Hugh Gordon Stoker, leader of Country Music Hall of Fame vocal quartet The Jordanaires ... vocal unit for country recording sessions, adding gospel-style harmonies to recordings by Foley, Hank ...

Elvis Presley never stopped humming gospel songs. "He loved to sing spirituals because they told a story," said Ray Walker, a singer with The Jordanaires, the legendary spiritual quartet that sang ...

Stoker, who along with the Jordanaires played Las Vegas regularly over the past four decades and was elected to the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame, died Wednesday at his home in ...

Yet his backup groups throughout his career - The Jordanaires, The Imperials ... Presley's only three Grammy awards were given for his own gospel-music recordings. Presley recorded three gospel ...

He was originally hired as a pianist, but by 1951, the Jordanaires had evolved into ... addition to their warm and capable versions of Gospel songs, such as “Noah.” In 1955, the quartet ...

In 1958, Ray Walker joined the legendary Nashville-based singing group, The Jordanaires, as its bass singer. That line-up of the group – Gordon Stoker on first tenor, Neil Matthews on second ...

The Jordanaires originated in Missouri and came ... Rumble said they drew on both black and white gospel music, as well as many of the hymns Stoker knew by heart from his childhood in rural ...