Al Hibbler
Al Hibbler
Person from United States
Genres: traditional pop, vocal jazz, pop music, jazz, 60s, 50s, rnb, rhythm and blues
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About Al Hibbler
He attended a school for the blind in Little Rock, Arkansas where he joined the school choir. He won an amateur talent contest in Memphis, Tennessee and at first worked with local bands, as well as starting a band of his own. In 1942 he joined a band led by Jay McShann, and the next year he joined Duke Ellington's band, replacing Herb Jeffries. He worked eight years with Ellington before becoming a soloist. Some of his singing is classified as rhythm and blues, but he is really best classified as a bridge between R&B and traditional pop music. His biggest hit was "Unchained Melody" in 1955. Other hits were "He", "11th Hour Melody", "Never Turn Back", and "After the Lights Go Low" (all in 1956). "After the Lights Go Low", sung with a put-on British accent, was his last charted hit. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Hibbler became a civil rights activist, marching with protestors and getting arrested in 1959 in New Jersey and in 1963 in Alabama. The notoriety of this activism discouraged major record labels from carrying his work, but Frank Sinatra supported him and signed him to a contract with his label, [lable]Reprise Records. However, Hibbler made very few recordings after that, occasionally doing live appearances through the 1990s. He died in April 2001 in Chicago.
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Al Hibbler — Top 21 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Hibbler | Unchained Melody | ||
| Al Hibbler | Unchained Melody | ||
| Al Hibbler | He | ||
| Al Hibbler | After The Lights Go Down Low | ||
| Al Hibbler | Silent Night | ||
| Al Hibbler | Unchained Melody | ||
| Al Hibbler | White Christmas | ||
| Al Hibbler | Don't Take Your Love From Me [1945] | ||
| Al Hibbler | After The Lights Go Down Low (LP Version) | ||
| Al Hibbler | Trees | ||
| Al Hibbler | Send Me The Pillow You Dream On | ||
| Al Hibbler | Danny Boy | ||
| Al Hibbler | This Love of Mine | ||
| Al Hibbler | Silent Night | ||
| Al Hibbler | 11th Hour Melody | ||
| Al Hibbler | After The Lights Go Down Low - Single | ||
| Al Hibbler | Ain't Nothing Wrong With That Baby | ||
| Al Hibbler | September In The Rain | ||
| Al Hibbler | Dedicated To You | ||
| Al Hibbler | After The Lights Go Down Low [1956] | ||
| Al Hibbler | Unchained Melody w Retro Café |