Fame Gang (Musical group) (Corporate Name)

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allmusic.com viewed August 12, 2021 (The Fame Gang were the in-house band of the Fame Recording Studios located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The first Fame house band featured David Briggs and Spooner Oldham on keyboards, Norbert Putnam on bass, Earl "Peanut" Montgomery and Terry Thompson on guitars, and Jerry Carrigan on drums. This group drifted apart, with many going on to successful careers as songwriters and session players. Rick Hall, who ran the Fame Studios, replaced them with a new band whose members were even more respected. Guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Junior Lowe, keyboard man Barry Beckett, bassist David Hood, and drummer Roger Hawkins developed a reputation as one of the finest session bands in America. In 1969 they left Fame to open their own recording facility, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where they continued to enjoy a long and successful career. When the members of the second Fame house band struck out on their own, Rick Hall organized a new combo, the largest to date. The third Fame studio crew featured Junior Lowe on guitar, Jesse Boyce on bass, Clayton Ivey on keyboards and guitar, Freeman Brown on drums, Harrison Calloway on trumpet, Aaron Varnell on tenor and alto sax, Ronnie Eades on baritone sax, and Harvey Thompson on tenor sax and flute, with Mickey Buckins handling arrangements and production. While the group's primary responsibility was backing the Fame Studio's clients, unlike the studio's other rhythm sections, the third band released records on its own, under the name the Fame Gang.) https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fame-gang-mn0001550812/biography

Fame Studios website viewed August 12, 2021 (The group best known as the Fame Gang - the 1969-era band that principally recorded under that name - were the set of players under Rick Hall's employ that were actually together the shortest time. The earlier groupings had done his bidding in exemplary fashion for almost eight years, but his didactic ways saw them both quit. With the Fame Gang Mk3, Hall accumulated probably the most accommodating set of musicians he could have hoped for. Not only did he now have a permanent brass section, but they were Nashville-trained, jazz-schooled and, significantly, three-quarters black. Drummer Freeman Brown had the fatback beat down; in-the-pocket bassist Jesse Boyce could equally deliver precision counterpoint. Clayton Ivey brought a seasoned yet open-minded approach to the keyboards; Junior Lowe kept it soulful on guitar. Last but not least, there was producer Mickey Buckins, sprinkling ear candy on the results of the combo's inspired instrumental improvisations, mostly started during warm-ups or at the tail-ends of sessions when the featured vocalist had split.) https://famestudios.com/product/the-fame-gang-grits-and-gravy/

Fame Gang was the house band for the Fame Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The third iteration of the band released records of their own using the name Fame Gang. Members included Junior Lowe on guitar, Jesse Boyce on bass, Clayton Ivey on keyboards and guitar, Freeman Brown on drums, Harrison Calloway on trumpet, Aaron Varnell on tenor and alto sax, Ronnie Eades on baritone sax, and Harvey Thompson on tenor sax and flute, with Mickey Buckins handling arrangements and production.