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  • The Oak Ridge Boys
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  • Johnny_Cash
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  • American country music groups
  • MCA Records artists
  • Vocal quartets
  • Grammy Award winners
  • American gospel musical groups
  • Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
  • Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductees
  • Grand Ole Opry members
  • RCA Records Nashville artists
  • Southern gospel performers
  • Starday Records artists
  • 1947 establishments in Tennessee
  • Musical groups established in 1947
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  • The Oak Ridge Boys is a country and gospel group that is based in the United States. The group has a history dating back to the 1940s as [a2246881] and became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s. Their name was officially changed to the Oak Ridge Boys in 1961, and they remained a gospel-oriented group until the mid-1970s when they changed their image and concentrated on country music.
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  • The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet. The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s. Their name was officially changed to the Oak Ridge Boys in the early 1960s, and they remained a gospel group until the mid-1970s, when they changed their image and concentrated on country music.The lineup which produced their most world famous and most well-known country and crossover hits (such as %22Elvira%22, %22Bobbie Sue%22, and %22American Made%22) consists of Duane Allen (lead), Joe Bonsall (tenor), William Lee Golden (baritone), and Richard Sterban (bass). Golden and Allen joined the group in the mid-1960s, and Sterban and Bonsall joined in the early 1970s. Aside from an eight-year gap (1987–95) when Golden left the group and was replaced, this lineup has been together since 1973 and continues to tour and record.
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  • The Oak Ridge Boys
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