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Birmingham-born Laura Washington joined the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra as a teenager in 1946, scoring a hit that year for the band with her performance of Joe Liggins’ “I’ve Got a Right to Cry.” (The Hawkins/Washington cover reached #2 on the…

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“Stars Fell On Alabama”: Dot Adams with the Frank Adams band at the Woodland Club, 1960s. For fourteen years in the 1950s and ’60s, the Frank Adams band performed nearly every weekend at the Woodland Club, a “honkytonk” on the edge of Birmingham, in…

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This undated reel-to-reel recording from the Frank Adams collection includes Adams on clarinet and alto saxophone, drummer Herbie Bryant, bassist Ivory “Pops” Williams, and other unidentified performers. Performances include two upbeat instrumentals,…

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Sugarfoot Sam from Alabam. Undated photo.

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Birmingham pianist, bandleader, and regional featherweight boxing champion, Noel “Kid” Ray, with his band, 1920s. Ray later moved to Gadsden, Alabama, to pursue a career in radio broadcasting.

Photo courtesy Patrick Cather.

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Mary Frady, Jerry Frady, and Ruby Fallon perform for Anniston radio station WSPG, undated.

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Army band practice at Camp McClellan, near Anniston, Alabama, in a 1918 postcard. The Southern Music Research Center archive includes two copies of this postcard. One, addressed to Miss Mary Sewell in Jacksonville, Alabama and signed "Your classmate…

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The Stardusters, German POW band at Camp Aliceville. The Aliceville POW camp, which operated from December 1942 – September 1945, offered its prisoners a range of cultural activities, including musical and theatrical groups, college-level courses…

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Music at Camp Rucker, Dale County, Alabama. Press photo, 1950.

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Draper Prison Band at Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery. Press photo, September 1953. Newspaper caption: “Prison band whoops it up—It has become customary for the Draper Prison band to play in the Capitol rotunda the closing night of the legislative…

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Jane Elmore, age 10, plays piano at the Crippled Children’s Clinic, Birmingham, Alabama. Press photo, 1951. Also pictured are Sylvia Whitlow, Cary Ussery, and Larry Woods.

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Guitarist Al Talley entertains at a dinner for University of Alabama Dental School alumni, press photo, 1967.

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Attendee Pearl Benson at Birmingham’s Festival of Sacred Music, press photo, 1963. Birmingham’s third annual Festival of Sacred Music opened on November 26, 1963, with an emotional “farewell” to President John F. Kennedy, who had been killed just a…

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Hurtsboro High School marching band, Hurtsboro Christmas Parade, Main Street, Hurtsboro, Alabama. Press photo by Joe Maher, 1989.

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Sensational Gospelaires, Selma, Alabama, undated publicity photo.

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String band, likely Baldwin County, Alabama, undated. William Riley Cooper, far right; other musicians unidentified.

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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…

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Happy Hal Burns, Birmingham radio personality, “and his little dog ‘Sissy’” in a wartime promotional photo. Photo is addressed to Mrs. M. R. Daniels in Thomasville, NC, and accompanied by a form letter from Happy Hal’s sponsor, the American Snuff…

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Letter from the American Snuff Company to a fan of Birmingham’s Happy Hal Burns. (See previous image).

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Banjo player Darrell Mogran at the Woodstock, Alabama, Bluegrass Festival, November 1971, photographer unknown.

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