{"id":5205,"date":"2021-03-30T18:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2021-03-30T18:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:05:53","slug":"sam-fraizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/sam-fraizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fraizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Birmingham&#8217;s own Blues &#8211; Gospel &#8211; Country singer Sam Frazier passed away on March 23, 2021<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sam Frazier, Jr. (b. Aug 12, 1943; d. March 23, 2021) a Birmingham singer who sang the blues, RnB, gospel and country, whose career spans recording in NYC, Birmingham and Los Angeles, Sam came up in the Edgewater neighborhood of Birmingham, played a blues harp and guitar with Johnny Otis in L.A; also sang with the Golden Hummingbirds, a local gospel group, and sang and wrote country music, performing on the Country Boy Eddie early morning TV show on WBRC Channel 6 in Birmingham for some 14 years, the first African American on that show. Up until his recent illness in 2020, he was still performing with his band around Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mr. Sam Frazier will be laid to rest on Saturday April 3rd, 2021. Funeral Services will be held at St. John Baptist Church Edgewater, 7313 Arabia Ave, Birmingham, AL 35224.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Services will begin at 1pm. Services will also be live streamed via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertsfuneralservices.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert&#8217;s Funeral Home website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Public viewing will be held at Robert&#8217;s Funeral Home on Friday, April 2nd 2021 starting from 1pm till 6pm. Location: 1337 Bessemer Rd, Birmingham, AL 35208. Mask\/SD will be required.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Final resting location will be at Carver Memorial Gardens, 1020 Minor Pkwy, Birmingham, AL 35224.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham&#8217;s own Blues &#8211; Gospel &#8211; Country singer Sam Frazier passed away on March 23, 2021 Sam Frazier, Jr. (b. Aug 12, 1943; d. March 23, 2021) a Birmingham singer who sang the blues, RnB, gospel and country, whose career spans recording in NYC, Birmingham and Los Angeles, Sam came up in the Edgewater neighborhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newletters","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-1lX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}