Midnight Music Confessions

The Osmonds’ Bad Apple

It fell on Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Terry Barr
4 min readJun 1, 2023

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Photo by Olivier Miche on Unsplash

It feels revelatory.

No, not The Osmonds and their 1971 smash hit, “One Bad Apple,” but the fact that they recorded it at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which, along with its sister studio The Muscle Shoals Sound, also produced such recording stars as The Staple…

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Terry Barr

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.