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The Old Time Gospel Hour Quartet was a Southern Gospel Quartet that was formed by Jerry Falwell, Sr., the senior pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in 2000. The group performed weekly on The Old Time Gospel Hour television programme of the church, in addition to having a small travel schedule.
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 ...
This category includes gospel quartets, noted for singing four-part gospel music, either a cappella or with background instrumental accompaniment.To add groups to this listing please tag the articles or categories as follows:
The Blackwood Brothers formed a partnership with the Statesmen Quartet (informally known as the "Stateswood" team) to tour as a team in the 1950s, and they were the dominant act on the southern gospel circuit during this time. This dominance lasted for about a decade until the rise of gospel television shows in the late 1960s began to give ...
Its origins are varied, including 4-part hymn singing, shape note singing, barbershop quartets, jubilee songs, spirituals, and other Gospel songs. Gospel quartets sing in four-part harmony, with parts given to a tenor, or highest part; lead, which usually takes the melody; baritone, which blends the sounds and adds richness; and the bass, or ...
The Harmonizing Four was an American black gospel quartet organized in 1927 and reaching peak popularity during the decades immediately following World War II. [1]Sources disagree as to the original membership when the group was established in 1927 to sing for school functions at Richmond, Virginia's Dunbar Elementary School.
The Old Friends Quartet was a Southern gospel quartet. They released all their albums with Spring House Productions. In 2002, their DVD Encore, with special guests Aaron Wilburn, The Talleys Trio and the Gaither Vocal Band was filmed in Mobile, Alabama and won a Southern Gospel Music Association Award. [1]
The Dixie Hummingbirds publicity photo. The Dixie Hummingbirds (formerly known as The Sterling High School Quartet) are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today.