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Independent Lens | Muscle Shoals | When Percy Sledge Made it Big | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muscle-shoals
Premiering April 21, 2014. Check local listings:
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In this clip from the Independent Lens documentary Muscle Shoals, soul singer Percy Sledge recounts how he went from working (and singing) on a cotton field and in a hospital to singing in an Elks Club to being discovered by a DJ and finally making it big, starting with recordings made at FAME Studios.

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