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TIME. JAZZ MUSICIANS DON鈥橳 CARE WHETHER YOU鈥橰E BLACK OR WHITE, RICH OR POOR. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS, CAN YOU PLAY? AND THAT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER, INSPIRING THE WORLD AROUND THEM. BIG MAMA WAS NOT ONLY A TRAILBLAZER FOR WOMEN, BUT SHE WAS A TRAILBLAZER FOR EQUALITY, MAKING MUSIC, MEMORIES AND HISTORY. WILSON PICKETT, ARETHA FRANKLIN, LITTLE RICHARD, LOU RAWLS FOR THOSE WHO LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING. 米兰体育 13 PRESENTS PROJECT COMMUNITY UNSUNG HEROES OF BLACK HISTORY. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I鈥橫 GUY RAWLINGS AND I鈥橫 CARLA WADE RIGHT HERE IN CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE MAGIC CITY IS STEEPED IN MUSICAL HISTORY. DINAH WASHINGTON, ERSKINE HAWKINS, ELLA FITZGERALD, AND MANY OTHER BLACK PIONEERS HAVE ALL TAKEN THE STAGE AT THE CARVER THEATER. IT WAS ONCE A HUB FOR NIGHTLIFE IN A SEGREGATED BIRMINGHAM. SINCE ITS OPENING IN 1935, THE VENUE HAS ATTRACTED SOME OF THE TOP JAZZ ACTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND WHILE MANY HAVE TRAVELED JUST TO PLAY HERE IN BIRMINGHAM, OTHER NOTABLE ARTISTS WERE BORN AND RAISED RIGHT HERE IN ALABAMA. THAT INCLUDES BIG MAMA THORNTON, THE FACE BEHIND ONE OF ELVIS PRESLEY鈥橲 MOST ICONIC HITS. 米兰体育 13 MAGDALA LOUISSAINT TRAVELED TO BIG MAMA鈥橲 HOMETOWN OF ARITON. SHE TELLS US HOW THE SINGER CONTINUES TO BE REMEMBERED BY HER COMMUNITY. WELCOME TO THE TOWN OF ARITON. A POPULATION OF OVER 660 PEOPLE. AT THE ONLY TRAFFIC LIGHT IN TOWN SITS IN OLD BUS STATION, WHERE A LITTLE GIRL NAMED WILLIE MAE USED TO PLAY HER HARMONICA. SHE WAS LIKE 8 OR 9 YEARS OLD, PLAYING HER HARMONICA, WHICH HER BROTHER TAUGHT HER TO PLAY. THAT YOUNG CHILD WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME BIG MAMA THORNTON TO THE WORLD. ONCE THEY HEARD HER VIBRANT, GROWLING SOUND ON HER SONG HOUND DOG, YOU AIN鈥橳 NOTHING BUT A HOUND. ALL THOSE WORDS WOULD SET BIG MAMA THORNTON TO BECOME AN ARTIST WHO CROSSES RACIAL BARRIERS. ELVIS PRESLEY鈥橲 HOUND DOG VERSION WAS A BIG MAMA THORNTON INFLUENCE. TODAY鈥橲 POP STARS LIKE DOJA CAT SAMPLED HOUND DOG AND HER SONG CALLED VEGAS. ELVIS PRESLEY RECORDED ABOUT THREE YEARS AFTER THAT, BUT HE RECORDED IT. HE HEARD IT, A VERSION OF IT DONE BY LIKE A BAR GROUP, AND THAT鈥橲 WHERE HE PICKED IT UP. HE CHANGED THE LYRICS A LITTLE BIT SO IT COULD APPEAL TO THE WHITE AUDIENCE. GIL ANTHONY IS THE CURATOR OF THIS OLD BUS STATION TURNED MUSEUM. I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO REALIZE WHAT A FORCE SHE WAS. FOR 30 YEARS, HE鈥橲 BEEN COLLECTING AS MANY FLIERS, ALBUM COVERS AND HANDBILLS. HE CAN FIND ABOUT BIG MAMA. IT SHOWS HER VERSATILITY BECAUSE SHE DOES SOME SORT OF CONTEMPORARY R&B TYPE THINGS. ANTHONY AND BIG MAMA鈥橲 COUSIN BENJAMIN KEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE MUSEUM TOGETHER. WE OFTEN TELL GIL HE HAS REVIVED HER LIFE BECAUSE SHE WAS DEAD TO US, BUT HE BROUGHT HER BACK TO LIFE. HE IS A COUNCILOR FOR ARITON. HE SAYS HIS MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS TOLD HIM STORIES ABOUT BIG MAMA. THIS WAS A PROJECT THAT I WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN TRYING TO GET HERE AND AND IT WAS. