Joe Bonsall, the charismatic tenor who spent 50 years singing with the celebrated country group the Oak Ridge Boys, has died at the age of 76.
CEDAR PARK, TEXAS - JANUARY 15: Joe Bonsall of The Oak Ridge Boys performs in concert at HEB Center on January 15, 2019 in Cedar Park, Texas. Bonsall’s death in a statement on their website: “As a 50-year member of the American music group the Oak Ridge Boys, Joe was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and inducted into the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame.”, which was released last year.
“Joe loved to sing. He loved to read,” the statement continued. “He loved to write. He loved to play banjo. He loved working on the farm. And he loved the Philadelphia Phillies. But Jesus and his family always came first—and we will see him again on the Promised Day.” Bonsall spent just over 50 years in the Oak Ridge Boys: He joined the group in 1973 and announced hisat the beginning of the year because of his ALS diagnosis. At the time Bonsall announced that he would step back from the road, it was reported that the Oak Ridge Boys planned to return to the studio in late January to record another album with producer Dave Cobb.
Bonsall was born and raised in Philadelphia, and began his music career in Pennsylvania, moving to Harrisburg in the late Sixties to sing with the gospel group, the Keystone Quartet, alongside, Richard Sterban. Through the gospel world, Sterban and Bonsall got to know Duane Allen and William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys; and when the band found themselves in need of a bass and tenor singer in the early Seventies, they enlisted the pair. .
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