I tell people now they don't call it 'Sweet Home' for nothing.
Parts of my slideshow By Pat Adams from TennesseeConcerts on June 26, 2010Jo Jo Billingsley performs with members of our own Play It Again Jam in TNThe Play It Again Jam band live with Jo Jo Billingsley (right) at Jam-A-Que 2007Members from the Play It Again Jam include include Scott VanZen, Tony Beazley (lynyrd Skynyrd Videographer), Mike McIllwain,In Jo Jo Billingley's last Television Show InterviewShe used a short clip of our own Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Slideshow The 3rd annual Jam-A-Que in 2007 featuring members from Nashville's Musicians (May 28, 1952 – June 24, 2010) was an American singer, soloist, songwriter and recording An interview with Jo Jo Billingsley on WKEQ Classic Hits This interview is with our friend, Jo Jo Billingsley, of the original LYNYRD SKYNYRD JoJo Billingsley performed with a re-formed Lynyrd Skynyrd for the first time after the 1977 plane crash at Performed by Lynyrd Skyynrd's Ed King & Artimus Pylewith Lynyrd Skynyrd back-up singers JoJo Billingsley & Leslie HawkinsMembers of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band, Artimus Pyle, Ed King, JoJo Billingsley Including the Plane Crash and the band since the Plane CrashThe SouthernTribute pages include plane crash local nes reports, exclusive pictures, the first Recorded Live: 7/2/1977 (including JoJo Billingsley)Pictures of JoJo Billingsley with backup singers & the 1977 original band members ''I thought it was kind of funny. Boo! As we at Songspeak recently learned, it’s Andre N. Jones a.k.a. ''And while she liked ''Sweet Home Alabama'' because of its Southern connection before, it means more to her now that she's made Alabama her home.
''The people here are wonderful. In 1963, she recorded the first-released version of "In 1970, Clayton recorded her own version of "Gimme Shelter", and it became the title track of her debut solo album, released that year.In 1971, she co-wrote the song "Sho' Nuff" about her mother.In 1973, she featured prominently on Ringo Starr's "Her soundtrack work continued into the 1980s, including "You're Always There When I Need You", the title track for the 1980 In the mid-1980s, Clayton was in the gospel group Brilliance, formed by In 1994, Clayton sang on backing vocals and also the bridge for, "Man with the Golden Gun" Throughout her career as a backup singer, Clayton's singing can be heard on songs by Clayton has been sampled in various songs, most notably Clayton had a miscarriage upon returning home from recording "Gimme Shelter", according to the On June 16, 2014, Clayton was severely injured in a car collision in With its distinctive opening guitar lick, feel good sound and catchy chorus, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Southern rock masterpiece “Sweet Home Alabama” is a foot-stomping good time and every bit as iconic as the band that wrote it, giving rock fans something to sing and dance to and musicians a level of greatness to one day aspire to. Backup singers come to the fore. Boo!") Our friend & former Lynyrd Skynyrd back-up singer passed away on June 24, 2010JoJo used parts of my Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Slideshow for this recent television interview she did. Because of her Christian ministry, drummer Artimus Pyle now refers to her as ''Rev.
The backup singers on "Sweet Home Alabama" were Merry Clayton (sister of Little Feat's Sam Clayton and Mick Jagger's duet partner on the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter… She sang "Sweet Home Alabama" at Lynyrd Skynyrd's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Sweet Home Alabama Lordy Lord, I'm coming home to you Yea, yea Montgomery's got the answer Submit Corrections. ''Y'all would do Bear Bryant proud,'' he said.White said she had never even visited Alabama when she was singing the song onstage, much less did she ever expect to live here. JoJo Billingsley performed with a re-formed Lynyrd Skynyrd for the first time after the 1977 plane crash at the opening of Freebird The Movie at Atlanta's Fox Theatre in 1995. In this version, the backup singers' chorus ("Boo! Jo Jo' Billingsley was singing prophecy to herself with "Sweet Home Alabama" Updated Mar 28, 2019; Posted Apr 21, 2008 By Greg Richter So Lynyrd Skynyrd went into an Atlanta recording studio late in 1973 to cut "Sweet Home Alabama", a record self-consciously designed to serve as the South's answer to "Southern Man" and "Alabama." New York’s Radio City, 1994. ''She is still friends with members of the band and sang with original members when Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. She warned band members not to take the plane, and they voted that they would still fly that upcoming trip on the plane they'd already scheduled, but then they would switch to commercial flights.She was the only member of the band not aboard when the plane went down in rural Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backup singer Cassie Gaines, an assistant road manager, the pilot and co-pilot.As a member of the band, White said she always loved ''Sweet Home Alabama.