Biography
The Dixie Hummingbirds (formerly known as The Sterling High School Quartet) are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today. The Hummingbirds inspired a number of imitators, such as Jackie Wilson and James Brown, who adapted the shouting style and enthusiastic showmanship of hard gospel to secular themes to help create soul music in the 1960s.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
321 releases · 20 albums · active 1955–2024
- Performance · 420
- Other credits · 9
Studios: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Malaco Studios · Morgan Studios · Regent Sound Studios, New York City
Frequent collaborators
- Paul Simon
- Harry Chapin
- Melissa Manchester
- Eric Bibb
- Marion Williams
- Mavis Staples
- Leon Redbone
- Marvin Etzioni