Discography
"The Vintage Years" 1954
The Blackwood
Brothers Quartet
Radio Shows of the 30s, 40s, & 50s
Volumes 1 & 2
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The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
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1934 - Choctaw County. First
picture of original Blackwood Brothers: Roy,
James, RW, and Doyle.
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1934 - The original Blackwood Brothers
Quartet: Roy (Ron & RW Jr's Grandfather),
James, RW (Ron and RW Jr's Dad) and Doyle
when they went on the radio in Jackson,
Mississippi.
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1940's at KMA Radio
Station in Shenandoah, Iowa. Blackwood
Brothers Quartet Members and Wives: Lavez
and Doyle Blackwood. Susie and Roy
Blackwood, Mim and James Blackwood, Elaine
and RW Blackwood, Marie and Hilton Griswold,
Ruth and Bill Lyles.
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Blackwood Kids:
Cecil Blackwood, Ron Blackwood, Billy Lyles,
Barbara Griswold, Jimmy Blackwood, Terry
Blackwood, RW Blackwood, Jr., Gary Lyles,
Larry Griswold, and Kaye Blackwood.
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1947 - Bill Lyles, RW,
James, Roy, Doyle Blackwood & pianist Hilton
Griswold at KMA Radio, Shenandoah, Iowa |
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1954 The Blackwood
Brothers Quartet - bottom left to right,
James Blackwood, 2nd tenor; RW Blackwood,
baritone; Bill Shaw, 1st tenor; Bill Lyles,
bass; Jack Marshall, pianist. They had
just won the Arthur Godfrey Show in New York
City.
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The Blackwood Brothers & The McGuire
Sisters at CBS Studio in New York as they
joined together to sing on Arthur Godfrey's
CBS-TV morning program. The show
received its highest ranking ever!
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A crowd of 5,000 attending a Blackwood
Brothers singing in Memphis at Ellis
Auditorium. Elvis lived in the
Lauderdale Housing Projects close to the
auditorium; and RW, Sr. would let Elvis
Presley in the back door because he was too
poor to buy tickets.
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Left: 1954 - Blackwood Brothers with Herald
Krelstein, general manager of radio station
WMPS as he presented Memphis' Mayor Frank
Tobey's proclamation naming June 18
"Blackwood Brothers Day" in Memphis, TN.
The final concert June 29, 1954 - Gulfport,
Mississippi. Last concert of the
original Blackwood Brothers before the plane
crash. Bill Shaw, James Blackwood,
Bill Lyles, and RW Blackwood.
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RW & Tennessee Ernie Ford.
"Daddy caught the fish and TN
Ernie ate the bait", quote from
Ron Blackwood.
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It was in this twin Beechcraft plane
that RW and Bill lost their lives.
Also killed in the crash was 18-year-old
Johnny Ogburn on June 30, 1954 in
Clanton, Alabama.
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RW Blackwood and Bill Lyles lost their lives
in a plane crash on June 30, 1954.
This is the exact position in which they
were seated at the time of the tragedy.
Gospel music would be changed forever.
First picture made of re-organized quartet.
Bill Shaw, James Blackwood, Cecil Blackwood,
and J.D. Sumner.
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5,000 people attended the funeral of RW
Blackwood and Bill Lyles making it the
South's most attended funeral to date and is
currently only surpassed by Elvis Presley's
funeral.
Family of the late RW Blackwood:
Mrs. Elaine Blackwood and her sons, Ronnie,
13, and Winston, 11.
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