Great quartet. It is so good watching these videos from the old times when people dress different than today. Their hair style, their voice were different than today. Only one thing was the same:praise God through the music.
wally had the oak ridge quartet, he sold the name to smitty gatlin in the late 50's. mr gatlin sang with the group till duane joined in 1966. this looks to be about 1967 as far as the video goes.
What a find! I can't get enough of the old Oaks lineup from the '60s, best sounding group they ever had from 1943 to the present. You got anything with Smitty Gatlin in the group?
Fowler moved to Nashville, and from 1946-50 became a regular part of The Prince Albert Show segment of the Grand Ole Opry on NBC Radio. In 1948, he launched his first all-night gospel sing, popularizing a format that would blanket the South over the next two decades. Originating from Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium and later taken to other major cities across the region, each show featured many of the day's premier Southern gospel quartets.[7] Fowler's innate promotional genius took gospel music to a much larger audience than ever before.
tenor Willie Wynn, Duane Allen Lead, William Golden Baritone, Herman Harper Bass Singer, what a great Gospel Quartet bursting with that southern Gospel Quartet style back in those days. Why did they haft to fool with country music many people asked through the years?
Because they were having trouble earning a living, plus they were catching a lot of grief from gospel audiences because they let their hair grow out a little.
@@hankgillette they was clean cut shaved here neat hair they sort of left the traditional style of southern gospel got into contemporary gospel grew beards & long hair then it went down hill and went from Heart Warming Records to Columbia Records who didn't focus on promoting gospel music quit dressing up folks didn't like that neither after that didn't work they tried county music. They finally made it. Was put on ABC/MCA Records! Until years later went @ signed to RCA then the guy that sign them to RCA quit & the new guy didn't wanna promote Oak Ridge Boys Concerts wanted to focus promoting & push Alabama Concerts who had been established with RCA for years already. I'd thought they'd been enough room for both of them to thrive. Recently Alabama & The Oak Ridge Boys got together to record a few songs together. I been looking for it can't wait to hear it. First time they ever recorded together.
Also Tommy Fairchild was the pianist at that time and by the early 80s Tommy's son Ronnie became the Oaks pianist and band leader which he is still in that position to this day
Sérgio de Macedo Mattos No, it is Herman Harper, Rustygoodman was w/His Bros.Howard, Sam, Bobby,and Sister-in-Law Vestal Goodman, She was Married to Howard, comprising the Happy Goodman Family. ! Bobby was Mainly a Musician, Bro.Ernie Goodman was the Drummer, 'til Howard & Vestal's Son, Ricky got Old Enough to Took over as Drummer for the Group.
I've been asked to sing this song at a funeral service on Wednesday (Oct 14), and I'm having trouble finding sheet music. Does anyone out there have something they can scan and email? The soundtrack seems to be unavailable. TIA~
didnt they have a member called wally fowler or something?? i looked at the members before richard and they were all thr same but the wally fowler guy was new to me unless google screwed up but it said the fowler guy WAS in the group:/
Paupers Budget yes Duane Allen Lead, to the right of him the best dressed looking one of them back then was William Lee Golden before he lost his Razer. He was always the sharpest dressed one out of the whole bunch back then. He really wasn't that great at singing the part they claim. Many said he was real arrogant back then too. He replaced Big Jim Hamill, Jim Hamill went back to the Rebels Quartet. They claim Jim was hard to get along with. Bill Golden talked them into getting rid of Jim. Then he replaced Jim. We all know Jim Hamill later put the Kingsmen on the map.
*TheShospitali* yeah I see it now at 0:02 they are the two in the middle with Lee on your right and Duane on the left. My sons mother got mad at me when I said the Oak Ridge boys were way over 50 years old. She said that they got started in the early to mid 70's. I told her that she only knows the Country Oak Lineup but the Gospel started way earlier. She likes the current lineup and to her that is the only group she knows. . .Pure amature. . .LOL
In this video I see Bill Golden, now known as William Lee Golden, (Here he is 2nd from the right.)very much as he appeared on that singular day in late 1966 or early 1967 when he came by to visit his Uncle John P. Morgan (one of his mother's [Rutha Mae Morgan Golden's] four brothers) to meet me, and to see his new-born first cousin, John's and my daughter whom we named Valerie Letitia Morgan. [Had my child been a boy instead of a girl, I had John's permission to name the baby Arthur Frank Morgan (in honor of the baby's two great-grandfathers, Arthur Morgan, and my own dad, Dr. Frank K. Haynes). After about a two-hour visit with us, and concluding a view of our precious, beautiful and very long thick brown-haired, brown-eyed daughter with skin as fair as that of the fairest of the fair, who was in her roll-around metal bassinet, and accepting our hospitality of my quickly prepared lunch, Bill Golden bid the three of us "Adieu". I never saw Bill Golden again in person. But because I was a high-school English teacher, Rutha Mae used to send me copies of her poems for my perusal and suggestions--Christian poems that she wrote to be sung by the Oak Ridge Boys. Back in those day, as I recall it now, the Oak Ridge Boys sang only Christian songs. Rutha Mae would also send me the group's recordings (on records back in those days), which I was thrilled to receive.
