![]() ![]() In 1987, she contributed vocals to the Twila Paris album, Same Girl. and Larry Howard’s Sanctified Blues, both released in 1986. She did the same on Clarence Carter’s Dr. In 1984, she sang background vocals on Will McFarlane’s A Colony of Heaven, Steve Bassett’s eponymous album, and Sandra Kaye’s “Hard Drinkin’ Good Timin’ Woman”. She reunited with Lenny on 1983’s Say a Prayer and Gus Hardin took her “Loving You Hurts” to #32. In 1981, Ava contributed backing vocals to Billy Burnette’s Gimme You, Lou Ann Barton’s Old Enough, Levon Helm’s self-titled album, and Lenny LeBlanc’s Breakthrough. A couple of these, a remake of Squeeze’s “Another Nail for My Heart”, and “Soar Me Like an Eagle Flies”, made the cut on The Best of Patti Austin. In 1980, Ava was a member of The Shoals Sisters, which included Marie Tomlinson Clark and Cindy Richardson, and they backed Patti Austin on tracks for Body Language. Charly McClain and Johnny Rodriguez took it to #16 on the Billboard country chart a year later. She also penned and released the duet, “I Hate the Way I Love It”, with George Soule. Ava spent much of that year recording tracks with Wilson Pickett which eventually wound up on the Big Tree album, Funky Situation. Hook covered “Sharing the Night Together” and took it to #6 on the Billboard pop chart. She sang backing vocals on Mike Finnegan’s eponymous 1976 effort, and did the same on Billy Swan’s self-titled 1977 LP. Ava contributed a pair of songs to Narvel Felts’ 1976 album, Narvel the Marvel: “Baby Warm”, co-written with George Soule and, “Somebody Hold Me”, co-written with Sue Richards. In America’s bicentennial year, Ava co-penned “Sharing the Night Together” with Eddie Struzick and it was recorded by Arthur Alexander. The title tune was included on the soundtrack of the Peter Fonda film, Fighting Mad. In 1975, she released a solo album, Frustrated Housewife, which was produced by George Soule, with whom Ava regularly collaborated. Prolific singer-songwriter from Arizona who relocated to Sheffield, Alabama, and became a part of the Muscle Shoals music scene. ![]()
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