On This Day In Alabama History: Percy Sledge Was Born
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
Nov. 25, 1940: One of the most iconic voices in American music first cried out in Leighton, Alabama, on this day in 1940.
Percy Sledge did his first singing at the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, and earned a living as an orderly at a hospital in Colbert County. He idolized the voices he heard on the radio from the Grand Ole Opry, and managed to fuse the sounds of country, soul and gospel.
In 1966, Sledge recorded “When a Man Loves a Woman” at the Norala Studios in Sheffield. Later that year, it became the first Billboard #1 to be recorded in Muscle Shoals, and checked in at #53 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in 2004.
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