The Oak Ridge Boys announce their farewell tour after 50 years on the road

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2023
  • We are honored to have William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban join us in studio to talk about The Oak Ridge Boys: American Made Farewell Tour and their upcoming Christmas Show at the Ryman on December 12. For more information, please visit oakridgeboys.com
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  • @freedomlover8412
    @freedomlover8412 6 месяцев назад +22

    Love the oak ridge boys.
    Gonna be missed.
    Miss the Statler Brothers too. Alabama.

  • @LinkRocks
    @LinkRocks 6 месяцев назад +19

    Love the Oaks. Sorry Joe had to retire from touring, I pray for his health.

  • @karenshurley4793
    @karenshurley4793 7 месяцев назад +19

    I’ve followed the Oaks for 50 years - like Richard said, “where’s the time gone?”

    • @kennyhuskisson2684
      @kennyhuskisson2684 3 месяца назад

      Thanks for reminding me that I'm an old man now, lol, I've followed the Oaks since the mid 70s, then I was a kid, lol, thanks again Karen, lol👍, I'm just joking with you, no harm intended, lol👍✌️

  • @greeneyes92061
    @greeneyes92061 7 месяцев назад +16

    50 years….amazing! Love the ORB. Honestly never thought William Lee Golden could talk that much. He always seems to have sort of been in the background, as far as talking. Love hearing him!

  • @thejoshsings9280
    @thejoshsings9280 7 месяцев назад +22

    I never got the chance to see the Oak Ridge Boys perform live in concert. But now since they’re retiring I wish them the best in their future endeavors and I thank them for many years of wonderful music

    • @keaganburk5813
      @keaganburk5813 7 месяцев назад +3

      I never seen them in concert either and now I want to also wish them a happy retirement…

    • @thejoshsings9280
      @thejoshsings9280 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@keaganburk5813
      So do I. We still have their music to enjoy

    • @thejoshsings9280
      @thejoshsings9280 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@keaganburk5813
      I do too. It seems a lot of our favorite artists be they country music or other genres,are retiring. Or worse, dying. But it’s important to remember that they will always be remembered for their music. So that’s a good thing.

    • @highnrising
      @highnrising 7 месяцев назад +4

      Neither did I, but I clicked on the tour and bought tickets to see them in Lancaster, Pa. next March. It's worth a 200-plus mile drive from NYC.

    • @thejoshsings9280
      @thejoshsings9280 6 месяцев назад

      @@highnrising
      Wow that’s awesome

  • @anj3595
    @anj3595 7 месяцев назад +17

    I am just grateful they are all still around. They are a mainstay!

  • @TheMikeWaddell
    @TheMikeWaddell 7 месяцев назад +19

    Their live shows are amazing! It is rare to see four fine vocalists share the stage and take command the way that they do.

  • @Darci3333
    @Darci3333 7 месяцев назад +12

    Love love love the Oakridge Boys❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @delorismullings1609
    @delorismullings1609 6 месяцев назад +5

    They are my mother favourite band she had dementia and they are the only band who could keep her calm I would just play their music and she would just start sing along with them ...God bless them

  • @Sprucetroy69
    @Sprucetroy69 6 месяцев назад +8

    Always love singing their songs! GOD bless them all. 🤟😎♥️🇺🇲

  • @kenskip1
    @kenskip1 6 месяцев назад +4

    i have seen the oak ridge boys twice. they were amazing love the oak ridge boys

  • @fredgilbert7804
    @fredgilbert7804 7 месяцев назад +9

    I remember Richard & Joe prior to their being new members of The Oak Ridge Boys. I first met Joe at a Bible College in Green Lane Pennsylvania, and attended church in Pennsylvania with Richard. I also went to Southern Gospel music concerts in Pennsylvania where the original Oak Ridge Boys performed. The last time I attended one of their concerts was in Corona, California several years ago. I hope to see The Oak Ridge Boys in one of their Farewell Tours on the East Coast.

