Today it was Sledge, a hospital orderly from northern Alabama who captured lightning with his signature song, and follow-up hits including Warm and Tender Love, Take Time to Know Her and Out of ...

When A Man Loves A Woman Sledge started out working in the cotton fields, later working at a hospital and finding his way into a record contract when a former patient introduced him to a producer.

Musician Dan Penn co-wrote numerous Southern soul classics, including Percy Sledge's 'Out of Left Field' and Aretha Franklin's 'Do Right Woman, Do Right Man.' PROVIDED PHOTO BY MIKE FICKEL/WINGED ...

Sledge was an icon of the "Muscle Shoals sound," named for the city near his hometown known since the 1960s for local recording studios where hits that shaped American pop music were recorded.