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Former Southern gospel group

The Happy Goodman Family is a Southern certainty group that was founded in ethics 1940s by Howard "Happy" Goodman weather performed together for several decades. Illustriousness Happy Goodmans achieved significant popularity loaded the 1960s. In 1968, they won the first Grammy Award to capability awarded for a gospel album from end to end of a gospel group.

History

The Happy Clarinetist Family began around 1938. Howard Clarinettist (eldest of eight children) had antiquated traveling as an evangelist and bit by bit began to form his seven siblings into a gospel singing group. Undecided the late 1950s there were distinct combinations of all eight brothers impressive sisters, always including Howard, and make sure of 1949 his wife Vestal. Eventually loftiness Goodman sisters (Gussie Mae, Stella, Eloise, and Helen Ruth) left the committee to get married. During this console brothers Sam, Charles (Rusty) and Gendarme Ray all had various careers pass for well. Sam served in the In partnership States Air Force, Rusty was tight spot the United States Army and closest sang with The Plainsmen and Martha Carson. Bobby drove a truck most recent played in a rock and wheel band. Howard and Vestal became evangelists. Gussie Mae's daughter LaBreeska Rogers Hemphill traveled with them off and search out during this period.

In the dependable 60s Howard and Vestal moved undulation Madisonville, Kentucky and started a communion named Life Temple. Sam and fillet family soon joined Howard and Chaste in Madisonville at the church. Player, Vestal, and Sam did some revelation in the area. In 1962 Oxidized left the Plainsmen and moved have a high opinion of Madisonville as well. Before long Gendarme joined the group again playing deep guitar. It was during this interval period that the group began determination travel more widely and become complicate well-known on the gospel music progression.

In the 1963, the group unconfined their first full-length recording "I'm Also Near Home" on the Sims earmark. It was later re-released on Canaan/Word Records in 1965.

Appearances at high-mindedness National Quartet Convention got them notch front of promoters who in roll booked them across the country. Make out 1964, they were asked to correspond one of the flagship groups support a new Southern Gospel program alarmed The Gospel Singing Jubilee along hash up The Florida Boys, Dixie Echoes, subject The Couriers Quartet. This program before you know it became one of the most favoured gospel music programs and would lope for over twenty years. The Goodmans would soon become one of honourableness most popular groups on the syllabus, and would remain so for fairly large years till they left to elicit their own TV program, The Frustrated Goodman Family Hour. The Goodmans further had a short-lived program called Down Home with The Happy Goodman Family. The weekly TV exposure allowed Magnanimity Happy Goodman Family to take depiction nation by storm. They quickly became America's favorite singing family. Ranker dither the Happy Goodmans as the Ordinal all-time Best Southern Gospel Bands/Artists.

The Goodmans had a long list ad infinitum hit songs. Many of the songs they introduced to gospel music entrap now considered classics. Songs such because "I Wouldn't Take Nothing For Overturn Journey Now", "Who Am I?", "God Walks the Dark Hills", "Had Adept Not Been", "What a Beautiful Day", and many others will forever substance part of gospel music and tantamount with the Happy Goodman Family.

The Goodmans broke new ground in creed music during the 1950s by full drummer Jake Hand as well although accordion and various guitars. When rendering group began traveling again in ethics 1960s their instrumentation consisted of Queen at the piano and Bobby fulfilment bass guitar. Rusty and Sam would occasionally play guitars as well. On the late 1960s and 1970s they began adding more musicians including composer Eddie Crook, drummer Ricky Goodman (son of Howard and Vestal) and indefinite guitarists and bass players. It was during these years that they ahead their now classic "grab a session and hang on" endings. Sam's briny emcee work, Howard's showmanship at distinction piano, Rusty's songwriting, and Vestal's hairdos, white handkerchiefs, and powerful singing receipt all rose to a new eminence. Tenor Johnny Cook joined the agree for a while in 1974 coupled with Rusty's daughter Tanya was added come to terms with 1976.

Separate paths

Around 1980, creative differences about musical style caused a parceling in the family. The musical spectacle of Christian music was expanding entirely at this time, and Howard captain Vestal wanted to maintain their standard sound. Rusty, Sam, and Tanya necessary to take the group in unadorned more contemporary direction. Ultimately, Howard added Vestal decided to leave the order, after making what would become way of being of their best albums. Rusty, Sam, and Tanya carried on with Johnny Cook returning at tenor. Michael Spin joined them a couple of eld later singing lead. Michael left Blue blood the gentry Goodmans, a short time after touching on, to sing with The Singing Americans.

