Selma

Bloch Park is a baseball stadium in Selma, Alabama, United States. The Selma Cloverleafs of the independent Southeastern League of Professional... Baseball played here before folding prior to the 2003 season. Professional baseball was also played here in the 1940s-60s as part of the Alabama-Florida League. The park features a small, covered grandstand that contains all bench seating and seats about 1,500. It is currently used for high school and American Legion baseball.
more

Bill Moss was an American Gospel music singer. Moss was born in 1931 in Selma, Alabama and sang in a choir led by his sister the late Dr. Mattie... Moss Clark. He moved to Detroit, Michigan and formed The Celestials with his wife Essie Moss. Bill Moss & the Celestials would perform with acts such as The Staple Singers and Mighty Clouds of Joy at venues such as the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The Celestials were one of the first gospel groups to use electric instruments. Their best known songs include "Turn It Over to Jesus", "Everything is Going to be Alright" and "The Way We Use to Have Church." He was inducted into the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Moss' two sons are currently involved in Gospel music: Bill Moss Jr. and James . His sister, Mattie Moss Clark, and nieces, The Clark Sisters, are also Gospel music singers.
more

Oscar Toney, Jr. was an American soul singer. Toney was raised in Columbus, Georgia, and sang gospel in churches while young. In his teens, he... joined a gospel group called The Sensational Melodies of Joy, and after this joined secular group called The Searchers , who released a few singles between 1958 and 1961. In 1964, Toney released a solo single, "Can it All Be Love", on King Records, but did not garner any widespread notice. Toney then began working with the record producer Papa Don Schroeder, who used Toney as a backup replacement for James & Bobby Purify when one of the two singers was unavailable for a live performance. Schroeder had Toney signed to Bell Records in 1967, and his first single, a cover of "For Your Precious Love" by Jerry Butler & the Impressions, was produced by Chips Moman. The tune would be the first and most successful of Toney's four chart hits. His last single was 1969's "Down in Texas" b/w "Aint That True Love", which failed to chart, and Toney left Bell when Schroeder quit the music industry.
more

Dr. Mattie Moss-Clark was an American gospel choir director and the mother of The Clark Sisters, a world-renowned gospel vocal group. Clark is... credited for creating the three-part harmony , a technique which is prevalent among gospel choirs today. Mattie Juliet Moss was born the seventh of nine children to ministers Fred and Mattie J. Moss in Selma, Alabama. Moss began playing piano at six. By twelve, she had become the musician for her mother's services at the Church of Christ and Prayer and traveled with her mother to play at mission services, a trend she passed on to daughter Twinkie. After high school, she attended Selma University and received training in classical music and choral singing. Moss moved to Detroit in her early twenties to be with her sister Sybil Burke and became a member of Greater Love Tabernacle Church of God in Christ. There, under the leadership of Bishop W. Rimson, she was baptized in the Holy Ghost and subsequently became the Minister of Music.
more

Bill Moss was an American Gospel music singer. Moss was born in 1931 in Selma, Alabama and sang in a choir led by his sister the late Dr. Mattie... Moss Clark. He moved to Detroit, Michigan and formed The Celestials with his wife Essie Moss. Bill Moss & the Celestials would perform with acts such as The Staple Singers and Mighty Clouds of Joy at venues such as the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The Celestials were one of the first gospel groups to use electric instruments. Their best known songs include "Turn It Over to Jesus", "Everything is Going to be Alright" and "The Way We Use to Have Church." He was inducted into the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Moss' two sons are currently involved in Gospel music: Bill Moss Jr. and James . His sister, Mattie Moss Clark, and nieces, The Clark Sisters, are also Gospel music singers.
more

Lillian Lehman is an American actress most notably recognized from her recurring role as Lena Hart in NBC's soap opera Sunset Beach, and as Dr.... Joyce Meadows on ABC's General Hospital. Other roles include various guest roles on TV, as well as a starring role in Tenafly and Fay. Lehman is an alumnus of California State University Northridge with a degree in Theatre. She also has many film credits such as Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep and the recent Evan Almighty. A few of her TV credits include Magnum P.I. , General Hospital , ER, Cold Case, Married with Children episode "I'll See You in Court" and most recently a recurring role as Judge Tiano on the new TNT hit series, The Closer. She has filmed hundreds of on-camera and voice-over commercials. Lehman was married to John Amos. They have two children.
more

Gregg Hale is an American movie producer, best known for producing the Blair Witch Project. He was born in Selma, Alabama but considers Henderson,... Kentucky his hometown. He went to Western Kentucky University for a year, before dropping out to serve for four years in the U.S. Army. After leaving the service, he moved to Orlando, Florida where he went to film school at Valencia Community College and the University of Central Florida. He then worked as a set dresser and prop man on features and TV shows in Orlando and LA for ten years before producing Blair Witch Project. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Adrian, and daughter, Amelia, and son, Deckard.
more

Randall Atcheson is an American concert pianist. Randall Atcheson, the son of a Southern Baptist minister, was raised in Maplesville, Alabama and... Clanton, Alabama. He began studying piano at the age of six and added the organ at the age of nine. By the time he was 12 years old, he was enrolled in the Samford University School of Music in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1971, Atcheson transferred to New York city's Juilliard School where he went on to become the first student allowed to pursue and receive simultaneous degrees in piano and organ performance. He made his New York public performance debut at the Juilliard's Alice Tully Hall playing both instruments. In the course of his career, Atcheson has performed at major venues internationally, including the Notre Dame Cathedral, Salle Gaveau and the American Embassy in Paris, France, Blenheim Palace in England, as well as 10 performances at Carnegie Hall. Atcheson was named a Steinway Artist in 1991.
more