Muscle Shoals musicians Dan Penn (center), Spooner Oldham (top left), and Donnie Fritts (bottom right) first began playing together in a band called The Mark V, later Dan Penn and the Pallbearers.
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Muscle Shoals musicians Dan Penn (center), Spooner Oldham (top left), and Donnie Fritts (bottom right) first began playing together in a band called The Mark V, later Dan Penn and the Pallbearers.