The Oak Ridge Boys - He's Gonna Smile On Me
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- The current lineup of The Oak Ridge Boys as they were in 1973. Notice the clean-shaven William Lee Golden!!
Group members:
Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen, William Lee Golden, Richard Sterban
Band members:
John Rich, Mark Ellerbee, Don Breland, Tony Brown
Still love these old gospel songs, especially the way the Oak Ridge Boys sing them.
I've been listening to this song since I was a child but I hadn't heard it for many years. Until today when it came up in my spirit. So I did a search for it and here it is on you channel and I was mighty blessed. Thank God for Jesus xx
Amen same here!
bill golden best baritone for 51yrs. amen.
One of my favorite Oak Ridge Boys Songs! Always am singing to it with them. 🤘👏🏻
If I say my prayers at night
And treat people right
He's gonna smile on me 🙏🤠❤️
So true
Great inspiring old song from The Oak Ridge Boys. We need more music like this today.
Saw them tonight 46 years from this video..They all sang great and Richard still sounds just as deep..this is an example of a band who laid off the booze and cigs because their voices are still great 2019. I don't know any band besides the Rolling Stones that's lasted this long.
man this song makes me feel good. am I the only one?
AMEN
Love these guys!..Hair for days!!
My generation. Cannot believe we actually walked around looking like that. too funny. Still singing great music to this day. Love these guys.
One of my favorite Oak Ridge Boys Songs of all-time. Sing it every time I listen to it
That's great. They are my heroes! I can't remember seeing them in a video this old. It looked like they were wearing wigs! Ha-ha! I'm still a huge fan, I don't care how old they get. I forgot what Golden looked like without the beard! Duane Allen, too!
I can't help but get tickled at their wardrobe. Bless their hearts, they look like used car salesmen.
yup, lotta hair on that stage
What are you talking about that was style in 1970.
@@leemorgan4037 yep it was
Great song,if this was 1970 that would have made me 1 year,so I can't possibly remembered this.
What a great song
1973
Caption on screen says “circa 1970”. Joe Bonsal is in this video. He didn’t join the Oak Ridge Boys until 1973.
I have the "Best Hits", and this Gospel tune is wonderful. They are Awesome.Love Them!!
Wow, is this an oldie. Richard Sterban was with The Stamps (backup for Elvis) from 1970-1972 then left to join the Oaks. This video looks to be from 1972-1974 from the looks of all that hair. Beautiful song & nice to see Willie Lee's face.
Micki1958 Probably about 1974. Joe Bonsall joined them in late '73.
It's hard to believe that William Lee Golden has been singing Baritone with this group for 51 years.
+landrethm Except for the period Steve Sanders was with the group. RIP Steve.
It's hard to believe he lasted
landrethm yep
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I always liked this song
I'm listening to this song that a friend recommended. She said she learned to sing this song at age four.
back when bill golden was label elvis p. of gospel music.
Have times changed since 1973 which is when Joe Bonsall joined the group, Duane Allen has been an Oakridge Boy since 1965, Richard Sterban 1971 or 72 and Bill Golden since 1963
Yes, that is William Lee, before the beard. And yes, Richard came around in '72. This video is from 1973.
Yes, Richard joined the group in October of 1972.
Awesome. Just awesome. Long live the Oak Ridge Boys. Can't wait to see them at the Barnstable County Fair.
OMG, Duane looks soo different without his beard. At first I couldn't believe that was him. William Lee looks different without his beard too. I would had never known that was him. Boy. Richard and Joe haven't changed one bit. Nice vidoe.
If Duane's sideburns were any bigger they would have their own zip code
lol
LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
Try'n to believe this today. Great song, and great job.
the date would be closer to the mid 70s. Joe and Richard weren't with the band yet in 1970.
I'm on the list to perform special music at church in a few weeks and have been looking for a perfect song to play. This is it! Found it! Awesome!
Notice the only moustached one is Joe Bonsall - I saw a recent photo of the group (the same four members from this) and there was a direct opposite - all had beards/goatees/moustaches except Bonsall, who was cleanshaven!
i like this song i hope do treat people right and he is smile on me noe. that is a blessing.
this is from a great album, i dont remember the title of it however. it had songs like "baptism of jesse taylor" and "freedom for the stallion". ive got it in a box of old vinyl, makes me wanna get it out and give it a spin.
was it Rockland Road
@@jennifursun3303 I have almost all the Oak Ridge Boys vinyl collection from the Gospel years until the last album that was released on vinyl the 1987 album heartbeat. "He's Gonna Smile On Me" is from the album "The Best Of The Oak Ridge Boys and was recorded on Columbia Records where after this the 1st 2 country albums "Yall Come Back Saloon" and "Room Service" were on ABC Dot Records. When they recorded the 3rd country project the Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived they had switched to MCA records which was their label home for the next 18 years or so. The Best of was actually recorded at CBS Recording Studios and Superior Sound. In 1999 the Oaks signed with Spring Hill Music where I was the Director or Radio Promotions then. It was a highlight of my music career getting to work with them on 3 recordings, "From The Heart", "An Inconvenient Christmas" and "Colors" They were so great to work with. However "The Best Of The Oak Ridge Boys" was not recorded at their studios on Rockland Road they had for many years. I still run into Duane and Joe quite often in the Publix grocery store in Hendersonville. Still going strong after all these years except these 3 months being off the road from cancellations due to COVID 19. I am sure like many of us who travel in bands as I sing in a national gospel band "Jordan's Shore" after spending 20 years in the Record Label side of things are ready to get back on the road. The Oaks are still some of the best and are a favorite of my 7 year old youngest son who has Down Syndrome and he thinks no group measures up to the Oaks.
