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Hall of Fame: Rick Hall in his FAME Studios (2010)

Roe Erister "Rick" Hall (born January 31, 1932 in Forest Grove, Mississippi ; † January 2, 2018 in Muscle Shoals , Alabama ) was an American music producer , label boss and sound engineer . As the owner of Florence Alabama Music Enterprises ( FAME for short ), a record label with its own recording studio and affiliated music publisher, Rick Hall played a key role in the creation of the "Muscle Shoals Sound".

Live and act

Rick Hall came from a very poor background. By his own admission, the poverty-stricken background was the main driving force behind his work.

In 1959, Rick Hall founded the Florence Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME for short ) in Florence (Alabama) , consisting of the music publisher FAME Publishing , the record label FAME Records and the recording studio FAME Recording Studios .

Soul sixties

The FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals 2010

The first album recorded with studio musicians was the single You Better Move On / A Shot of Rhythm and Blues by Arthur Alexander . The country soul single became a national hit and was soon covered by The Hollies and the Rolling Stones . With revenues of US $ 10,000, Hall extensively expanded his new studio, which was housed in a converted tobacco barn.

While the singers were mostly black, Rick Hall's studio band consisted of the white musicians David Briggs (piano), Norbert Putnam (bass), Jerry Carrigan (drums), Earl "Peanut" Montgomery (guitar), Terry Thompson (guitar) and Donnie Fritts . At Rick Hall, whites sounded like blacks and country sounded like soul. Due to persistently poor pay, his first house band left him in 1964 to offer their services in Nashville , Tennessee. Rick Hall stuck to his integrative soul concept and put together a new house band of white musicians, consisting of Spooner Oldham (piano, organ), Jimmy Johnson (guitar), David Hood (bass) and Roger Hawkins (drums).

Through Jerry Wexler , a productive collaboration with Atlantic Records came about in the fall of 1964 . In early 1967, the newly signed Aretha Franklin recorded the Atlantic single I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) , which sold over a million copies and marked the breakthrough for Aretha Franklin as a soul singer. Nevertheless, the recording session ended in an argument.

When Hall signed a contract with Capitol Records in 1969 , another house band, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section aka "The Swampers" , quit due to poor pay . With seed capital from Jerry Wexler / Atlantic, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section founded the competing Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway in nearby Sheffield, Alabama . Rick Hall took this as a "declaration of war" at the time.

Later years

With the new studio band "Fame Gang" in the house and a changed taste in music in the hit parades, the sound of FAME also changed. Away from southern soul , towards country and shallow mainstream pop.

In 1970, for MGM Records , Rick Hall produced the successful debut of the Osmonds , a five-member, white family band in the style of the Jackson Five . The released single One Bad Apple was number one in the single charts for five weeks.

Awards

In 1970 he was nominated for a Grammy for producer of the year for the number one hit One Bad Apple with the Osmonds . Rick Hall was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1985 . In 2014 he received the Grammy Trustees Award alongside Ennio Morricone .

Productions (selection)

literature

  • Richard Younger: Get A Shot of Rhythm & Blues - The Arthur Alexander Story. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2000, ISBN 0-8173-1024-X . (English)
  • Richard Younger: The Monument Years. Liner Notes for Arthur Alexander - The Monument Years (CD), Ace Records, 2001. (English)
  • Rick Hall: The Man from Muscle Shoals. My Journey from Shame to Fame. Monterey 2015, ISBN 978-1-941437-52-0 (English)

documentary

  • Greg 'Freddy' Camalier: Muscle Shoals. Magnolia Pictures, USA 2013.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Jon Pareles: Rick Hall, Architect of the Muscle Shoals Sound, Dies at 85 in: The New York Times, January 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ Famed Muscle Shoals Music Producer Rick Hall Dies at 85 in: The New York Times, January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ Edo Reents: Out of Shame to Fame in: faz.net January 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ About Fame .
  5. ↑ Edo Reents: Out of Shame to Fame in: faz.net January 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Christine Heise: RIP Rick Hall: Producer legend leaves a great legacy in: HappySad ( 9pm - 11pm) on Radio Eins from January 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Greg 'Freddy' Camalier: Muscle Shoals. Magnolia Pictures, BBC / USA 2013.
  8. ↑ Amanda Petrusich: Remembering Rick Hall and the Musical Alchemy of FAME Studios in: The New Yorker, January 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Rick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Roe Erister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer, label boss and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest Grove, Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2018
Place of death Muscle Shoals , Alabama