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SOMETHING FOR GOOD FOR THE TOWN OF AITANA, THEN FOR DALE COUNTY. JUST LAST YEAR, THE MEN TRAVELED TO WITNESS BIG MAMA THORNTON GET INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. TO SEE THAT PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, KNEW THAT MUCH ABOUT HER AND AND WHAT SHE DID FOR THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. WHILE THAT RECOGNITION MAY HAVE COME DECADES LATER, THE WORK TO HONOR WILLIE MAE IN HER HOMETOWN STARTED IN 2023 WITH THE NEW STREET NAME BIG MAMA THORNTON CIRCLE, SORT OF A LONG RANGE PLAN IS IN MOUNT OLIVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, JUST ABOUT A HALF A MILE AWAY. WE鈥橠 WANT TO PUT JUST A MEMORIAL, A MONUMENT FOR BIG MAMA, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE HER REMAINS WILL PROBABLY NEVER COME TO ARITON, ALABAMA. BUT FOR NOW, THIS OLD BUS STATION TURNED INTO A MUSEUM WILL BE THE MEMORIAL FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WHO BECAME A BIG FORCE IN MUSIC HISTORY. YOU AIN鈥橳 NOTHING BUT A HOUND ON IN ARITON, ALABAMA. MONDO. I鈥橫 MAGDALA LOUISSAINT YOUR ESDALE 米兰体育 13 ARE, YOU KNOW, MORE? AND BO WILD TO YOU TO. AND ON MARCH 1ST THE MUSEUM WILL HAVE ITS OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING. IN ADDITION TO SEEING ARTWORK THAT IS HONORING BIG MAMA, VISITORS WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BLUES MUSICIAN J.W WARREN, WHO WAS BORN IN ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA. HITSVILLE USA, HOME OF THE SIGNATURE MOTOWN SOUND. THE RECORDING STUDIO IN DETROIT CHURNED OUT SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE ACTS OF THE 1960S, FROM THE MIRACLES TO THE SUPREMES, BUT ONE OF MOTOWN鈥橲 GREATEST COMES FROM RIGHT HERE IN CENTRAL ALABAMA. 米兰体育 13 JARVIS ROBERTSON TELLS US HOW THE LEGACY OF EDDIE KENDRICKS LIVES ON IN THE MAGIC CITY, SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEMPTATIONS, SOME OF THEIR MOST ICONIC SONGS COME TO LIFE, SONGS LIKE MY GIRL OR BEAUTY鈥橲 ONLY SKIN DEEP AT THE FOREFRONT OF MANY OF THEIR HITS, IS ONE UNDENIABLE AND MEMORABLE VOICE, THAT BEING EDDIE KENDRICKS. THIS SCULPTURE OF THE BIRMINGHAM NATIVE WAS COMMISSIONED IN THE LATE 90S. THE BRONZE SCULPTURE SITS IN THE HISTORIC FOURTH AVENUE BUSINESS DISTRICT NORTH. EDDIE KENDRICKS WAS BORN IN BIRMINGHAM IN 1937 AND WAS DISCOVERED BY MOTOWN RECORDS IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN. THE SCULPTURE WAS DONE BY DOCTOR RONALD MCDOWELL. HE TOLD US IT TOOK ABOUT SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR TO FINISH. THE ARTIST SAYS HE CAME UP WITH THREE