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Alabama Music Hall of Fame Achiever
AVA ALDRIDGE
Instruments: Vocals, Songwriter
Date of Birth: 1946
Place of Birth: Arizona
Home:Sheffield, Alabama
1993
Music Creator's
Award
A talented songwriter and vocalist, Ava has worked in the Shoals area since the early 1970's. During the 1970s Ava was signed to MGM and MCA Records as a recording artist. Her work as a background vocalist can be heard on recordings by Hank Williams, Jr., Crystal Gayle, Mac Davis, T. Graham Brown, Wilson Pickett, Joan Baez, Narvel Felts, Billy Vera, Percy Sledge, Roy Clark, Lenny LeBlanc, Steve Forbert, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ronnie Milsap, Delbert McClinton, Patti Austin, Amy Grant and many more. As a songwriter she has had over 150 of her songs recorded.
Ava Aldridge has served as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Muscle Shoals Music Association. She organized the first Songwriter Workshops in the area sponsored by the Music Association.
Chart Songs as a Songwriter
| Song Title | Recording Artist | Chart* | Year |
| Treat Her Right | Sawyer Brown | 3 | 1996 |
| Sharing The Night Together | Dr. Hook | 6 | 1979 |
| Somebody Hold Me | Narvel Felts | 10 | 1976 |
| I Hate The Way I Love It | Johnny Rodriguez & Charly McClain | 16 | 1979 |
| Real Cowboy | Billy "Crash" Craddock | 20 | 1980 |
| Sweet Sensuous Feelings | Sue Richards | 25 | 1976 |
| Loving You Hurts | Gus Hardin | 32 | 1983 |
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