If their music has been your Soul and Inspiration, you can be inspired one last time.
If You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling, you have this chance to go and get it back.
If you have never seen the Righteous Brothers, you need to do it Just Once in My Life.
The Unchained Melody is about to be chained.
The ‘Righteous Brothers’ are on their farewell tour, and their final appearance in Alabama is on Thursday, May 29 at 7 p.m. at the Oxford Performing Arts Center.
The Righteous Brothers are an American singing duo originally formed by Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield but now comprising Medley and Bucky Heard. Medley formed the group with Hatfield in 1963. Hatfield died in 2003. He went to Rock and Roll Heaven.
The brothers’ singing was described as "blue-eyed soul.” It stuck.
Hatfield and Medley had contrasting vocal ranges. Medley sang the low baritone, and Hatfield sang the high (very high) tenor. Now, Bucky Heard is heard on the high notes.
The Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
What a marvelous venue for the brothers’ farewell to Alabama. The City of Oxford took an unused historic building and turned it into the Oxford Performing Arts Center (OPAC). The classic building had been a city hall, fire station and city jail. Millions later, it is now a 1,200-seat performing arts theater.
Details on OPAC events and tickets can be found here.
Jim ‘Zig’ Zeigler’s beat is the colorful and positive about Alabama – her people, places, events, groups and prominent deaths. He is a former Alabama Public Service Commissioner and State Auditor. You can reach him for comments at [email protected].
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