time when Alabama was segregated. So absolutely it was a milestone and the turning point in my career. That's where I recorded "I Never Loved a Man," which became my first million-selling record. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "MUSCLE SHOALS")įRANKLIN: Coming to Muscle Shoals was the turning point. MARTIN: Here's what Aretha Franklin had to say in the 2013 documentary "Muscle Shoals." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I NEVER LOVED A MAN (THE WAY I LOVE YOU)")ĪRETHA FRANKLIN: (Singing) I ain't never, no, no. LINDA WERTHEIMER, BYLINE: You don't write it down? And it was little jazz-oriented records with written arrangements. RICK HALL: It was a little bit too vanilla, and was too many ditties. In an interview from 2015, Hall told NPR's Linda Wertheimer that before she came to Muscle Shoals and found her voice, Aretha Franklin's music wasn't selling. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Ride, Sally, ride.ĬHANG: There at his small FAME Studios, Rick Hall cut some of the biggest records, like Aretha Franklin's first hit. ![]() All you want to do is ride around, Sally. Just listen to this, Wilson Pickett's version of "Mustang Sally." ![]() Hall was the founder of FAME Recording Studios, the place that made Muscle Shoals, Ala., synonymous with the Southern sound of soul and R&B. MARTIN: Music producer and songwriter Rick Hall, the so-called father of Muscle Shoals music, has died. (SOUNDBITE OF WILSON PICKETT SONG, "MUSTANG SALLY") You may not know him by name, but you know his sound.
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