阿拉巴马盲童(The Blind Boys of Alabama、Blind Boys of Alabama),或譯阿拉巴馬盲眼男孩,是1939年建立的一个美国乐队,五届格莱美奖得主。其前身是1939年阿拉巴马黑人盲人研究所(Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind)的一个唱诗班,由黑人盲人组成,其成员经过了多次变动。该乐队主打福音音乐、藍調、靈歌等“灵魂音乐”,目的是鼓励残障人士热爱生活[1]。
^ 2.02.12.22.3Boyer, Horace C. How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. Montgomery, Alabama: Elliott & Clark. 1995: 201. ISBN 9781880216194. In 1937 Clarence Fountain(b. 1929) was an elementary school student singing in the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind Glee Club. Fountain and a friend, Johnny Fields(b. 1927), selected George Scott(b. 1929), Olice Thomas(b. 1926), and Velma Bozman Traylor(1923–47) from the Glee Club and formed the Happy Land Jubilee Singers.
^Irvine, David. Fields' funeral today. The Daily DispatchXCV (271) (Henderson, North Carolina). November 19, 2009: 1A [December 1, 2019]. (原始内容存档于2022-04-09). Henderson lost one of its shining stars when Johnny Fields died on Nov 12.
^Obituaries. AL.com. Alabama Media Group. 2012 [December 1, 2019]. (原始内容存档于2020-09-20). J. T. Hutton, age 88, a native of Birmingham, passed away July 27, 2012.