The family moved to Hueytown, Alabama and along with Bobby's brother Donnie Allison, family friend Red Farmer, and Neil Bonnett, became known in racing circles as the Alabama Gang.

This impressive showing earned Davey more Winston Cup opportunities in 1986 where he would sub for injured friend and fellow Alabama Gang member Neil Bonnett in Junior Johnson's # 12 Budweiser Chevy.

* “ Sweet Home Alabama ” ( 1974 ) was Lynyrd Skynyrd's response to Neil Young's “ Southern Man ” ( 1970 ) and “ Alabama ” ( 1972 ).

* Neil Young used word arrangements from this spiritual and from its 1968 adaptation " Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac " by Dizzy Gillespie in different parts of his song " Alabama " on the album Harvest ( 1972 ):

Also on the line-up were Ash, Placebo, Shack, The Keds, The Charlatans, Stereophonics, Neil Finn, The Waterboys, Evan Dando, Texas, Frank Black, Snow Patrol, Alabama 3, Turn, The Frames, Relish, The White Stripes, James, and David Kitt.

In 1992, Phi Mu sorority member Minda Riley ( daughter of former Alabama Governor Bob Riley ) ran against Machine-backed candidate and Beta Theta Pi fraternity member Neil Duthie.

To demonstrate this camaraderie, Van Zant frequently wore a Neil Young Tonight's the Night T-shirt while performing " Sweet Home Alabama ".

It was the band's second album, and featured its biggest hit single, " Sweet Home Alabama ", an answer song to Neil Young's " Alabama " and " Southern Man ".

The first SPLC case was filed by Dees against the Young Men's Christian Association ( YMCA ) in Montgomery, Alabama, that " continued to segregate children, going so far as to ban kids who swam at an integrated pool from city-wide meets.

Young Rapper D-KO was born in Enterprise, but made Raspee Recordz in Dothan, Alabama

Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Coleman Young, a dry cleaner, and Ida Reese Jones.

Young was appointed to serve as pastor of a church in Marion, Alabama.

Young was jailed for his participation in civil rights demonstrations, both in Selma, Alabama, and in St. Augustine, Florida.

Young played a key role in the events in Birmingham, Alabama, serving as a mediator between the white and black communities.

* Young Boozer ( born 1948 ), American banker and Alabama State Treasurer

Young Stephen was sent to school near Mobile, Alabama, but his education was interrupted by his father's death.

Others, like John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, The Eagles, Faron Young, Willie Nelson, Dottie West, Alabama, Eddie Rabbitt, Ronnie Milsap and Anne Murray began successful in Country but made the crossover to pop music.

William Gray Espy ( born July 19, 1948 in Dothan, Alabama, U. S .) is an actor, best known for roles in serials such as The Young and the Restless as William " Snapper " Foster ( 1973-1975, 2003 ) and Another World as Mitch Blake ( 1979-1982, 1986-1990 ).

Other regional theatre credits include Lysander / Thisbe / Cobweb in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented in the Spring of 2006 by the SITI Company ( where Harrison has studied extensively through Skidmore College and in Manhattan ); Young Tom in the Guthrie Theater's production of The Glass Menagerie ( 2007 ); Andy Warhol in the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Pop!

The 2013 Young Republican National Convention will be held in Mobile, Alabama.

He has received numerous awards, including a citation as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Nation ( Ten Outstanding Young Americans ), United States Jaycees ( 1969 ); member, Alabama Academy of Honor ( 1973 ); Nicholas Murray Butler Medal in Silver, Columbia University ( 1976 ); Educator of the Year, Alabama Conference of Black Mayors ( 1976 ); and the Brotherhood Award, National Conference of Christians and Jews ( 1979 ).

** NWA Alabama Tag Team Championship ( 1 time )< sup > 1 </ sup > – with Sonny Siaki / David Young ( 1 )

Young has said that he is a fan of both " Sweet Home Alabama " and Ronnie Van Zant, the lead vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

" Young has also been known to play " Sweet Home Alabama " in concert occasionally.

Army football saw success using the wishbone under head coaches Jim Young and Bob Sutton in the 1980s and early 1990s, leading to the school's only bowl appearances ( 10 – 6 win over Michigan State in the 1984 Cherry Bowl ; 31 – 29 win over Illinois in the 1985 Peach Bowl ; 29 – 28 loss to Alabama in the 1988 Sun Bowl ; and a 32 – 29 loss to Auburn in the 1996 Independence Bowl ) and its only 10-win season.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

* " Birmingham, Alabama ", a song recorded by Harry Belafonte released on the RCA compilation All-Time Greatest Hits, Vols.

Williams ' song was very similar to Charley Patton's " Going to Move to Alabama ", recorded in 1929 – which itself was at least partly derived from Jim Jackson's " Kansas City Blues " from 1927.

The event would inspire the African-American poet Dudley Randall's opus, " The Ballad of Birmingham ", as well as jazz musician John Coltrane's song " Alabama ".

Alabama played the song live with Brad Paisley at the ACM Awards in Vegas.

The band had also recorded, " My Home's in Alabama " and due to the success of that song, the band was invited to a New Faces show where several bands came together to play for DJ's and music executives.

The follow-up, " My Home's in Alabama ", became their signature song and reached the Top 20 in March 1980.

" Additionally, Alabama scored a No. 1 hit in 2011 as guest vocalists alongside Brad Paisley in his song, " Old Alabama.

They are featured in Paisley's 2011 single " Old Alabama " which sings about Alabama ; in the song they sing several lines from the chorus of " Mountain Music ".

* " Alabama " ( John Coltrane song ), a 1963 composition by John Coltrane that appears on the album Live at Birdland

* " Sweet Home Alabama ", a 1974 song by Lynyrd Skynyrd

In the song " Sweet Home Alabama " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, a verse states that:

Ardmore is the setting of a song by Old Crow Medicine Show called Alabama High-Test.

His best known works include the lyrics to songs such as " Star Dust ", " Sweet Lorraine ", " Deep Purple ", " Stars Fell on Alabama ", " Sophisticated Lady ", " Volare " ( English lyrics ), " Moonlight Serenade ", " Mr. Ghost Goes to Town ", " Sleigh Ride ", " One Morning in May ", and " Louisiana Fairy Tale ", which was the first theme song used in the PBS Production of This Old House.

These companies emphasized that their ethnicity made them the only true delineators of black song and dance, with one advertisement describing a troupe as " SEVEN SLAVES just from Alabama, who are EARNING THEIR FREEDOM by giving concerts under the guidance of their Northern friends.

Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song " National Brotherhood Week " in the line " Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek " referring ( wryly ) to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965.

* The song " Tennessee River " was recorded by the country music band Alabama in 1980.

*" Brown Sugar " ( debut live performance of the song, recorded days earlier in Alabama )

* The song " Alabama " on John Coltrane's Live at Birdland ( recorded November 18, 1963 ) served as an elegy to the bombing.

In the song, he warns " colored " people to watch out if they go to Alabama, saying that " the man gonna get ya ", and that the " Scottsboro boys tell ya what it's all about ".

Together they re-wrote the Sam Cooke song " Yeah Man " into " Sweet Soul Music ", which, at Redding's insistence, was released on the Atco-distributed label Fame Records, and was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.