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They Gave The World a Smile: The Stamps Quartet Tribute Album

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I'd heard about this release as being one of its field's 5 best in the world a'la The GRAMMYS, and thanks to amazon.com for stocking! It's a hard-to-find rarity! For that raw, 4 men and a piano gospel quartet sound, fans, this is the group and sound that was there in the lab when it was invented! No "middle-of-the-road" sermonettes for Christianettes here; this is powerful "I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone" stuff-----full of majesty and power! The spoken introductions by the legends are worth the price of this CD alone! ....the essence of what gospel music is all about,...or should be!

This CD is the perfect embodiment of what music fans all over the world know as American gospel. This is essential listening for historians and fans who want to hear the roots of gospel music in the 20th century. From Dallas to Memphis and throughout the south and southwest, this V.O. Stamps and company-inspired music forever set the standard for "happy rhythms". Who can estimate the worldwide enjoyment of these songs such as "On The Jericho Road" and "Farther Along"? These songs' and these singers' impact has been substantial. And added to the southern gospel sound is the string band swing accompaniment on select tunes of The Light Crust Doughboys, furthering celebrating a sound that coincided with the radio explosion of the 1930s that so popularized both radio gospel music and western swing. It doesn't get any better than this, folks: the heart and soul of American folk music as demonstrated by the giants in their fields: James Blackwood, Larry Ford, Ken Turner and the other singers; Smokey Montgomery, Bill Simmons, Art Greenhaw and the other instrumentalists.

Way back in the 1930's My dad would stop work to listen to The Light Crust Doughboys. We could only afford radio batteries for important stuff.. and this was it! Thank God it's still available. Dad sings with them now... I will listen here for a long while yet!!!

What a wonderful joy it is to see people serve the Saviour threw music. This cd has got a lot of the gospel songs that we have come to love and enjoy. The arrangments on this cd are fantastic.The vocals are really "out of this world". I feel that anyone who buys this cd will be more than fulfilled. Praise God for such wonderful music.

I collect and frequently listen to all the music of the Stamps -- V.O. and Frank Stamps, JD Sumner and the many others who were part of the Stamps Quartet. This one album, this tribute to all the Stamps Quartets, is my favorite. Art Greenhaw, you produced an excellent musical tribute cd. Now that James Blackwood and Smokey Montgomery have gone home to join the rest of God's singers, this album means even more; it is filled with Precious Memories of a bygone era. Fortunately, the legacy of the Stamps Quartet is still with us in the form of singing conventions held throughout the south and other areas of the United States. And the Stamps Quartet has had a recent re-birth, as well with Ed Enoch as its leader. -- Will Stamps, Stamps family historian