Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ben Lacy Speer (June 26, 1930 – April 7, 2017) [1] was a singer, musician, music publisher, and record company executive. He sang for The Speer Family for most of his career. [ 2 ] Speer later became the music director of the Gaither Homecoming programs.
On February 19, 1992, the Gaither Vocal Band had just wrapped up a recording session in a Nashville, Tennessee, working on an album called Homecoming, which featured many of the great voices of southern gospel music: The Speers, The Gatlins, Jake Hess, The Cathedrals, Howard & Vestal Goodman, Buck Rambo, Eva Mae Lefevre, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister, Jim Hill, and J.D. Sumner & The Stamps.
Here's the best modern and new Christmas music to refresh your holiday playlist in 2024, featuring hits from Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and more.
This position afforded greater financial security for the family. Also in the mid 1920s/early 1930s, two more siblings, Mary Tom Speer (1925-2014) and Ben Speer (1930-2017), joined the group. In 1941, James Vaughan died, and the Speer family left his company. During his time at the Vaughan Company, "Dad" Speer wrote or co-wrote more than 600 ...
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
Ten-year-old Gayla Peevey performed "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" in 1953 and her version remains one of the silliest (and the most popular) Christmas songs on radio waves each year. 6 ...
Elvis, his band, Stoker, and Ben and Brock Speer, recorded "I Was The One" (the B-side of "Heartbreak Hotel") in January and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" in April. [11] After the April session, Presley asked Stoker if the full group could join him in the studio for the next sessions.
The best country Christmas songs run the gamut from nostalgic, easy listening to power ballads to modern party tracks with some twang. Classics from the likes of Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn are ...