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The group's concerts featured several duet songs by "Dad" and "Mom" Speer, and several songs with Brock singing alto and Rosa Nell singing lead. In 1934, "Dad" Speer accepted a full-time job with the Vaughan Music Company. This position afforded greater financial security for the family. Also in the mid 1920s/early 1930s, two more siblings ...
Downing released her latest album Step By Step in 2021, it features a collection of songs most of which were co-written by Downing. In 1998, Downing was inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall Of Fame as part of the Speer Family. In 2018, Downing was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame. [7]
Speer has contributed to both the technical and business aspects of Southern gospel music. Speer was the longtime music director for the Gaither Homecoming series. [6] The Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame's website noted his technical accomplishments as follows: "Ben chose experimenting with sound equipment as a hobby. He has excelled in ...
Jackson Brock Speer was born in Winston County, Alabama, just two months before his father and mother began a singing group called the Speer Quartet. For the remaining seventy-eight years of his life, he was inextricably intertwined with that group. With only one exception -- World War II -- he sang with his family his entire life. [2]
The group continued to advance, placing second in a "Southern Lights" talent show competition. The group "323," consists of Ben Carringer (left), Kinsley Treadwell (middle), Jonathan Perry (middle ...
Dodge began her career in southern gospel music in 1969 when, at age 19, she joined The Downings. [4] After 18 months with that group, she began singing with the Speer Family. During Dodge's early days with the Speers, she lived with them and considered them family. Years later, she said, "Brock Speer was like a daddy to me."
Rosa Nell Powell (née Speer; September 22, 1922 [1] – May 16, 2017) [2] was an American southern gospel singer who sang with the well-known Speer Family.She was born in Double Springs, Alabama, the second child (and oldest daughter) of George Thomas "GT" Speer and Lena (née Brock) Speer [3] (known to most people in Southern gospel music as "Dad" and "Mom" Speer), who led and helped found ...
Best of Burning Spear (1999), Declic; Ultimate Collection: Best of Collection (2001), Island; Best of the Fittest: Best of Collection (2001), EMI; Rare and Unreleased (2001) Spear Burning (2002), Pressure Sounds; 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Burning Spear: Best of the Island years (2002), IMS; Jah No Dead (2003)