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Echoes 2 Alubum
Click Here for the second album - Echoes 2. Chapel Singers Tour Book Front Cover Click on the image for a larger version! Top row (all men) Left to right: Gary Grigg--Marshall Highsmith--Robt Barrow--Larry Sledge--Larry Brown-- Ernie Ogilvie-- Bob Jones --John Crenshaw--Gary Dempsey--and Larry Lemmon (10 all together) Second row all women) left to right: Sharon Farrar--Judith Ann Harbison--Oleta Barrow--Jean Lobenstein--Sue McCann--Edie Wheeler--Lynn Montroy--Mary Friend----Carolyn Ann Porter--- (9 all together) First Row all women left to right: Margaret Bartels-- Kay Blessing--Faye Andrews--Margie Vines-- Sheila Tedrick (Question Mark)- Ann Clifton--Deloise Chaney--Sarah Pruitt--Charles Gray, Director -- ( Total 9) | |
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 | On tour in the northern Illinois area, this group sang on the nationally broadcast (radio) "Don McNeil Breakfast Club." We sang the popular arrangement of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
After the show, walking along State Street, we saw a group of people walking towards us. In the middle of the group, getting all of the attention, was Heavy Weight Boxing Champion, Casius Clay....later to become Muhammed Ali. Of course, we met him, shook hands....as I recall, my comment was "Hello, Champ." ("Never-at-a-loss-for-the-right-words" Gray, they call me). On the same tour, we also sang with the Billy Graham Crusade Choir. What a trip. During the summer prior to coming to Illinois, I directed the Baylor Religious Hour Choir (Baylor University, of course). That choir tour passed through Illinois. We sang the same song in Springfield at the crypt in the Lincoln Monument...surrounded with marble, underfoot, overhead and all around, you can imagine the huge, reverberating sound that made. Serveral tourist were in there....a few tears flowed. That was another exciting experience. Left to right: Oleta Barrow--Margie Vines--Mary Jo Brock-- Lynn Montroy--Edie Wheeler--Charles (Chuck) Gray, Directing |