Wanna Cross Ov-ah
It’s Friday. This means I feel good and thus, you should too.
Whether you love Jesus or not, The Statesmen Quartet should make you happy. Why? Lotsa reasons. Great singers….charismatic….influential….should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. Oh yes they should. Where do you think Elvis learned a lot of his Elvis-isms? From Jake Hess, Hovie Lister and the Big Chief, yes indeedy.
Watching this makes me wish there were more menfolk running around with those Zorro kinda mustaches the Statesmen had. They was stylin’.
I dig. (I also dig the way you can watch other videos in an embedded video by the same artist. Cool.)
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Wheee! So much fun. Jake Hess had enough teeth for several people, didn’t he? We used to get tickled at him when he had that “Old Time Singing Convention” on Channel 5 around dinnertime back in the 60s and early 70s. That HAIR. Law. But he had the Happy Goodmans and the Sego Brothers & Naomi on regularly, so we let it slide. Thank you for the links and the grins!!
I can’t recall the name of it, but my dad has an album somewhere … I think it’s a live collection from the Blackwoods (he adored them) … that has a bunch of candid photos on the back like a scrapbook and there’s one picture of J.D. Sumner rubbing his eye and laughing and the caption says, “Hovie done spit in my eye again!” I asked my mom about it (they courted up at the All-Night Singings, as you recall me telling), and she said, “Yes, Hovie Lister would be hopping all around on that piano and spitting and singing. There was no telling what he’d do. It would kinda wig me out, being Church of Christ and all, but your daddy thought it was great. I just figured that’s how those Baptists were.” Hee!!