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In fact, southern gospel was the 9th most popular format for AM stations and the 21st most popular for FM. Southern gospel radio promoters routinely service more than a thousand radio stations which play at least some southern gospel music each week. Recent years have also seen the advent of a number of internet-only southern gospel "radio ...
The Dixie Melody Boys were an American Southern Gospel quartet from Kinston, North Carolina formed in 1961 and retired in 2023. The group was known for giving many young Southern Gospel and Christian artists their start in the gospel music industry and their innovation in the Christian music field.
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) was founded in 1964 to promote Gospel music. [1] It was created as an extension of the National Quartet Convention, a convention devoted to Southern gospel that had been operating since 1956. [2]
The Statesmen Quartet (also known as Hovie Lister and The Statesmen Quartet) were an American southern gospel quartet founded in 1948 by Baptist Minister Hovie Lister.Along with the Blackwood Brothers, the Statesmen Quartet were considered the most successful and influential gospel quartet of the 1950s and 1960s and had a wide influence on artists during that time from the gospel, country, pop ...
Burl Strevel joined the quartet in 1947 to sing bass, and they moved over to WDBB radio in Burlington, NC. In 1948 they moved to WSPA radio Spartanburg, SC and dropped the "Stamps" name. Former Lone Star Quartet lead and baritone Clarence Turbyfill joined to sing tenor. In 1949, Kenny Gates became the Blue Ridge Quartet's pianist.
Stamps organized a gospel quartet in which he sang bass. He was a pioneer is the use of radio for promoting Southern gospel music and quartet singing. Radio station KRLD gave the quartet a daily show in 1936, after a large response from their radio performance at the Texas Centennial Exposition.
Information about Southern Gospel radio hits is derived from the Singing News Magazine's National Southern Gospel radio airplay chart "I'm On the Battlefield For My Lord" peaked at #18 in March 2005. "His Response" peaked at #40. "I Got It" peaked at #40. "Something's Happening" peaked at #22 in April 2007.
Bill Dykes - From 1972 through 1974, William “Bill” Dykes was the Cathedral Quartet’s baritone. He then left to spend four years with Jerry & the Singing Goffs. During a brief period in ~1979-80, he came back, until the Cathedrals hired Steve Lee. [1] July 23, 2008 - Renowned Christian Gospel Singer Dr. Bill Dykes Joins Sky Angel Team [2]