Hoppers —
Consider the difference between this:
And this:
I’m actually not sure I prefer the big symphonic too-muchness of the latter version (though that wood-wind descant in the first verse is pretty neat and the brass section is a classy touch), but I don’t think anyone can listen to that earlier clip and think that the Hoppers would […]
Do the Hoppers really “average singing to over 1 million concert goers” a year, as recent press releases of theirs have claimed? (Hat tip, AD) The Singing News has them listed as doing fewer than 10 concerts in December 2007, or, counting generously, about 120 dates year. At that pace, they’d have to be singing […]
Hawkeyed reader Tom comes up with the catch of the day:
It took awhile, but the Hoppers finally made a lowkey but nonetheless public statement about the situation with Denice in their fairly recent biography. At the end of a fairly long chapter about Dean & Kim, the chapter ends with a brief passage under the […]
I’ve joked before about the Hoppers being All Nostalgia All the Time but really … it seems like the Hoppers have been celebrating their heritage for … well, since almost before they even had it. And it’s not even their 50th Anniversary year … yet. Gird thyself, dear reader.
Isn’t there a point when we reach […]
I see Hope’s Cal signed with Daywind. Good for them, I guess. The few times I’ve seen them they’ve had their act together mostly, and they clearly know how to sing (even if the vocal histrionics are still a bit too often in play). But I would thought they’d signed with Wayne Haun and […]
Recently I had a chance to hear the cut “While I Wait” from Kim Hopper’s solo project, Imagine. I had high hopes for the song, since I’ve been thinking a lot about her voice lately. The Greene’s […]
An interesting catch from a poster over at sogo: the 2004 NQC LIVE video uses the Hoppers 2003 performance. Oh my. RF wrote to wonder if it was in order to keep Claude […]
Perhaps we should set up a trust fund for young Lexus Jazz Hopper. How ’bout a nickel for every time someone asks her, “shouldn’t your middle name be ’southerngospel’?”
Helpful readers like DL have filled in the blanks for me, and so for those equally blanks slates out there, a follow up to the earlier post about Wilds & Associates, the outfit organizing the new SGM Fanfair next summer. Wilds is owned, I gather, by Randall Wilds, who usually travels with John Lanier. A […]
