During September and October, Sherman and Hood played cat-and-mouse in north Georgia ( and Alabama ) as Hood threatened Sherman's communications to the north.

* Alabama played Music Man guitars, and used music man amps in the early eighties.

Alongside Josh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey, Witherspoon played Melanie Carmichael, a young fashion designer who intends to marry a New York politician but must return to Alabama to divorce her childhood sweetheart, from whom she has been separated for seven years.

He played for the University of Alabama.

* B ' Ho Kirkland, born in Columbia, played for the Alabama Crimson Tide and went on to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers ( NFL ).

There, they played a show where people donated money and clothes to allow the band to make their next tour stop in Birmingham, Alabama.

Their unit passes through the port of Mobile, Alabama, where John Breen, played by John Wayne, meets the pretty Fleurette De Marchand, played by Vera Ralston, from Demopolis.

During the Civil War, this city played a large role in Alabama ’ s cotton plantation economy and about half of the residents were slaves.

The small aliens in the final scenes were played by local girls in Mobile, Alabama.

Duane Allman played on Wilson Pickett's hit version of " Hey Jude " and became the primary session guitarist for FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, recording with Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, Percy Sledge, and others.

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

* Senior Bowl, a post-season college football exhibition game played in Mobile, Alabama

Andrew Toney ( born November 23, 1957 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers from 1980 to 1988.

William Bankhead attended the University of Alabama, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and played on the university's first football team, organized in 1892.

They played their home games in Ozark, Alabama, at historic Eagle Stadium, which was constructed in 1946.

The All-American Bowl was an annual postseason college football bowl game played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama from 1977 to 1990.

All of these players, except Idonije, played college football in the U. S .; Amobi Okoye and Umenyiora played high school football in Alabama, where their families settled in their preteen years, and Caulcrick played high school football in Clymer, New York.

* PapaJohns. com Bowl, a college football bowl game played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama in January.

The GoDaddy. com Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football bowl game that has been played annually at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama since 1999.

The trophy is named for Harlon Hill, who played at Florence State Teachers College ( now the University of North Alabama ) from 1950 to 1953, where he was named an NAIA All-American in his senior year.

Since 1986 the Division II championship game has been played annually at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.

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 ".

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

* " Alabama " ( Neil Young song ), a 1972 song by Neil Young

* " 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.