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Separated at birth?

2009-01-08T10:39:28-06:00

Is it just me? Every time I see this pic of Harold Timmons I wonder if these two were separated at birth? :D

http://www.gospelgallery.com/harold1.jpg
http://celebrity.lovetoknow.com/images/Celebrity/thumb/8/80/John_ohurley.jpg/200px-John_ohurley.jpg

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a good picture of the second, but he was on Seinfeld and is on Family Feud.

Need some recommendations on booking…

2009-01-08T22:48:04-06:00

I’m in charge of booking a group for my church homecoming. We’ve usually had regional and local acts but the last couple years we had The Dove Bro’s year before last and Gold City last year.

Our people really like the quartet sound the best. I personally don’t care if it’s quartet, trio, mixed group, etc. I’d like a pro group that will give us our money’s worth. Gold City was phenom. Dove Bro’s did ok, but they seemed to be in a hurry and really rushed things…

Any recommendations?

What Past Favorite Vinyl LP Would You Like To See On CD?

2008-12-29T17:16:51-06:00

Recently I made a post about the so-called “lp resurrection”. Well, it got me thinking…are there any lps and/or cassettes that you would like to see reissued on cd? None of the big SG labels in the 70s and 80s have reissued all of their catalog on cd. So I will start..

01 1981 Gold City Qt’s “I’ve Got A Feeling”
02 1983 Gold City Qt’s “I Think I’ll Read It Again”
03 1984 Gold City Qt’s “Walk On”
04 1985 Gold City Qt’s “Sing With The Angels”

01 1975-1979 Florida Boys lps with Jerry Trammell. So far, I have only seen one reissued: “Vintage Gospel” from 1977.

01 1980-1988 all Inspirations lps from that time period.

01 1975-1988 All Heavenbound lps from that time period.

Any body else have any suggestions?

Is anyone going to Mobile AL Frank Arnold Sing Jan Jan 8.9.10

2009-01-03T19:55:14-06:00

Just wondering if anyone is going to the sing. My husband and I are going.

bonnie

Gospel Music promoter left town w/o paying bills

2009-01-08T09:11:14-06:00

Link to the story:
http://www.wxii12.com/news/18430821/detail.html

This website has all of The Oak Ridge Boys gospel on cd!! Check it out!!!

2009-01-07T21:56:15-06:00

I found a website that has all of the Oak Ridge Boys old gospel lps on cd. I ordered “Performance”. It sounds great and came with the originsal artwork… First class all the way. Everyone check it out!!! Let me know what you think.. The link is below

http://www.oaksgospelvinyloncd.com/

Fan Favorite Artist of the Year

2009-01-07T13:35:42-06:00

SGN is now taking nominations for the Fan Favorite Artist of the Year category in the 2009 SGN Music Awards.

You can vote for your favorite artist of 2008 by clicking on the following link and placing a nomination:

http://sogospelnews.com/index/site/fanfavorite

Nominations will be accepted through January 20, 2009.

Nominees in all 24 categories will be announced on January 21, 2009. Voting in all the categories will run from February 1-February 14, 2009.

The SGN Music Awards Celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 in Smyrna, TN at River of Life Church. Make plans now to attend!

Song info for I’ll Be There

2009-01-07T13:24:52-06:00

Would anyone have the publishing or artist info for a song entitled, “I’ll Be There.” Here are some of the lyrics

Some of the Chorus
I’ll be there when they crown Him, King of Glory
I’ll be there when they sing redemptions song

Thanks for any help

The Imperials - still doing much touring?

2009-01-06T18:02:31-06:00

Hey everyone!

I have been by the Imperials site numerous times since the summer when Scott Allen and Perry Jones were hired. I havent heard any news from them since, and I noticed that for concerts, they only have a few listed - basically a couple in Jan, a few in Feb, and 2 in June. Are they winding things down, or is it a matter of them just being too busy to update?

Dave

What Long-time group has best held on to their former glory?

2008-11-19T14:59:15-06:00

There are many groups whose name has been around almost since southern gospel has existed. Many of those names still belong to touring groups but generally none of these groups has a founding member, and even some don’t have a long-term member still with them.

The Blackwood Brothers of today don’t have James, RW or even Cecil. They have Jimmy, who some considered a shadow of his father.

The Stamps of today have Ed Enoch and a bunch of young fellas that nobody has ever heard of. As far as I can tell this new group hasn’t produced any albums and hardly tours at all. JD Sumner is gone, and with him went the Stamps, it seems.

The Melody Boys are still truckin’ along, but Gerald Williams can’t seem to keep the same four men together for longer than two years tops.

The Florida Boys come closest to holding on to their glory the longest, but when Les, Glen and Darrell retired for good, a completely new group took over the name, but this new group consisted of people whose names were never connected with the FB’s before. It was almost the same as if Andrew Ishee, Squire Parsons, Jay Parrack, Mark Trammell and Chris West got together and started calling themselves the Statesmen.

The Palmetto State Quartet, the Kingsmen, the Dixie Echoes and the Inspirations probably come the closest, and I’m kinda stretching even here because as long-lived as they are, the DE’s and the Insp’s haven’t been around anywhere near as long as the other groups I’ve mentioned.

That being said:

The PSQ is still a name people talk about, and has managed to successfully reinvent itself several times, and is to my mind easily the oldest group still thought of as a success. Somehow they managed not to get identified as One Man and his Backups like some other groups have, but it can be argued that they are still not what they used to be.

The Kingsmen still get people to come see their shows and still produce albums that people buy, and still have their long-term bass singer with them, but many people feel that the current group is a shadow of its former self and without Jim Hamill can never truly be the Kingsmen.

The Dixie Echoes still have a healthy following, and their fans love what the current group is doing, but one has to admit that this group will probably never achieve the heights of popularity they had while Dale Shelnut was still alive.

The Inspirations are an anomaly. For longer than almost any other group can claim, they hung on to many of their founding members. Even Jack Laws stuck around long after “retiring” and Archie Watkins is probably the longest-lasting tenor with one group in SG history. They even still has the original founder. I gotta say, though, the Inspirations might as well change their name to the Institutions because part of their popularity stems from how they never change despite the ever-changing face of gospel music.

There are some younger groups, such as the GVB and Gold City, who still pack ‘em in, but compared to the groups I’ve already mentioned, these people are children.

Are there any I’ve missed. I admit I’m hardly the expert here.