Biography
The Oak Ridge Boys
Effective period / Period of releases: 1963 - 2021
Members: Greg Gordon (2), Mark Gray (4), Herman Harper, Duane Allen, Richard Sterban, William Golden, Gary McSpadden, Joe Bonsall (2), Jim Hamill, Mark Ellerbee, Calvin Newton, Smitty Gatlin, Tommy Fairchild, Willie Wynn (2), Steve Sanders (8)
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 The Oak Ridge Quartet 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.