He will be down in printers alley with Irish Laddy & Old Harry Peters…can’t wait for twitters and reviews from there… should be interesting!!! lol

Had the same thought after I wrote my entry. But it was so short very few ppl remember.

Hi To ALL MY friends in Nashville… how are y’all getting along with out Dr. DH???

Irishlad, actually Richard hits an Eb on Working on a Building. George Younce also hit that note on a Johnny Cash song I think.

I still think K/I/M/T were the best 4 for GC. However, the J/J/M/T and the J/J/D/T quartets were almost as good.

I opened one night for the group #3 above, and they were fantastic. Tim, that night, gave the best gospel message in 7 minutes I have ever heard from a sgm stage. He was unbelievable.

Ernie Phillips is a tremendous talent. I have also shared the same program as him (now as a soloist), and he is a gentleman. His son Eric (MTT) is, imho, an even better tenor.

Chris Collins was also as good a tenor as the Kingsmen ever had.

As to the Goodmans, I really don’t know. You know how I feel about that whole scenario- and the HGF will have to answer for themselves. They could be vindictive, but they were proud people.

Jim Hamill was a spiritual man, a straight shooter, and very conservative- many of that ilk, and in that generation, had a problem with alot the Oaks said and did, and how they lived. Each will give an account of themselves to God.

Thanks.

They were different than Brian, Ivan, Mike & Tim… and when I said before that Jay was a screamin’ tenor I meant NO DISRSPECT…I loved Kingsmen Screaming Tenors… Jay (although never a Kingmen) had the guts to go places other ppl just dreamed about and wasn’t too skeered to miss it and slide down to something.

Ernie Phillips will always be my favorite Kingsmen Tenor with Squeaky being next. Squeaky had his own niche.

Irish Laddy, CVH, Old Harry Peters & dr joe… what do you think?? (& any others) Oh & dr. joe… We know you never left. ;-))) I prayed for you while you were gone that you would get a touch of SWEET SPIRIT!! Now if sg fan could play nice with others!!

While this is Technically a Kingsmen thread about Jim Hamill & dr. joe chimed in let me address a subject that many ppl have surprisingly wrote me off line or in person instead of here for what ever reason… but they asked me…

“With your feelings about how The Goodman’s did the Oaks, how do you swing liking Jim because he caused them some trouble too!!!”

That always bothered me some because I just really respected what he (Hamill) did with The Kingsmen as far as putting other talent over and being the Best MC EVER!!

Even if I did think his line that JD loved so much… “Let’s give Jesus a BiG Hand” was about as hackencheap as a stand up comic saying to a crowd… “Let’s give it up for the Fighting Men and Women in The Middle East.”

But my buddy Jeff Hullender played bass with Gold City and I went to many of those joint dates [KingsGold]… and I got to talk to him about it one night in knoxville. Yes Red Man and ALL…would you believe too we were in the Knoxville Colusium Theater while pro rasslin’ was going on in Colusium and we were over there with Jerry THE KING Lawler. Between matches he told me how much he regretted his part in it and how WRONG it was…{he still had some bitterness at the time of the incident about how things ended with him and the Oaks when he sang with them}… a few months later The Kingsmen sang on The Grand Ole Opry and then later with The Gatlin’s in Las Vegas!! LoL;-)))

Funniest thing is Goodman’s did many of the same things later as far as singing with George Jones and in some secular places… but they NEVER APOLOGIZED!!

Don’t ya think they SHOULD HAVE???