Overheard on the radio

In the old days, people purchased radios for entertainment purposes. Southern Gospel radio is still entertaining to listen to, but unfortunately, a good deal of that entertainment is unintentional.

Yesterday afternoon, I heard this on the local radio (WLRD, heard at 12:35 PM): “That was [song name] by the Northmen. I don’t know why they call themselves the Northmen – sounds like there is a woman or two in that group.”

Oh, my.

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10 Responses to “Overheard on the radio”

1. Andrew Fountain says:

   March 17, 2009 at 8:29 am

   oops…

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2. Dean Adkins says:

   March 17, 2009 at 8:38 am

   Well, we always hear the that standard cliche…”singing the lady’s part is …”.

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3. Meagan Williams says:

   March 17, 2009 at 9:35 am

   Oh goodness…

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4. Casey says:

   March 17, 2009 at 2:49 pm

   Wow… We listen to enLighten on XM, so my family plays trivia games. We try to guess who’s singing before we push the button that tells us who and what song… almost always when it turns out to be the Northmen, someone guesses a group with a lady…

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5. Samuel says:

   March 17, 2009 at 4:07 pm

   I heard a clip of “Love Will Roll the Clouds Away” on their website, and it doesn’t sound like they have a woman.

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6. GospelMusicFan says:

   March 18, 2009 at 4:37 am

   Sounds like you are making a compliment to the tenor of the Northmen.
   The Northmen out of Fort Wayne, IN does a great job keeping southern gospel music regional artists active in heartland of Ameica. Regional artists are the back bone of the southern gospel music industry. There are alot more regional artists than national known SG artists. Maybe about 1800 or so regional artists and 200 of the national stage variety.

   Check out GospelGigs, Smokey Mountain Gospel and Gospel Music Fan on the Artists page.

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7. Samuel says:

   March 18, 2009 at 1:18 pm

   Even if the tenor sounds like a woman, it keeps it traditional. Look athe “Oak Ridge Boys”. Their tenor from the 60’s and 70’s sounded like a woman.

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8. Quaid says:

   March 24, 2009 at 3:08 pm

   OH MY LAND!!!!!!!!!!
   …. what can I say as I’m laughing?……That’s bad……. wow.
   The scary thing of it is that I know a guy who filled in with them alot last year. I don’t know if he’s on the recording of the song WLRD played or not, but……….. MAN, I could have some fun with that one!

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9. Quaid says:

   March 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm

   Has anyone ever heard a group called the Mark Tra Melle Trio ?

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10. Amy Rogers says:

    March 24, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    A DJ out here (back when we had an SG station) used to say a song was by the “Kingdom Hairs.”

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