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WLOSGMH CONVENTION SPEER TRIBUTE IS TUESDAY NIGHT

Written by Staff on March 26, 2018 – 4:41 pm -

SPEER TRIBUTE

SPEER TRIBUTE

We Love Our Southern Gospel Music History, (WLOSGMH) is one of Facebook’s most unique groups. The page features a host of exclusive videos, audio clips, photos, stories and memorabilia being shared on a daily basis. Those exclusive tid-bits are what really allows the group to share the history of southern gospel music came to be one of the most faithful and popular Christian music forms.

In the many years since the Franks Stamps Quartet, there have been some true iconic performing artists. The Blackwood Brothers, Statesmen, Sunshine Boys, Stamps Quartet, Weatherfords, Cathedrals, LeFevres, Sego Brothers and Naomi, Goss Brothers and the list could go on and on.

Yet one family group really stood out for many years as a true leader in the field, The Speer Family. The family had several resurgent periods of popularity that marked gospel music. When the group disbanded in 1998, seventy six years of history were logged in the annals of gospel music.

With the recent deaths of Ben Speer and Rosa Nell Speer Powell, the last original performing family members, there has been a void in gospel music. Yet their impact lives in the lives of those adopted family members who are still singing and ministering.

This year, the WLOSGMH Convention runs March 26 and 27, 2018 to the Murfreesboro, TN Clarion Hotel Ballrooms.

On Tuesday evening the WLOSGMH Convention will feature a special SPEER FAMILY TRIBUTE.  This special tribute to the legendary Speer Family is planned to highlight some history of the legendary family. Some vintage footage of the Speer Family through the years will be shown. Former Speer Family members will grace the stage including Joyce West Black, Ann Downing, Jeanne Johnson, Sue Dodge, Linda Robinson Sholar, Karen Apple Young, and Daryl Williams, They will be singing some of your favorite songs. Doug Young and Gene McDonald will join this all-star lineup of talent to create that unique Speer Family sound. Tom Powell, Rosa Nell Speer Powell’s son, will be conducting a choir featuring many of the great songs written by Dad Speer. Several Speer Family members are expected to be in attendance. You don’t want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime treat!

SPEER TRIBUTE

SPEER TRIBUTE

Convention notes for the two day event. Monday 5:30/Dinner – 6:45/Concert

Tuesday Morning activities, followed by lunch, afternoon activities, you are on your own for supper. Tuesday Evening Concert at 6:00 PM. Daytime activities include funny stories, show and tell, gospel music movies, etc. Times subject to change.

TALENT for the one of a king music history convention includes the who’s who in southern gospel music. Chuck Wagon Gang (Monday night only), Mercy’s Well (Monday night only), Sherman Andrus, Ann Downing, The Sheltons (Monday night only), Jeanne Johnson, Sue Dodge, Charlie Griffin, Michael Stanton, Jordan’s Bridge, Eddie Crook, John Wyrick, Joyce Black West (of the Speer Family), Jonathan Wilburn, Ellen Marsh, Ed Hill, Brad Smith, Donnie Williamson, Songfellows Quartet (Monday night only), Administrators Quartet, The Collectors Quartet, John Crenshaw, Hannah Kennedy, Harold Timmons, Rita Spillers, Bill Kelley, Doug Young, Karen Apple Young and Gene McDonald. (Talent subject to change.)

Speers

Speers

For more information contact Harold Timmons via Facebook with a private Facebook message or email h.t@comcast.net, or call 615-885-8000 and leave a message.

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Songfellows Quartet to Appear on Daystar Network

Written by SGN Scoops Staff on June 11, 2016 – 9:08 am -

Songfellows Quartet to Appear on Daystar Network

Songfellows Quartet to Appear on Daystar Network

Nashville TN- The Legendary Songfellows Quartet will be the featured artist this weekend on the Daystar Television Network. The program is set to air this Saturday, June 11th at 2:30 Eastern/ 1:30 pm Central time. If you are unable to view the program as by television it will also be available in live stream and on demand at www.daystar.com .

For over 50 years the Songfellows Quartet have been blessings the hearts of countless Gospel Music Fans with their traditional style of quartet music the way it was meant to be. Current members of the quartet include lead vocalist and quartet manager Bob Jones, Baritone the legendary Ed Hill, Bass Vocalist Mike Allen and Tenor Rick Strickland. The quartet’s latest recording Forever includes their latest radio single “Crossing Chilly Jordan” which is catching the attention of radio programmers across the nation. The recording also features other classics as “Roll On Jordan” and “I’d Still Want To Go”.

The Daystar Television Network which is based in Dallas Texas is available on most cable systems in America as well as on Direct TV, Dish Network and AT&T Uverse. Please check your local listings for channel availability.

You can find more information on The Songfellows, including latest products and personal appearances at www.songfellows.net.


