Rabe Perkins Sings. 1972 songbook, Birmingham, Alabama.In the 1940s and '50s, the duo Rebe and Rabe -- Revin "Rebe" Gosdin and Auburn J. C. "Rabe" Perkins -- established themselves as popular fixtures of Birmingham, Alabama, radio station WVOK.…
Fan-made photo of Sidney Louie "Hardrock" Gunter (1925-2013) and his band, onstage at the Santa Fe Ranch. The Birmingham, Alabama-born country musician got his start in the 1930s as a member of the Hoot Owl Ramblers and, then, Happy Wilson's Golden…
Happy Hal Burns (Harold Frank Byrnes) was a popular, longtime Birmingham radio personality and a mentor to many of the city’s “hillbilly” and country acts, including Hank Penny, Sidney “Hardrock” Gunter, and Gordon Edwards “Country Boy Eddie” Burns…