    • @kennypayne9259
      @kennypayne9259 7 месяцев назад +1

      I've still got a record of that group, The Keystone Qt. The piano player, Garland Craft also went to The Oaks for awhile. Dave Will also.left and went with The Imperials in 1975 or 76. Lots of memories there.

  • @rodneystricker7576
    @rodneystricker7576 7 месяцев назад +6

    I was fortunate enough to see them in concert four time...

  • @lynnelovett8999
    @lynnelovett8999 7 месяцев назад +12

    Well deserved retirement. Thank you for the absolutely awesome music. You will be missed. God bless and may He keep you in good health. Blessed 2024...

  • @belindawilson6619
    @belindawilson6619 7 месяцев назад +9

    Love the Oak Ridge Boys! They're the best!!!

  • @peggybachler5952
    @peggybachler5952 6 месяцев назад +3

    I met these guys at the Phoenix State Fair back in the 70s. They were such sweet guys. So talented!!

  • @frednutz1604
    @frednutz1604 6 месяцев назад +5

    I knew they had been around for awhile but 50yrs WOW!
    Love the Oakridge Boys.

    • @curtwoods
      @curtwoods 6 месяцев назад +2

      That's 50 years with the lineup most well known to people; the group has actually been around since World War 2

  • @bernicebarnes3484
    @bernicebarnes3484 6 месяцев назад +5

    I will always love ''The Oaks''! AMAZING AND VERY TALENTED MEN who For 50 glorious years sang their hearts out for people who love them! May God bless each and every one of them every day. I wish them and their families the best as they now retire and rest their talented voices. The best of the best! May they live on in our hearts and memories forever! God bless them!!

  • @davewollenberg1518
    @davewollenberg1518 7 месяцев назад +41

    Strange that William Lee has a deeper speakin' voice, than Richard.

    • @kevinswinyer3176
      @kevinswinyer3176 6 месяцев назад +7

      It was the same with the Statlers as well when they were touring. Don's speaking Voice was just as deep, and low as Harold's speaking voice.

    • @deborahwilkinson8685
      @deborahwilkinson8685 6 месяцев назад +3

      😊

    • @TonyM132
      @TonyM132 6 месяцев назад +3

      I was thinking the same thing. We so rarely ever hear William Lee speak, he has definitely been the quietest member over the years. But I think his speaking voice has gotten deeper with age since they had songs on the charts.

    • @ericdixon2898
      @ericdixon2898 5 месяцев назад +1

      Richard has developed some degree of dysphonia in his lower register.. it started back in the mid 90s. He can still hit low notes but it sounds pretty awful.. like Isabel Sanford just lower
      As for William Lee.. he just smokes a lot of marijuana..

    • @timt8029
      @timt8029 4 месяца назад +2

      Years ago Richard's speaking voice was much lower than it is now.

  • @blondie6549
    @blondie6549 7 месяцев назад +6

    The best!! ❤

  • @markhenry1239
    @markhenry1239 7 месяцев назад +9

    My grandfather loved country music and loved the Oak Ridge Boys. For his Birthday he was given tickets to one of their concerts at a small town theater in Pennsylvania. I actually got to go! Good Lord that was 50 years ago or so. But I'm glad I went and still enjoy their music to this day. My favorite of all time though has GOT to be the Y'all Come Back Saloon! God Bless you guys, and Thank you so much for so many years of incredible entertainment! ❤️

  • @user-mf3pb3yw7j
    @user-mf3pb3yw7j 5 месяцев назад +1

    Me and my late mom love the Oakridge boy my mom in heaven and I will miss you guys listen to ur music for urs for yrs😢 50 yr going strong God bless you guys and urs family

  • @chrisheffernan6600
    @chrisheffernan6600 7 месяцев назад +6

    I got the opportunity to see them a few weeks ago when they passed through our area on their farewell tour. They were still great.

  • @jodywestmoreland6255
    @jodywestmoreland6255 7 месяцев назад +6

    I have seen them twice and I absolutely loved it. My husband took me to the 1st one and I took my daughter with me to the second one

  • @PeppersKentuckyLiving
    @PeppersKentuckyLiving 7 месяцев назад +7

    Love the Oaks!!!

