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. FAME has worked in the studio with some of the Greatest artists in Rock music history. Artists such as Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Lou Rawls, Otis Redding, Candi Staton, Clarence Carter, the Osmonds, Jerry Reed, Alabama, Mac Davis, the Gatlin Brothers, Bobbie Gentry and many others. 

More recently FAME has recorded projects for The Gregg Allman Band, Alicia Keys, Demi Lovato, Ann Wilson, Third Day, The Turnpike Troubadours, Michael McDonald, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Aloe Blacc, Chord Overstreet, Keb Mo, John Paul White, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Matisyahu, Band of Horses, Drive by Truckers, Bettye Lavette, Cyril Neville, the Civil Wars, Anderson East and Jamey Johnson to name a few.

In the last 60 plus years, FAME has been involved in recording or publishing records that have sold over 400 million copies world wide.

Another FAME entity, FAME Publishing has had their songwriter’s SONGS recorded by many of the greatest artists in history boasting Seven Song of the year awards and hundreds of ASCAP & BMI most performed songs of the year awards.