DIFFERENT MODELS TO HELP WITH PREPARATION. MCDOWELL SPENT TIME WITH THE KENDRICK FAMILY LEARNING ABOUT WHO EDDIE WAS. HIS NICKNAME WAS CORNBREAD BECAUSE IT WAS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE FOODS, MCDOWELL SAYS. THE R&B STAR鈥橲 MOTHER ALSO GAVE INPUT ON HOW EDDIE鈥橲 BODY WOULD LOOK THROUGH THE SCULPTURE. I HAD HIS MOM COME TO THE FOUNDRY AND BRENT MARTIN STUDIOS ON ON SECOND AVENUE SOUTH, WHERE WE CAST THE STATUES, AND SHE WOULD COME IN AND SHE KIND OF HELPED ME WITH THE WAY SHE WANTED HIS BODY TO LOOK, AND SHE SAID HE WAS SUPER THIN. EDDIE KENDRICKS DIED OF LUNG CANCER IN OCTOBER 1992. WHILE THIS TANGIBLE SCULPTURE STANDS IN HIS MEMORY AND HONOR HIS ICONIC AND SMOOTH FALSETTO VOICE CAN STILL BE HEARD IN HIS MANY RECORDINGS TODAY, JARVIS ROBERTSON 米兰体育 13, FROM CENTRAL ALABAMA TO OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH, MUSCLE SHOALS HOME OF ONE OF THE NATION鈥橲 MOST LEGENDARY RECORDING STUDIOS FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES, FAME STUDIOS HAS BEEN PROPELLING ARTISTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, AND THAT MISSION CONTINUES TODAY. 米兰体育 13 S LISA CRANE INTRODUCES US TO THE MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND. WELCOME TO FAME STUDIOS IN MUSCLE SHOALS. THIS UNASSUMING BUILDING HAS HOSTED MORE MUSICAL ICONS THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. INSIDE, YOU CAN FEEL THE HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE. OTIS REDDING, DUANE ALLMAN, JERRY REED THE WALLS TELL THE STORY OF FAME鈥橲 RICH HISTORY. EVERY ITEM IN THE BUILDING IS SIGNIFICANT. THIS ROOM WAS ADDED ON IN 1967. RODNEY HALL RUNS FAME NOW, BUT IT WAS HIS FATHER, RICK, WHO STARTED THE STUDIO BACK IN 1959. HE HAPPENED ACROSS A GUY NAMED ARTHUR ALEXANDER, WHO WAS A LOCAL BELLHOP, WAS A BLACK MAN FROM FROM FLORENCE. AND THEY RECORDED A SONG CALLED YOU BETTER MOVE ON AND BECAME A HIT. HIS NEXT ARTIST WAS A GUY NAMED JIMMY HUGHES FROM LEIGHTON, ALABAMA, AND THEY HAD A SONG CALLED STEAL AWAY, WHICH WAS A HIT. SO HE WAS BATTING A THOUSAND DOING R&B AND SOUL MUSIC AND JUST FIGURED OUT THAT THAT鈥橲 WHERE HE HAD FOUND HIS NICHE. AND THE ARTIST FOUND HIM. IT JUST SNOWBALLED INTO WILSON PICKETT, ARETHA FRANKLIN, LITTLE RICHARD, LOU RAWLS, SOLOMON BURKE, ETTA JAMES. ON AND ON AND ON. AND IF YOU WERE IF YOU WERE AN R&B SOUL ARTIST IN THE 60S AND 70S YOU YOU RECORDED HERE OR YOU WANTED TO. AS THE COUNTRY STRUGGLED WITH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL, AND MANY IN ALABAMA SUFFERED RACIAL INJUSTICE, IT WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD. INSIDE FAME STUDIOS, NORTH ALABAMA WAS KIND OF A SAFE HAVEN. IT WAS ALWAYS KIND OF A UNION SYMPATHIZER, EVEN BACK IN THE CIVIL WAR. SO IT WAS WAS SAFE HERE, YOU KNOW, AND IT WAS A IT WAS A IT WAS THE FIRST INTEGRATED RHYTHM SECTION IN, IN ALABAMA, FOR SURE, AND ONE OF THE FIRST IN THE COUNTRY. HALL SAYS HIS DAD LAUNCHED THE CAREERS OF MANY BLACK MUSICIANS. HE鈥橲 NOW REMEMBERED AS A MAN WHO BROKE BARRIERS FOR BLACK ARTISTS. HALL SAYS HE DOESN鈥橳 THINK HIS DAD REALIZED THAT AT THE TIME. HE DIDN鈥橳 DIDN鈥橳 CARE ABOUT COLOR. HE DIDN鈥橳 CARE ABOUT ANYTHING. ALL HE CARED ABOUT WAS CUTTING A HIT RECORD, AND HE REALIZED THAT IT HAD HAPPENED LATER. BUT I鈥橫 NOT SURE THAT HE REALIZED THE FULL IMPACT THAT IT HAD, THAT THE MUSIC HAD ON ON SOCIETY. YOU THINK THAT SOMETHING HE WAS PROUD OF? ABSOLUTELY. 