  • @carolfranklin6599
    @carolfranklin6599 7 месяцев назад +4

    The Oaks are the best! They have clean shows and I just love them! Hope they come to Wisconsin!!

  • @clydemcdaniel2945
    @clydemcdaniel2945 7 месяцев назад +4

    They were known as the Tennessee Cutups before becoming The Oak Ridge Boys. Deacon Freeman was a original member of The Tennessee Cutups and he lived in Dalton Georgia after retiring from the group and one year the Oak Ridge Boys invited him to join them at the Opry for their induction to the Hall of Fame I knew Deacon when he worked for Fuller Brush as a route salesman and I was in school with two of his children. I am originally from Dalton and I am living in Orlando FL and I get to see his son when we have our graduation parties because he graduated with me in 1970

  • @janmcwhirter3932
    @janmcwhirter3932 7 месяцев назад +3

    Love the oak ridge boys with the Gaithers

  • @barbarasunday3514
    @barbarasunday3514 6 месяцев назад +1

    My Daddy gave me a used stereo when I was 7 or 8 my very first recording was Room Service. Sterban's base was my very first crush, and his solos still make me warm all over. I have in laws 10 minutes out of Brenton Alabama, and they are really proud of Mr Golden.
    Thanks for the clean, classy music, Gentlemen!

  • @Patricia-zy6ck
    @Patricia-zy6ck 7 месяцев назад +3

    Love the OAKS❤

  • @user-cm5sc1vj5f
    @user-cm5sc1vj5f 6 месяцев назад +1

    Going to miss this crew, but we still have thier music to listen too. What a great group of men and hope others will learn

    • @georgiawessling7987
      @georgiawessling7987 6 месяцев назад +1

      This is why, even at 86, I am so grateful for all the modern advances in technology. I can listen to groups and their songs clear back to my youth and all the music I heard at Anderson College, now a university.

  • @DonnaLane-pw4rg
    @DonnaLane-pw4rg 7 месяцев назад +1

    I had the honor of seeing these guys 3 times in Texas 😊

  • @franclark9256
    @franclark9256 7 месяцев назад +6

    I've seen the Oakridge Boys in concert 4 times. Absolutely incredible!!! May God bless them!

    • @isaacburdiss
      @isaacburdiss 7 месяцев назад +1

      I have a question...is there any chance they would play "Jesus was Born Today" in May? I've never seen them but I would really like for them to play that song!

  • @hyacinththompson5096
    @hyacinththompson5096 3 месяца назад

    Congratulations on your 50 years..enjoyed and still listening to your music..all the best on your retirement..lots of luck..good health and enjoy the rest of your lives to the fullest..be safe..

  • @BeebesFave
    @BeebesFave 7 месяцев назад +1

    I have seen them several time and just went to this farewetour on the 7th. I will miss seeing them after 50 years!

  • @henrypenningtonjr9616
    @henrypenningtonjr9616 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for ..
    For Them The the years and music

  • @rebeccad5988
    @rebeccad5988 7 месяцев назад +1

    ❤ Congratulations. Merry Christmas amd Happy New Year Love Live and Laugh. Thank You all for being in our lives .

  • @joefitzpatrick7563
    @joefitzpatrick7563 7 месяцев назад +1

    I remember seeing them several times on The Tonite show with Johnny Carson.being on Johnny's show was a great big deal back then and Johnny just loved them.

  • @barbarabritt2467
    @barbarabritt2467 5 месяцев назад

    God Bless you all. We love your singing and so PROUD of you all. You are always in our Prayers
    Love you all.