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Gospel Music Today On SGNScoops.com

Written by SGN Scoops Staff on February 10, 2014 – 9:25 am -

Lou Wills Hildreth is the guest on Gospel Music Today for the week of February 9. Ken and Jean Grady host southern gospel news and concert updates, the Feature Group is The Social Security Boys, and Jean reviews a new recording by Down Home. An article about Dianne Wilkinson is the subject of this week’s Singing News Notes. The Songfellows Quartet sings, and the show includes exclusive video of McCray Dove and The Dove Brothers Band, recorded by Gospel Music Today’s cameras at The Owasso Gospel Opry, in Owasso, OK, and a visit to the Gospel Music Today Archives for an exclusive concert video of Declaration.


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Written by SGN Scoops Staff on October 22, 2012 – 8:38 am -


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The Tacketts Special Guests on Gospel Music Today

Written by SGN Scoops on October 22, 2012 – 8:05 am -

The Tacketts are the guests on the current edition of Gospel Music Today, and Jeff Tackett takes Ken on a tour of the Encore Coach that was on display at NQC this year. Ken and Jean Grady host southern gospel news and concert updates, the Feature Group is The Bridgemans, and Jean reviews a new CD by 1 Voice. The show has singing by The Songfellows Quartet, a new music video by Cross Pointe Trio, and exclusive concert footage of Sonship Quartet, captured by the Gospel Music Today cameras in Broken Arrow, OK.. The show is online now at the Gospel Music Today website, www.gospelmusictoday.com.

 


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Gospel Music Today On SGNScoops.com

Written by SGN Scoops Staff on August 20, 2012 – 8:12 am -


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Songfellows Quartet Special Guests on Gospel Music Today

Written by SGN Scoops on August 20, 2012 – 6:13 am -

The members of The Songfellows Quartet are the guests on the current edition of Gospel Music Today. The Feature Group is NewHeir Bluegrass, and Ken and Jean Grady host southern gospel news and concert updates. Gospel Music Today visits the Owasso Gospel Opry, in Owasso, OK, to hear Palmetto State Quartet sing. Jean reviews a new CD by Joseph Beggs, and the show features singing by The Whisnants. The latest edition of Gospel Music Today is online now at the Gospel Music Today website, www.gospelmusictoday.com.


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Songfellows Quartet Personel Changes

Written by SGN Scoops Staff on February 15, 2011 – 3:44 pm -

Brad Smith

Nashville-TN-  Homeland Records recording artists The Legendary
Songfellows Quartet announced today some exciting changes that are taking
place in the group effective immediately.

Songfellows Quartet owner Bob Jones stated “Just like the Bible tells us,
there is a season to everything.  We all go through those seasons and
seasons bring about changes.  Oftentimes those changes bring excitement
and new beginnings and at this time with some members leaving to pursue
other interests, God has brought us new personnel that are no strangers to
Gospel Music Fans nationwide.  So joining Baritone Ed Hill and me are two
familiar faces.  On each end of the quartet will be, Tenor Rick Strickland
and Bass Brad Smith.

Strickland who currently resides in Greenville, TN is a multi-year veteran

Rick Strickland

in Gospel Music who began his career in 1983 with The Singing Americans
during the era when “I Bowed On My Knees and Cried Holy” was a multi-award
winning song, that became a signature song of The Singing Americans
throughout the rest of their career in Gospel Music. Most gospel music
fans loved the classic renditions Rick sings of songs like “Glory Road”
and “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. Rick has spent over 27 years with other
artists at the tenor position such as The Sound, The Kingdom Heirs and The
Stamps Quartet.

Smith comes to the Songfellows with a fine resume as well to his credit.
Brad has performed with groups such as The Impacts, The New Speers, and
The Statesmen.  Brad and his family make their home in Goodlettsville, TN
and he shares the excitement and is ready to get back to seeing Gospel
Music Fans again.

Ed Hill who has been the baritone vocalist for the past year with The
Songfellows is enjoying his time too getting reacquainted with many of the
people that have supported him throughout his 40 plus years singing with
groups such as The Prophets, The Statesmen, Singing Americans, and The
Masters V who later became The Stamps Quartet.

The Songfellows Quartet was based in California for over fifty years and
moved to Nashville in 2006.  They now tour and appear in concerts all
across the nation.  Their style is traditional four part, big full harmony
Southern Gospel Quartet singing.  “There are not many quartets like us
left, the days of the Statesmen, Stamps and Cathedrals have past but a
love for that sound and feel in gospel music has not” added Bob Jones,
“with this line-up of veteran  singers, the folks who missed those great
groups will get a taste of what it was like in the ‘Golden Era’ and
discover the music that launched this great style of Gospel Music.” You
can also catch the Songfellows Quartet’s live performances on the
nationally syndicated Television show Brush Arbor Jubilee.

The first weekend that Gospel Music fans will be able to witness this new
lineup of The Songfellows will be next weekend Feb 10th through the 13th
in Indiana and Illinois  in cites such as Jasonville, Monmouth, Decatur
and Harrisburg.  .  For scheduled listings visit
www.brusharborjubilee.com.  More information on the new lineup of the
Songfellows Quartet will be made available soon at www.songfellows.net or
www.homelandentertainmentgroup.com


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