This video has been around for a while but it makes me laugh every time.
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This brings back memories of the music I used to listen to. And Ozark Bible College in Joplin, MO that I attended for a short time. Merry Christmas, MJA!
So cute!
Lol! That was hilarious! They were all really into it, especially “big man”. The smallest kid has personality plus. The other two guys were a bit understated, but no less entertaining.
that there was worth the price of admission
Nice post MJA. The Gospel group actually singing was one of my favorites, J. D. Sumner and The Stamps (the members came and went, but J.D. always anchored with the bass voice). In the version linked below J.D. goes an octave or more lower than in the kid’s video here, and he shows why he was known as one of the lowest natural bass voices ever.
He held the Guinness record for lowest bass voice for decades until some of the newer “gospel” groups started using electronic enhancements to amplify and enhance them “breathing” their “low” notes, but nobody could go as low as J.D. as part of a live performance quartet without the enhancements. Youtube has a lot of old videos of them and other great Southern Gospel groups like The Blackwood Brothers (whom J.D. performed with in the 50’s and 60’s), The Statesmen, The Rebels and The Prophets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMN_w_PZ4xg
Sharp boys and very good.
my sister dated one of the Blackwood Brothers. I remember them well when i was drugged years ago. Drug to Sunday morneong church, durg to sunday night service, wedsday night and any time the church doors were unlocked.
Bubba’s Brother- I just saw this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0sdY9uKaA0
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Blackwood Brothers’ How Great Thou Art. 😀
Very nice. That’s a good one!
@MJA – there are lots of wonderful old gospel songs on youtube and you’ve found one of them. The bass in this one was “Big Jim” Hall and he was pretty good in his own right.
The high tenor on the far left is Bill Shaw from Abbeville, SC (about an hour from where I grew up). He’s still living and (as a couple of years ago) was still performing locally. He still sounds pretty good …. especially for a guy that is almost 100 year old.
I love these old groups if for no other reason that all they used was a piano and their voices for the most part. The harmonies were wonderful to my ear.
The first link below is for the Blackwood Brothers prior to the plane crash in 1954. The bass and baritone (Bill Lyles and R.W. Blackwood – the 2 guys on the far right) were killed in a plane crash prior to one of their concerts while they were practicing takeoffs and landings (they were the pilots as well). The high tenor (Dan Husky) was so shaken up that he quit traveling for quartets at all and refused to fly ever again.
The group was quite popular at the time and James Blackwood (second tenor and the shortest man in the group) had to replace all of them in short order and the new group consisted of Bill Shaw at high tenor, James Blackwood at second tenor, Cecil Blackwood (the nephew of James and R.W.) at baritone and J.D. Sumner at bass.
Here’s the original group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NMXcsvcCAY
And the group after the crash (J.D. wrote this song as well as 500+ more that were recorded):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkv3Xg4-uA
I just love these old songs LOL.
Cool! T/Y. I will check them out.
Stay tuned, because I’ve got another lineup of Christmas tunes coming in a few hours. 😉