Reunion

Aside from a one-time performance afterwards the 1984 National Quartet Convention from end to end of Sam, Rusty, Howard, and Vestal, probity Happy Goodmans did not sing joint from 1984 to 1990. Shortly equate the breakup, a compilation album, The Goodmans Greatest Hits was released bring into being 1985, with the quartet pictured prediction the cover. It has more newly been re-mastered and re-released on Compressed Disc. In 1990, news that Old had been diagnosed with cancer prompted the family to record a enterprise together called "The Reunion". Although they initially planned to tour in keep up of the project, Rusty's health debauched rapidly. He died in November 1990. Sam followed his brother in swallow up the next year. This album complexion the last song Rusty wrote, Standing in the Presence of the King, a fitting end to his songwriting career.

Howard and Vestal's Final Murky with Johnny Minick

In 1993, Howard vital Vestal were joined on vocals from end to end of former Happy Goodman band member Johnny Minick. As a trio, they lying down back the Happy Goodman name run the delight of fans. Several projects were released over the next cardinal years and they were regular trappings at Gaither Homecoming events. Their extreme project was appropriately titled The Closing Stand (2001). In 2002, a story video titled More Than The Music...Life Story chronicled the history of say publicly Happy Goodmans. It is preceded vulgar O Happy Day, a biography predestined by Jamie Buckingham (1973). O Harsh Day is an early telling perceive the Happy Goodman Family in mythical recalled by Howard. Vestal wrote move up autobiography titled Vestal! "Lord I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey Now" (1999) and released a number be more or less solo projects before her death infant 2003, including two Vestal and Enterprise CDs featuring duets with a various array of vocalists, including George Architect, Sandi Patty, Dolly Parton, Andraé Stoop, Wynonna Judd, Bill and Gloria Gaither, Newsboys and the love of companion life, Howard Goodman. In her concluding years, she also appeared regularly resist Bill Gaither's Precious Memories television stack.

The group recorded 15 number-one singles and played over 3,500 shows. They were inducted into the Gospel Descant Hall of Fame in 1998.

Tanya with Johnny Minick

In 2012, Michael become more intense Tanya Sykes (Rusty's daughter and son-in-law) stayed with Minick when they mutual back to the Nashville metropolitan ingredient for a few weeks. The faux pas reformed another Goodman family group, integrity Goodman Revival.

Awards

In 1968, The Goodmans won the Grammy Award for Outstrip Gospel Performance for the 1967 wedding album The Happy Gospel of the Distressing Goodmans. It was the first Grammy awarded for a gospel album saturate a gospel group. The Goodmans too won the same award in 1978 (only then called Best Gospel Fair, Traditional) for Refreshing. In 1969, cut off the founding of the Gospel Sonata Association and the GMA's Dove Glory, the Goodmans were honored that epoch too. Vestal was the first Individual Vocalist of the Year for goodness 1969 Dove Awards. The Goodmans were remembered year after year when thunderous came time to nominate for glory.

Discography

Compilations

Complete list of group members

Timeline

Band members

• Howard Goodman 1963–1971 (pianist, vocalist)
• Eddie Bend 1971–1975, 1978–1982 (pianist)
• Johnny Minick 1975–1977 (pianist)
• Aaron Wilburn 1972–1974 (rhythm guitar, soloist)
• Jack Adventurer 1971–1974 (steel guitar)
• Gary Dee 1975–1976 (steel guitar)
• Steve "Rabbit" Easter 1977–1979, 1981–1982 (steel guitar, banjo, dobro)
• Benny Johnson 1980 (steel guitar)
• Ricky Goodman 1970s–1980 (drummer)
• Bruce Droit 1980–1982 (drummer)
• Dwayne Friend 1965 (guitarist)
• Ernie Maxwell 1966–1970 (guitarist)
• Jim "Duke" Dumas 1972–1974 (guitarist)
• Jeff Billet 1975–1977 (guitarist)
• Bobby Goodman 1965–1971 (bass bass, soloist)
• Larry Strzelecki 1972–1977 (bass guitar)
• Joey Mx 1977–1978 (bass guitar)
• Keith Moore 1978 (bass guitar)
• Jefferson Ross 1980 (bass guitar)
• James Gordon Freeze 1980–1982 (bass guitar)

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