Wednesday the Gaither Vocal Band held their GVB reunion taping in Alexandria, IN at Gaither Studios. It went very well. The entire day was spent singing and sharing memories. All but 2 of the former members of GVB were in attendance.
The 2 pack DVD/Video will be out sometime in fall of 2009.
Should be one of the best! GVB also has their new Christmas album will released Sept 30th this year. It will be kinda like a Nat King Cole meets GVB Christmas. Looking forward to both!
So it takes over a year to get it ready for release? Man, I don’t want to wait. Where did you hear this? I would like more info. My subscription to gaither.com lapsed recently and I haven’t renewed yet.
Unless my eyes deceive me in my quick perusal of this article, Jonathan Pierce, Terry Franklin and Lemuel Miller seem to be the missing ones. TENORS!
I’ll have to check when I have time, but I thought there were 18 members and there were only 14 there. Does that mean another was missing and I didn’t catch it offhand?
Terry & Jonathan were the 2 not there. Lemuel never recorded an album with them, so he is an unofficial member of GVB, make sense?
I talked to Denise (JP’s wife) she said he’s not really doing a lot with music anymore. He has a store to go along with his design work he does in the Nashville area.
Terry said he and Barbi had a scheduling conflict.
As far as the time to release it. They have to edit the shoot, mix down, and do B-Roll footage. It is not uncommon to take a year before the release of a new video.
Terry & Jonathan were the 2 not there. Lemuel never recorded an album with them, so he is an unofficial member of GVB, make sense?
I talked to Denise (JP’s wife) she said he’s not really doing a lot with music anymore. He has a store to go along with his design work he does in the Nashville area.
Terry said he and Barbi had a scheduling conflict.
As far as the time to release it. They have to edit the shoot, mix down, and do B-Roll footage. It is not uncommon to take a year before the release of a new video.
I understand there is much to do to get it ready, but I have waited for this since around 1992.
I disagree about Lemuel being an unofficial member. A person doesn’t have to record a project to be a member. If he won the slot and performed with them, he was a member.
I do hope the other three are represented on the DVD at least with historical footage and at least a performance a piece from the archives.
In regards to the number there were 15 in attendance. I think I must have neglected Wes when I did a quick count of the names in the article since his name was “away” from the other ones in the list.
Terry & Jonathan were the 2 not there. Lemuel never recorded an album with them, so he is an unofficial member of GVB, make sense?
I talked to Denise (JP’s wife) she said he’s not really doing a lot with music anymore. He has a store to go along with his design work he does in the Nashville area.
Terry said he and Barbi had a scheduling conflict.
As far as the time to release it. They have to edit the shoot, mix down, and do B-Roll footage. It is not uncommon to take a year before the release of a new video.
I understand there is much to do to get it ready, but I have waited for this since around 1992.
I disagree about Lemuel being an unofficial member. A person doesn’t have to record a project to be a member. If he won the slot and performed with them, he was a member.
I do hope the other three are represented on the DVD at least with historical footage and at least a performance a piece from the archives.
I have too. I talked to Bill about it years ago. At the time he said they didn’t have enough former members to do it at that time. For the sake of arguement I would say Lemuel is an unofficial/official member of the group. Does that make sense. I was actually going to type that earlier and didn’t. Larry Gatlin could be called a former member of the Imperials then since he sang with them, but didn’t record anything. However, nobody remembers that. Therefore, an unofficial member. That was my line of thinking on Lemuel.
Terry & Jonathan were the 2 not there. Lemuel never recorded an album with them, so he is an unofficial member of GVB, make sense?
I talked to Denise (JP’s wife) she said he’s not really doing a lot with music anymore. He has a store to go along with his design work he does in the Nashville area.
Terry said he and Barbi had a scheduling conflict.
As far as the time to release it. They have to edit the shoot, mix down, and do B-Roll footage. It is not uncommon to take a year before the release of a new video.
I understand there is much to do to get it ready, but I have waited for this since around 1992.
I disagree about Lemuel being an unofficial member. A person doesn’t have to record a project to be a member. If he won the slot and performed with them, he was a member.
I do hope the other three are represented on the DVD at least with historical footage and at least a performance a piece from the archives.
I have too. I talked to Bill about it years ago. At the time he said they didn’t have enough former members to do it at that time. For the sake of arguement I would say Lemuel is an unofficial/official member of the group. Does that make sense. I was actually going to type that earlier and didn’t. Larry Gatlin could be called a former member of the Imperials then since he sang with them, but didn’t record anything. However, nobody remembers that. Therefore, an unofficial member. That was my line of thinking on Lemuel.
Actually, I thought of Larry when we were discussing this. I was but a child at that time, but am aware of his contributions. The Imperials themselves called him a member on their site as far as I recall. Larry’s situation is a bit different as far as I know. He was auditioning / filling in. He was never technically hired as the replacement (at least that is my understanding after reading not only some stuff from the Imperials, but especially Larry’s book.)
The first I heard of or thought of the reunion idea was someone interviewed Bill for a Vocal Band feature in a magazine sometime in the early (or maybe almost mid) nineties. It was the time English and Lowry were there. I can’t recall if Murray or Franklin was tenor. Anyhow, the interviewer mentioned it and Bill said he liked the idea. For the last several years it has been presented to Bill on gaithernet. He always seemed to shrug it off or at least indirectly as a someday thing.
In regards to Lemuel, I still think he is a member. Of course he isn’t as well known since only those who saw him with them would remember or have seen his contributions, although several of us are aware he was there. In fact, in one of the Gaither photo album type books, he was listed as a former member. From Bill’s mouth I presume. Granted too, most people will not miss him as most probably never knew he was there to begin with. I once emailed him and he told me some of the songs he sang while with them. I don’t have access to that computer right now, but should someday. A similar situation was in place with the Cathedrals. Kurt Young was a member (for a very short time) even though he never recorded with them (unless he had started working on the Climbing Higher and Higher project. The Cathedrals never seemed to mention him, Part of this might have been the disaster on the Dove Awards, but also they never mentioned other former members who were with them longer and didn’t have that baggage. Ernie was asked once about if he were a member or not. Ernie said to the best of his memory and knowledge, he was hired as a member, but it didn’t work out. I remember the Singing News article that said he was hired, for that matter.
By the way, I hope / wish that Bill would get the date of their creation right on this. He always says it a year later than it actually happened. He seems to go by the date that their first recording was released, but I have an album from the year before (Gaither Trio Live Across America) that had them (as an unnamed group) perform First Day In Heaven. So, unless the date on that album and I believe the liner notes is wrong, Bill is. Also, I once talked with Lee Young and he confirmed the date. In fact, I think he did it without my saying anything first.
As I remember it, Kurt Young joined the Cathedrals after Danny Funderburke went with Perfect Heart. In the spring of that year—1990 maybe?—they sang at the Dove Awards and at the end of a song Kurt went up for a note, missed it, tried again and missed it again. The story I heard was that George Younce came off stage and said, “You’ll never do that to me again, you’re fired!!!”
BTW, I thought I knew all the GVBs people but this Lemuel Miller is one I’ve never heard of. Who is he and what did he sing?
Where did you hear this? I would like more info. My subscription to gaither.com lapsed recently and I haven’t renewed yet.
