Jeff Stice

#ProductPlacement #Timex

Oak Ridge Quartet

The crowd always went wild when Tommy Fairchild played his invisible piano!

Hovie Lister and the Statesmen

Wow. Looks like Hovie and the boys found a GoPro in the woods.

Dave Weston

"Tingling Gospel Music." I'm not even going to ask what that is.

Mark Lowry

That joker's been at it for a LONG time. I bet he's tired.

Wendy Bagwell & the Sunliters

Little Jan Buckner's hairdo was so big, it had its own room on the bus. And that's a fact with my hand up.

The Holden Family

Look at my socks. Look at them!

The Statesmen

OK, this time it's just a drawing of a bus...but it's still a bus!

The Speer Family

Hmm. Just looks like a bunch of white people to me...

The Redemptions

I can't put my finger on it...but there's something a little creepy about this one...

The Mullins

The record was going to be called 20/20 Vision. So The Mullins commandeered the "vision center" at the local Walmart for the cover photo shoot. Now THAT'S artistic vision. (See what I did there?) 

Dottie Rambo

Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?

The Christianaires

Plaid for days...

The Kingsmen Quartet

"On Record." Get it? Too bad Photoshop was still a distant dream...

Gary McSpadden

"Gary." Apparently, Mr. McSpadden was such a huge star, no last name was necessary.

This album was nominated for a Dove Award for Best Chest Hair. 

The Blackwood Brothers Quartet

Poor little Bill Shaw (on the left). When he took the job with the Blackwood Brothers, they didn't tell him that the tenor suit was one-size-fits-all...

The Shuffler Family

The jackets...the photography...my goodness...

The Dixie Echoes

"The plaid! The plaid!"

The Harmonica Minstrels

A whole record of people in tuxedos playing harmonicas. You could either listen to this...or have your fingernails removed one at a time. 

Lorin Whitney & Ralph Platt

Who would've ever thought to combine pipe organ sounds with bird calls? Well, Lorin and Ralph, that's who!

Merrill Womach

...when Merrill Womach discovered overdubbing.

Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart

Nominee for Mother of All Album Titles:

"Flying Missiles, Atomic Bombs and the
Second Coming of Jesus Christ"

Fred Lowery

Without a doubt, one of the best whistling albums in my entire collection. The whistling genre doesn't always get its due. (This record should won the Grammy for Best Whistling Album in 1967. Fred was robbed.) 

By the way, if you say "Professional whistler" real fast, it sounds a lot like "professional wrestler."

From his bio:

Fred Lowery was the most successful professional whistler of the 1940s and 1950s...Lowery's place among whistlers is rather like that of Art Tatum's among pianists. Fats Waller is reputed to have said one night when he spotted Tatum in his audience, "God is in the house."...His technique was so advanced and sophisticated that there really was no comparison..."People sometimes ask me what attributes make a great whistler," he once wrote. "Well, I think they're really just the same as for any other musician. He needs musical sense--good phrasing, good timing, good improvisational instincts--and mastery over his instrument, which in this case is his whistle."

Teen Challenge of Greater Philadelphia

...with a guest appearance by Blue Oyster Cult, maybe?

The New-Born Singers

One look at this bunch and it's obvious that they're just your average, run-of-the-mill heroin addicts.