I didn't like quartets when I was a kid and don't like them today, personally I'm glad it left the planet.I love the Oaks today and sure glad they aren't the 1966 -67version.Just for the record I like my buddy WLG as a 2023 mountain man.
I love this song, the Oak Ridge Boys do a excellent job singing this song.
herman harper was a such a good bass singer. his resonance is amazing.
Then he got sick of being on the road and went home and started a talent agency.
Great quartet. It is so good watching these videos from the old times when people dress different than today. Their hair style, their voice were different than today. Only one thing was the same:praise God through the music.
They were at their best as gospel singers with this group.
Look at them 😍 so young and well done up. Still beautiful as ever to hear.
This song and group both are awesome.
Can you believe it, William Lee Golden here too looking clean-cut.
This is a great song. It is hard to believe that two men in the middle are Duane Allen & Bill Golden. Can't get enough of this song.
Bass is Herman Harper of Portland fountain head community. He had several brothers and a sister all Portland panthers.
Oh my goodness. Thank you. Little Willie in this one.
@hondarideralex To say the least..He was UNREAL..He is what bass should sound like!
At last i found this lovely song, many thanks
That was amazing!
wally had the oak ridge quartet, he sold the name to smitty gatlin in the late 50's. mr gatlin sang with the group till duane joined in 1966. this looks to be about 1967 as far as the video goes.
You must remember W.L. G. dinnae start growing the Beard until the Late '70's !
Now that's Quartet singing.
@CadillacL Ah ha, I see. Thanks a lot. God Bless You.
William Lee had a 50's Elvis hair doo
A lot of gospel singers did their hair that way😮
What a find! I can't get enough of the old Oaks lineup from the '60s, best sounding group
they ever had from 1943 to the present. You got anything with Smitty Gatlin in the group?
@sheltv100 William Lee Golden. The 3rd goin from left-right.
Wally Fowler originated the group is my information.
l thought that was Willie Wynn!!!
Hard to Believe Duane Allen has been w/ O.R.B.'s since '66 !
Fowler moved to Nashville, and from 1946-50 became a regular part of The Prince Albert Show segment of the Grand Ole Opry on NBC Radio. In 1948, he launched his first all-night gospel sing, popularizing a format that would blanket the South over the next two decades. Originating from Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium and later taken to other major cities across the region, each show featured many of the day's premier Southern gospel quartets.[7] Fowler's innate promotional genius took gospel music to a much larger audience than ever before.
Don't forget STATESMEN Founder & Piano Player HOVIE LISTER !
Which one of them grew out their hair at a very long length?
Bill Golden sure did have alot of hair on his head in the 1960's
tenor Willie Wynn, Duane Allen Lead, William Golden Baritone, Herman Harper Bass Singer, what a great Gospel Quartet bursting with that southern Gospel Quartet style back in those days. Why did they haft to fool with country music many people asked through the years?
Because they were having trouble earning a living, plus they were catching a lot of grief from gospel audiences because they let their hair grow out a little.
It was a Financial Decision, The LURE of FAME & 💲💸💲💸💸💲
@@hankgillette they was clean cut shaved here neat hair they sort of left the traditional style of southern gospel got into contemporary gospel grew beards & long hair then it went down hill and went from Heart Warming Records to Columbia Records who didn't focus on promoting gospel music quit dressing up folks didn't like that neither after that didn't work they tried county music. They finally made it. Was put on ABC/MCA Records! Until years later went @ signed to RCA then the guy that sign them to RCA quit & the new guy didn't wanna promote Oak Ridge Boys Concerts wanted to focus promoting & push Alabama Concerts who had been established with RCA for years already. I'd thought they'd been enough room for both of them to thrive. Recently Alabama & The Oak Ridge Boys got together to record a few songs together. I been looking for it can't wait to hear it. First time they ever recorded together.
