Lorrie Morgan
Born June 27, 1959
Although she spent most of her life singing, Lorrie Morgan didn't become a star until the early '90s, when she scored a string of Top Ten country hits. Born Loretta Lynn Morgan, she was the daughter of Grand Ole Opry star George Morgan and made her professional debut at age 13 on the Opry, where her rendition of amp;"Paper Roses" received a standin..Although she spent most of her life singing, Lorrie Morgan didn't become a star until the early '90s, when she scored a string of Top Ten country hits.

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K.T. Oslen

The Oak Ridge Boys are a country and gospel group that is based in the United States. The group was founded in 1945 as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular during the 1950s. Their name was changed to the Oak Ridge Boys in the early 1960s, and they remained a gospel-oriented group until the late 1970s, when they changed their image and concentrated more on country and pop music. The band's current lineup consists of lead singer (second tenor) Duane Allen, baritone William Lee Golden, tenor Joe Bonsall, and bass Richard Sterban.

After spending many years dealing with problems such as labels that did not seem to want to promote them, studio breakdowns, and record companies going out of business, their fortunes changed when they signed with Spring Hill Records in 2000. In the first four years of teaming with Dove Award-winning producer Michael Sykes, they made a full length gospel album (From The Heart), another Christmas album (Inconvenient Christmas), a patriotic album (Colors), a bluegrass album (The Journey), and recorded gospel songs to be added to a special edition version of From The Heart that was available only from Feed The Children. Later, to recoup some of the costs of making the album for Feed the Children, the label took those new songs, two from The Journey, and freshly cut versions of some of their previous gospel hits to make up their 2005 Common Thread album. They then made another Christmas album and had plans to record Fresh Cuts, which would have contained some new songs and some newly recorded versions of some of their hits. These plans were stalled by MCA releasing some of their country hits on a new compilation.

In 2006 the group completed a new album, Front Row Seats, on Spring Hill Records. The album is a return to mainstream country music with modern arrangements and song selection.

Longtime lead singer Smitty Gatlin died in 1972 at the young age of 37, following a bout with cancer. Cat Freeman, tenor who replaced Allred, succumbed to a fatal heart attack in 1989 at 67. Herman Harper, the bass from the group's early years, died in December 1993. Joe Allred, tenor during the early 1950s, died in 1997. Steve Sanders, baritone from 1987 through 1995, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 10 June 1998. Noel Fox, bass singer from 1969 through 1972, died at age 63 on 10 April 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee, after surgery following a series of strokes.