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FAME Studios

CTL-PL-0155 · Place

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Combined Graph record U-02617 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0155. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett sessions

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Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett sessions

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FAME Studios' own site (tier 2) states 'FAME Music was established in 1959 in Florence, Alabama, and has gone on to be the heartbeat of the Muscle Shoals Sound with entities including FAME Publishing, FAME Recording Studios, FAME Records and Muscle Shoals Records. FAME moved to Muscle Shoals in 1961,' and lists artists it has worked with in the studio including Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Lou Rawls, Otis Redding, Clarence Carter and Candi Staton. Establishes existence, recording-studio type, the Muscle Shoals, Alabama location, the 1959 founding, and the stored Aretha Franklin / Wilson Pickett session note. The fetched homepage states no street address, so none is stamped (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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