Also Tommy Fairchild was the pianist at that time and by the early 80s Tommy's son Ronnie became the Oaks pianist and band leader which he is still in that position to this day
I believe the Bass singer is Herman Harper i'm not totally for sure but if it is he went to school with my grandmother
The bass singer is RUSTY GOODMAN
Sérgio de Macedo Mattos Nope, not Rusty, it is Herman.
+Sérgio de Macedo Mattos No, the bass singer is NOT RUSTY GOODMAN!
Sérgio de Macedo Mattos No, it is Herman Harper, Rustygoodman was w/His Bros.Howard, Sam, Bobby,and Sister-in-Law Vestal Goodman, She was Married to Howard, comprising the Happy Goodman Family. ! Bobby was Mainly a Musician, Bro.Ernie Goodman was the Drummer, 'til Howard & Vestal's Son, Ricky got Old Enough to Took over as Drummer for the Group.
@@dutchyboy66 Rusty Goodman was a bass singer with the Plainsmen Quartet before he joined his brothers and Vestal in the Happy Goodman Family.
@sheltv100 God bless u2 :)
I've been asked to sing this song at a funeral service on Wednesday (Oct 14), and I'm having trouble finding sheet music. Does anyone out there have something they can scan and email? The soundtrack seems to be unavailable. TIA~
didnt they have a member called wally fowler or something?? i looked at the members before richard and they were all thr same but the wally fowler guy was new to me unless google screwed up but it said the fowler guy WAS in the group:/
You do not know who WALLY FOWLER was? The person that made Southern Gospel world famous?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Fowler
Hard to belive thats the same hairy guy with the beard.
Just imagine if the current lineup of the Oaks was this lineup. . .
Half of them are.
Is the two in the middle also current members?
Paupers Budget yes Duane Allen Lead, to the right of him the best dressed looking one of them back then was William Lee Golden before he lost his Razer. He was always the sharpest dressed one out of the whole bunch back then. He really wasn't that great at singing the part they claim. Many said he was real arrogant back then too. He replaced Big Jim Hamill, Jim Hamill went back to the Rebels Quartet. They claim Jim was hard to get along with. Bill Golden talked them into getting rid of Jim. Then he replaced Jim. We all know Jim Hamill later put the Kingsmen on the map.
*TheShospitali* yeah I see it now at 0:02 they are the two in the middle with Lee on your right and Duane on the left. My sons mother got mad at me when I said the Oak Ridge boys were way over 50 years old. She said that they got started in the early to mid 70's. I told her that she only knows the Country Oak Lineup but the Gospel started way earlier. She likes the current lineup and to her that is the only group she knows. . .Pure amature. . .LOL
In this video I see Bill Golden, now known as William Lee Golden, (Here he is 2nd from the right.)very much as he appeared on that singular day in late 1966 or early 1967 when he came by to visit his Uncle John P. Morgan (one of his mother's [Rutha Mae Morgan Golden's] four brothers) to meet me, and to see his new-born first cousin, John's and my daughter whom we named Valerie Letitia Morgan. [Had my child been a boy instead of a girl, I had John's permission to name the baby Arthur Frank Morgan (in honor of the baby's two great-grandfathers, Arthur Morgan, and my own dad, Dr. Frank K. Haynes). After about a two-hour visit with us, and concluding a view of our precious, beautiful and very long thick brown-haired, brown-eyed daughter with skin as fair as that of the fairest of the fair, who was in her roll-around metal bassinet, and accepting our hospitality of my quickly prepared lunch, Bill Golden bid the three of us "Adieu". I never saw Bill Golden again in person. But because I was a high-school English teacher, Rutha Mae used to send me copies of her poems for my perusal and suggestions--Christian poems that she wrote to be sung by the Oak Ridge Boys. Back in those day, as I recall it now, the Oak Ridge Boys sang only Christian songs. Rutha Mae would also send me the group's recordings (on records back in those days), which I was thrilled to receive.
This is 1966 or 1967 I beleive.
The movie was released in 1966.
Oak Ridge Boys? serius?
I have the video tape. Contact me and I will send to you.
To me, WLG is hard to hear.
I never knew Dumbledore was clean-shaven at one point lol.
Raymond Lisle, That wasn't Nice Thing to Say, but, This was Before He got into the Mountain Men Movement. Late '70's !
I didn't like quartets when I was a kid and don't like them today, personally I'm glad it left the planet.I love the Oaks today and sure glad they aren't the 1966 -67version.Just for the record I like my buddy WLG as a 2023 mountain man.