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Ralph Peer
Ralph Peer
Talent scout, recording engineer and record producer
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
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Luther Magby
Luther Magby
American singer
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Will Shade
Will Shade
African American Memphis blues musician
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Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
American recording artist; rockabilly musician, songwriter
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Porter Grainger
Porter Grainger
American musician
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Bukka White
Bukka White
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
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Jake Hess
Jake Hess
American singer
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Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
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Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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María Grever
María Grever
Mexican-American musician, songwriter, conductor
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Calvin Newborn
Calvin Newborn
American guitarist
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Robert Wilkins
Robert Wilkins
American country blues guitarist and singer
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
American singer and actor (1935–1977)
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Fannie May Goosby
Fannie May Goosby
American singer
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Ford Dabney
Ford Dabney
American conductor and songwriter
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The Jordanaires
The Jordanaires
American vocal group; back-up singers for Elvis Presley
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Luther Ingram
Luther Ingram
American R&B and soul singer-songwriter
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Memphis Jug Band
Memphis Jug Band
band
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Marc Cohn
Marc Cohn
American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician
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Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart
American TV evangelist
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Furry Lewis
Furry Lewis
blues guitarist and songwriter
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Ernest Stoneman
Ernest Stoneman
American singer-songwriter
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Al Green
Al Green
American singer
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Frank Stokes
Frank Stokes
American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel
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Rabbit Brown
Rabbit Brown
American blues guitarist and composer
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Otis Clay
Otis Clay
American R&B and soul singer
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Doris Akers
Doris Akers
Music composer, arranger and singer
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David Phelps
David Phelps
American musician
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Frankie Trumbauer
Frankie Trumbauer
American musician
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Victor Wainwright
Victor Wainwright
American blues pianist, singer and songwriter
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The Blackwood Brothers
The Blackwood Brothers
American southern gospel quartet
A. C. and Mamie Forehand
American gospel musicians

A. C. and Mamie Forehand

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American gospel musicians
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A. C. (also, "Asey" or "Asa") Forehand and (Blind) Mamie Forehand were husband and wife American gospel musicians. They recorded four songs for Victor Records in 1927. A. C. is credited with the two songs recorded on February 25, and Mamie with the two recorded on February 28 – according to which one of them sang, but both played on all four: A. C. guitar and harmonica, Mamie an instrument variously identified as triangle or finger cymbals.

A. C. was born in Columbus, Georgia on August 9, 1890 (according to his second wife, Frances) or 1893 (according to the Social Security Death Index). He lost his sight in 1904. Mamie is said to have been born on June 8, 1895; she too was blind. In the 1920 Census, A. C. gave his age as 29 (which is consistent with the 1890 birth date) and his profession as "None". Mamie was registered as being 23, and their daughter Rideth Mae as being three years old. The family was at that time residing in Birmingham, Alabama.

Around 1930, the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Mamie died; and in 1936, A. C. married Frances Forest (born July 5, 1920 in New Orleans), a blind pianist and organist. In the 1960s, the couple were active in the Church of God in Christ. A. C. died on May 9, 1972 and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Memphis, in an unmarked grave. Frances outlived him.