Part four in our series on Memphis and Muscle Shoals takes us a bit deeper into the story of Rick Hall’s Fame studio, featuring a few incredible hits, a few that got away, and also some of the great work that never managed to reach the charts. 

Usually, the story of Muscle Shoals focuses solely on the hits generated by the lauded studio, but there is much to be learned from some of the great songs that for one reason or another never graced the national charts. For every song that becomes a hit, there are usually a few hundred behind it that fall into the category of ‘coulda/shoulda/woulda’. These songs are a ‘sneak peak’ behind the scenes of what went into making a hit record in Muscle Shoals circa 1964, from songwriting to performance and production. 

Featured tracks include; 

1) What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am – The Tams

2) Laugh It Off – The Tams

3) Let’s Do It Over – Joe Simon

4) Let Them Talk – Dan Penn

5) Wish You Didn’t Have to Go – Spooner and the Spoons

6) Hold What You’ve Got – Joe Tex

7) A Man Is a Mean, Mean Thing – Barbara Perry

8) Fortune Teller – The Del-Rays

9) Funny Style- Bobby Marchan

10) Too Much – The Entertainers

11) When a Man Loves a Woman – Percy Sledge