  • @ceemacdee7656
    @ceemacdee7656 5 месяцев назад

    I was 9 months old at my first concert, and I'll be there for their farewell show in our area, God willing. ❤ Bless the ORB. ❤

  • @brianhelle7064
    @brianhelle7064 7 месяцев назад +8

    Straight from the boys themselves (William Lee Golden & Richard Sturban) they are calling it quits just a few years after The Statler Brothers retired. So sad to hear that but like WLG said they ain’t young kids on the block anymore & they’re all getting older & have been together for 50 years it’s time to retire. 150 shows a year & they’re gonna be doing 1/2 that now. I didn’t know that Joe & Richard joined in 1973 I thought it was earlier but what do I know. I’ve always loved their music (even when WLG wasn’t there & Steve Sanders took his place for a short time - Just like when Jimmy Fortune came in 1982 with the Statler Brothers to replace Lew Dewitt).
    Where has time gone???
    Love both the Statler Brothers & the oak ridge boys as well as Alabama).
    Country music is dying out from the all time favorites making room for this new crap they call country music.
    Joe,Duane, William Lee & Richard y’all are going to be greatly missed. Love y’all & prayers for your health,families & new endeavors of whatever they may be

    • @highnrising
      @highnrising 7 месяцев назад

      The Statler Brothers farewell concert was in 2002--twenty-one years ago. The guys were middle-aged. Toward the end of the show, Don started pointing out and thanking some of the special people in attendance and one person who he recognized was his--and Harold's--mother!
      I don't imagine that William Lee or Duane's moms will be at the Oak's finale.

    • @brianhelle7064
      @brianhelle7064 6 месяцев назад

      @@highnrising anyone of their relatives can be there. You as well as I don’t know if anyone in their family will be there or not. They could be. And I said it was just a few years after the Statler Brothers retired.

    • @highnrising
      @highnrising 6 месяцев назад

      @@brianhelle7064 22 years. Not just a few.

  • @arkyhumbos
    @arkyhumbos 5 месяцев назад

    I saw the Oaks when I was a kid on vacation in Panama City, FL. It was an all gospel concert with the other groups: Dixie Echoes, Florida Boys, and Thrasher Brothers. A couple of years later I saw Oaks bass, Richard, singing with JD Sumner & The Stamps Quartet. Little while later Richard jumped ships to the Oaks, and their long time tenor, Willie Wynn jumped ship to a quartet called Hovie Lister & The Statesmen, then Joe came to the Oaks. I got to see them a few years ago in Branson, MO and will see them soon on their farewell tour in San Antonio. What a great legacy.

  • @colleenwoodland4574
    @colleenwoodland4574 6 месяцев назад +2

    Richard looks like Robert DeNiro!
    Love their music!

    • @stevenbaggett6549
      @stevenbaggett6549 12 дней назад

      Yeah I bet his politics are different! William looks like Gandalf

  • @charlesowens7316
    @charlesowens7316 11 дней назад

    There will never be another group like the oak ridge boys

  • @toddpetrie7046
    @toddpetrie7046 6 месяцев назад +1

    Farewell tour? Damn. I'm tired of being old. Bring it Oaks.

  • @andrewj4442
    @andrewj4442 6 месяцев назад +1

    They're the B E S T! ❤😍😍😍😍

  • @jaynejohnson6233
    @jaynejohnson6233 27 дней назад

    It's so sad that you are retiring. I have never been fortunate to see you in concert. I have some disability that makes it difficult for me. But I am trying to figure out how I can see you on your last tour. May God bless you during your retirement. ❤

  • @YvonneHenley-xw8nh
    @YvonneHenley-xw8nh 6 месяцев назад

    God bless you Thank you be in my life I love you guys 🙏🙏🙏😇😍

  • @juanitashaver6694
    @juanitashaver6694 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the memories. I wish you had included Laughlin, NV. in the final tour, I'll keep checking. 1994 to the pandemic canceled it. We were there.

  • @julierichmond1486
    @julierichmond1486 4 месяца назад

    Nice guys and great songs

  • @karensanford9926
    @karensanford9926 4 месяца назад

    Love you Boys so much!!❤

  • @craigstjohn4470
    @craigstjohn4470 6 месяцев назад +1

    let them, come to Wisconsin!!/. first time since...."2017"! beaver dam fair!

  • @michael100807
    @michael100807 4 месяца назад

    saw them last night, it was awesome!

