Terry Woodford graduated from Sheffield High School in 1960. He was a songwriter and recording artist for Fame Recording Studios and publishing company from 1963 to 1968. In 1969 he establish and developed Muscle Shoals Sound Recording Studio’s publishing and production companies. In 1973 he left Muscle Shoals Sound and started a production and publishing company with Fame studio keyboard player Clayton Ivey. From 1970-1986 Terry produced or co-produced and engineered 47 albums and over 80 singles. In 1974 Terry and Clayton were signed as the first white exclusive record producers for Motown Records. They co-produced, wrote and/or published songs for The Temptations, The Commodores, The Supremes, and Thelma Houston’s Grammy Hall of Fame record “You ‘ve Been Doing Wrong For So Long It Just Comes Natural.” In 1975, Terry Co-founded the first four-year degree program in the US to teach the ins and outs of the Music business at the University of North Alabama. In 1976 Terry and Clayton left Motown and built Wishbone Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals. Later that year they produced, wrote and published “The Angel in Your Arms” by a girl trio called “Hot”. The million selling 45 single held the record for being on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts longer than any other song for 13 years. The production duo also produced records or published songs for Hank Williams Jr., Barbra Mandrell, Alabama, Mac Mc Anally, Jimmy Buffet, Roy Orbison, John Kaye of (Steppenwolf), Anne Murray, Wayne Newton, Brenda Lee and many others.
In 1985, at the request of a daycare provider, Terry created Heartbeat Lullabies. The music combines lullabies with a human heartbeat as the rhythm. When tested in a hospital newborn nursery, nurses reported that 94% of crying babies were calmed to sleep by the music in less than two minutes. He later discovered that the heartbeat lullabies also worked to calm anxious dogs. After the American Boarding Kennels Association confirmed that this worked to calm dogs, he began producing Canine Lullabies CDs. Heartbeat lullabies have also been used to help reduce anxiety in people with Dementia. Woodford is a recognized therapeutic music expert.
