Donnie Fritts

Donnie Fritts

Donnie Fritts

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Top Songs

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Why Is My Day So Long
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Short End of the Stick
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Everybody's Got a Song
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Star of the Show
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Better Him Than Me

Albums

  • June (A Tribute to Arthur Alexander)

    Aug 2018 • 10 songs

  • Oh My Goodness

    Oct 2015 • 12 songs

  • Prone To Lean

    Feb 2013 • 12 songs

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Donnie Fritts

Biography

One of the architects of the famed Muscle Shoals Sound, songwriter Donnie Fritts also enjoyed success as a longtime associate of Kris Kristofferson. A native of Florence, Alabama, as a teen Fritts played drums with local acts like the Satellites and Hollis Dixon. By the late '50s he was writing and performing with the likes of Arthur Alexander, Dan Penn, and Spooner Oldham, all of them joining forces to forge the unique fusion of Southern soul, pop, country, and R&B immediately recognizable as the Muscle Shoals Sound. Fritts' early songs were recorded by performers as diverse ...
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