  • @newellhitchcock1699
    @newellhitchcock1699 7 месяцев назад +1

    I hope that the Oak Ridge Boys come to Maine

  • @henrypenningtonjr9616
    @henrypenningtonjr9616 7 месяцев назад +2

    ❤ I miss you

  • @dianefvann9180
    @dianefvann9180 3 месяца назад

    I ollways like the oak rage boys that or a good country group that in country music when oll the old country music Sanger is gong and the one or are retiring thay want be known more country music like

  • @phillipmoen6067
    @phillipmoen6067 7 месяцев назад +2

    Well deserved retirement I really enjoyed your growing up and listening to your music and I still listen to it to this day and I'm in my 20s. You have a farewell tour coming around Washington or Idaho God bless you guys.

  • @bobrandale4864
    @bobrandale4864 2 месяца назад

    I remember following these boys in their earlier years, and being disappointed with their last gospel-only album called "Street Gospel", and haven't been very inspired with them since then...

  • @jimmcdiarmid7308
    @jimmcdiarmid7308 6 месяцев назад

    Please come to Hawaii!!!!!!

  • @donjulio4025
    @donjulio4025 7 месяцев назад

    Oak Ridge Boys are great and Laura is very good also.

  • @hatsunamimizuno6266
    @hatsunamimizuno6266 6 месяцев назад

    You're song Elvira was the first song at our wedding reception. It has continued as a family tradition and all of the marriages are Christian marriages alive today! Ompa pa mow wa!

  • @dianefvann9180
    @dianefvann9180 3 месяца назад

    That one of my favorite song theoak rage boys signs my baby is an American made they are more songs I like

  • @williamjackson8629
    @williamjackson8629 7 месяцев назад

    Well see 3 time Missouri state fair 2 one time in Boonville October 2010 great miss

  • @Danny-jb6pg
    @Danny-jb6pg 6 месяцев назад +1

    My baby is American made, born and bred in the USA

  • @henrypenningtonjr9616
    @henrypenningtonjr9616 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great

  • @williamjackson8629
    @williamjackson8629 7 месяцев назад

    Second time in Sedalia in August fair going on and 40 year then 😊

  • @Smokeys911
    @Smokeys911 6 месяцев назад

    When did Robert DeNiro join the Oak Ridge Boys?

  • @TonyM132
    @TonyM132 6 месяцев назад

    I really hope they perform the hits from the Steve Sanders years on this farewell tour. The times I've seen them since Steve has been gone and William Lee returned, they've basically ignored all their songs from 1987-95 (except for An American Family sung with different lyrics). That is very disappointing to me.
    I just checked setlist fm, but it doesn't look like anyone has bothered to post setlists for the Oaks in a while...

  • @newellhitchcock1699
    @newellhitchcock1699 7 месяцев назад

    What channel is the show going to be in and is it going to be in You Tube ?

  • @marionripko1502
    @marionripko1502 6 месяцев назад

    🎉😢😮

  • @RockinGuy1994
    @RockinGuy1994 10 дней назад +1

    Rip Joe

  • @mikemeyers1717
    @mikemeyers1717 7 месяцев назад +6

    William Lee , sounds more like a bass singer , than Richard does ! 😂

    • @chowman007
      @chowman007 3 месяца назад

      William should have sang bass. Am convinced the harmony would have been tighter

  • @robertwunner5523
    @robertwunner5523 7 месяцев назад

    😅❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😢😢

  • @stanfordnunley2616
    @stanfordnunley2616 6 месяцев назад +1

    Maybe with their extra time off, William Lee may decide to grow a beard…😉

  • @udhoop
    @udhoop 5 месяцев назад

    Noooooo!!?

  • @benbridwell9991
    @benbridwell9991 3 месяца назад +1

    Too bad Joe won't be there.

  • @wa2k99
    @wa2k99 7 месяцев назад

    :(

  • @jgatkinson744
    @jgatkinson744 6 месяцев назад

    They have out of demand for years

  • @henrypenningtonjr9616
    @henrypenningtonjr9616 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for ..
    For Them The the years and music