100%. YEAH. HE WAS VERY PROUD THAT THAT HAPPENED. EVEN NOW, 66 YEARS AFTER RICK HALL STARTED THE STUDIO, FAME IS STILL LAUNCHING CAREERS AND RECORDING HITS. HALL SAYS IT鈥橲 THAT MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND THEY鈥橰E ALL SEARCHING FOR. THERE鈥橲 A THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH IT ALL, AND I THINK THAT鈥橲 SOUL, WHICH IS BELIEVABILITY, WHICH IS AUTHENTICITY. THE UP AND COMERS JUST WANT TO GET THAT SOUND. THEY JUST WANT TO, YOU KNOW, A PIECE OF THEY WANT THAT SAME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY HEAR IN WILSON PICKETT AND ARETHA FRANKLIN RECORDS. THEY WANT IT ON THEIR RECORDS. HALL SAYS THE WORLD OUTSIDE FAME STUDIOS HAS CHANGED A LOT SINCE 1959, BUT NOT SO MUCH INSIDE. THEY鈥橰E STILL FOCUSED ON THE SOUNDS, NOT THE COLOR, AND THEY鈥橰E READY TO MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEGENDS. IT鈥橲 ALL ABOUT MUSIC. IF YOU CAN PLAY AND YOU CAN SING AND YOU CAN BRING IT, THEN YOU鈥橰E WELCOME HERE. LISA CRANE 米兰体育 13. AND JUST LIKE HALL SAYS, TODAY鈥橲 ARTISTS CONTINUE TO BRING IT AT FAME STUDIOS. AND RECENTLY, FAME RECORDED PROJECTS FOR ARTISTS LIKE ALICIA KEYS, DEMI LOVATO AND JASON ISBELL, AND THE 400 UNIT. AIN鈥橳 NO BUS NO MORE, Y鈥橝LL CAN HEAR THAT BUS IF YOU WANT TO, BUT UNTIL YOU ALL CHANGE THE WAY YOU ARE TREATING US ABOUT THIS BUS, HEY WE WALKING AT 80 YEARS OLD? ONE WOMAN鈥橲 REFLECTING ON HER ROLE IN THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT, HOW SHE AND HER FRIENDS USED THEIR VOICES TO PROMOTE CHANGE AND EQUALITY IN. MANY RECOGNIZE ACTIVIST ROSA PARKS FOR TAKING A STAND DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT BY REFUSING TO GIVE UP HER SEAT TO A WHITE PERSON ON A SEGREGATED BUS. BUT FEW PEOPLE KNOW OF THE 15 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO TOOK PART IN A SIMILAR PROTEST NINE MONTHS BEFORE PARKS WAS ARRESTED, HIDDEN IN THE SHADOWS OF CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IS CLAUDETTE COLVIN. ON MARCH 2ND, 1955, THE TEENAGER WAS CHARGED WITH VIOLATING MONTGOMERY SEGREGATION LAW WHEN SHE IGNORED AN ORDER TO MOVE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS. COLVIN SAYS AT THE TIME, THE MONTGOMERY NAACP DIDN鈥橳 ADVOCATE ON HER BEHALF, POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF HER DARKER COMPLEXION OR THE FACT THAT SHE BECAME PREGNANT AT A YOUNG AGE. HER JUVENILE RECORD WAS FINALLY EXPUNGED IN 2021, WHEN COLVIN WAS 82 YEARS OLD. TODAY, SHE CONTINUES TO ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.