A Tribute

What Music Influenced The Rambos

We lived in Evansville, Indiana,after we were just newly wed. One evening, we
drove down to Nashville, Tennessee to a concert at the old Ryman Auditorium
and heard the Blackwood Brothers, The Statesmen Quartet, The Harmoniers
and a group called The Sons of Song. When the Sons of Song sang that night,
something special happened to us. They were unique because they did not have
a bass singer and there weren't 4 of them--just three people out there singing
harmony. We had been doing the same thing, and everybody was telling us it was
wrong. They said that you couldn't sing inverted harmony; you were only supposed
to sing your part. We took their album home after the concert. When we got back to
Evansville about 3:00 in the morning we sat up the rest of the night and played that
Sons of Song album. It had such an impact on our lives. I never even went to bed that
night. The next morning, I went straight to work from listening to that record. It let
us know that there was a possibility of having a group without being men singing
all 4 parts and playing the piano. It didn't work that way with the Sons of Song. They
not only stole the show that night,but they stole our hearts as well.

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