@@ericmelton5003 how cool; for you they were at the first gospel concert i ever went to in my late teens. sadly for me the autographed copy of a piece of sheet music i bout(I'm Gonna Keep On Holding On) got lost with all my other music when my late mom and I moved from the home I grew up in. had notebooks of sheet music and hymn books and music from two churches, none of which i can replace. i wonder, did they ever put on CD a recording of my favorite song, Put Your Arms Around Me Blessed Jesus if so where could I get a copy. if you see any of them tell them hi from a fan my best to your song and your family God Bless
@@ericmelton5003 the album is just a self title. It is not the Best Of.
ONe thing for sure...the Elvis look was going strong at the time. I saw them in about 1974 or 1975 in a high school in Southern Illinois.
If you know the arrival and departure of past members, this is late 73 earlier 74
Anyway you cut it it was a great time in decades past, I was about 14 at the time and New in the Lord. These guys highly influenced me
Thanks for the beautiful message, Boys!
absolutely fantastic! I have this album and it is a winner. strange to see william lee without a beard though:).
WOW. they sure don't look like that now.
Love there sound.
Duane Allen sure looks different with the long hair & even longer sideburns before he grew his beard. Don Williams was the same way-long sideburns before growing the beard. Roy Clark also had long sideburns (which I didn't like) before cutting them shorter, but he was always clean shaven. On the other hand, his contemporary, Buck Owens, was clean shaven before growing a beard in later years. Bill Golden also looked different clean shaven, long hair, no hat or bandanna on his head before growing the beard that gave him that 'Mountain Man' look.
duly noted, i might take you up on the offer some day.
Elvis sure had an influence on many artists with the side burns!
Hey Kyle - you'll know this. I remember Joe describing running into Bill in the supermarket...and an icy reception...followed by a visit to Golden Era later that evening (I think he talked about them mending fences that night and even singing). Do you have that interview?
oh those suits! but what a sound....
Thanks for this!! I first met the Oaks in 1974 and this is how they looked!! And that is the same band they had then - Tony Brown, Don Breland, Mark Ellerbee, & John Rich. What memories that brought back!! But that is definitely not 1970, like someone else said, Joe & Richard were not in the group in 1970.
You are right. I saw Joe with the Keystone Qt from Pennsylvania at a college in Kansas in 72-73 so this video is probably in 1973-74. Also saw the Oaks often in Wichita in before this and Willie Wynn sang tenor. I miss him singing high on Jesus is Coming Soon. One evening in 1972 at the Century Two Auditorium in Wichita JD Sumner and the Stamps, the Oak Ridge Boys, and the Rambos put on a drama/play of "The Three Nails." I bought the record! I was sad when the Oaks left off Southern Gospel to go Country.
excellent
I like their high heels! Sound great though!
Love the Rhodes piano on this
who's the baritone next to richard? (that isn't William is it?)
Sorry you had to wait 11 years for an answer lol..... yes, its william.
And Duane Allen was also Clean shaven, just like Bill Golden was
Has to be after 1973, cuz that’s when Joe joined.
Between the suits and the hair... Oy!
i'm with you!!
@GalaticJoker JD sumner and Richard Sterban use to sing together with the Stamps Quartet singing backup for Elvis ..... Jd hired Richard into the Stamps .... Jd would work the bigger dates with the group, so when Jd was there, there were actually five singers in the group, but on the smaller dates, Sterban was the only bass singer .... you can find some videos on here with Sterban and Sumner at the same time, but Sumners voice overpowers Sterbans, though I think Sterban is a better singer
Yes, odd that JD Sumner would hire Sterban as they both sing so low but having Sterban do the low singing if JD was not there would make sense.
He sure is different now. I would never say that was William.
wow...still sound the same...cept w/golden now
How old are you.
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wait...golder without a beard...wow
They gotta be wearing Elvis wigs. William Lee is sure a looker without that beard.
1975 or 1976
Closer to 1974, no Willie or Noel
That is Golden. That is the exact same group now.
More like 1973, not 1970
Which one is William Lee Golden?
Second from the right... between Duane and Richard
Third to the right
like him better with out the beard
Yes That is William Lee!!!
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They look so different. . .I'm so glad they changed their look soon after. . .
For The Love Of Seattle up yours
@@daveb.4460 If you got it you wouldn't say "Up Yours" The Oak Ridge Boys needed to go country because this style of music on the way out as a whole. The new Oaks were needing a change of pace.
The first man singing looks like an Owl.
@bluegrasscanuck Jesus gave us two, and only two (did I say 2?) commandments... [1] Love God with all you have, and [2] Love everyone else as much as yourself. Matthew 22:36. That's it. Only 2. He never once mentioned that He was giving a gift that we are required to receive. He simply told us how we are to live if we are to obey God. Just 2. No more. Only 2.
Believe whatever you wish, but please don't put words in Christ's mouth; He probably doesn't like that very much. 2. Got it?
i didnt think richard was with the oaks till after 72 when he left Elvis ...hmmmm learn something new every hour
Jesus, the 70's were a fashion disaster..