Trivia / Alabama

• Chart Displacement: "My Home's in Alabama" remains one of their most popular songs despite only hitting #17, and is still better known than several of their huge list of #1 hits. On the flip side, "Jukebox in My Mind" is their longest lasting #1 hit at four weeks, but is not as iconic as, say, "Mountain Music", "Song of the South", or "Love in the First Degree". But this is because charts in The '80s were determined by submission of radio playlists, thus making it difficult for songs to stay at #1 for more than a single week; in January 1990, the country charts changed to the far more accurate Nielsen SoundScan method of digitally tracking airplay from monitored stations; "Jukebox..." was their first #1 after this switch.
• Distanced from Current Events: Since 2015, the band has re-designed several of its 1980s album covers to remove images of the Confederate flag.
• Executive Meddling: According to Herndon, he was always treated as a hired hand more than a band member; he usually only played live, and they typically employed session drummers in-studio. Apparently the label just wanted to pitch them as a quartet. Also, he didn't play on any of their albums at all after In Pictures.
• He Also Did: Teddy Gentry co-wrote "I Got You" by Shenandoah and "Lead On" by George Strait. He has also co-produced albums by the Canadian country band Emerson Drive.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Most of their pre-RCA content is out of print and now extremely hard to come by.
  • Randy Owen's 2008 Solo Side Project One on One is also out of print, and neither of its singles ("Braid My Hair" and "Like I Never Broke Her Heart") has much presence online.
• The Pete Best: The three different drummers before Mark Herndon (Bennett Vartanian until 1976; Jackie Owen for a few months in 1976; and Rick Scott until 1979). Vartanian is name-dropped in "Tar Top".
• Uncredited Role: K. T. Oslin was not credited for her guest vocal on "Face to Face".
  • Many of Rick Scott's (see above under The Pete Best) drum tracks were kept for the My Home's In Alabama album uncredited, although he did receive credit for co-writing several songs on the band's first few albums, including the #1 hit "Why Lady Why"