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SUNDAY IN THE SOUTH VIDEO
Jim’s dad, Wayne. Mike’s dad is behind him.
Springtime in Alaska might be 40 below but in Alabama it’s 70 degrees and alive with the smell of honeysuckle vines and the beautiful colors of pink, green, purple and white that God has painted on His great southern canvas.
Marty singing Sunday In the South.
It was May 1989 and we had all decided the next single was going to be ‘Sunday In the South‘, a southern anthem written by our friend Jay Booker that describes to a tee what a southern Sunday in Dixie is like. What could better describe the south than lyrics like this: ”
“A ragged rebel flag flies high above it all
Poplin’ in the wind like an angry cannon ball
Now the halls of history are cold and still
But they still smell the powder burning and they probably always will
And on the old town square under the barber shop pole
they set me up in the chair when I was four years old
I can almost hear my papa say
‘Won’t you hold still son, stop squirming around
Another southern Sunday’s coming down”
Mike’s Grandpa Ed Jackson in the video.
Wow! You ain’t just whistling Dixie there y’all. I can almost see Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler under the Magnolia trees now.
Stan Thorn
We shot the video here at the county seat in the Shoals at the historic courthouse in Tuscumbia, AL. Before the battle of Franklin in Tennessee at the end of the Civil War, this is where the northern and southern troops came through and crossed the Tennessee river. Theres a lot
of southern history here so it was only fitting that we would shoot the video here. Another local fact is that Tuscumbia is where Helen Keller’s home is located and it was here during the Civil War too. So again, we have a rich history in the area where we live.
Ralph Ezell
We were so excited about this song and the video. The local radio station had been on the air the previous day telling
everyone to come on down to the courthouse the next day and be part of it. They just asked everybody to come in their Sunday best and bring a picnic lunch for Sunday dinner-on-the-ground. We had so many friends and family in this shoot, many who are not with us anymore. My dad, Jim’s dad and my grandfather all have since left us but it is so good to go back and watch that video and remember them still alive and with us on that day.
Mike and his nice Cara over his shoulder.
You haven’t seen a Shenandoah show until you have see us perform ‘Sunday In the South’. it always puts you in ‘a place’…in a time gone by, when all was right with the world.
By the middle of August that summer, it had given us our 2nd #1 record.
Mike’s niece and nephew at the end of the video. Cara & Ryan
Jim’s baby son Jake held by his mother Judy. Jake is in his 20′s now.
