by James Hales | May 18, 2022 | LP Review, Reviews
“Better Hurry Up” was the most unique recording the Happy Goodmans ever released. Sadly, this 1979 recording would be the last recorded effort for Howard, Sam, Rusty and Vestal, as a collective unit, until The Reunion was released in 1990. Recorded at Woodland Sound...
by James Hales | May 11, 2022 | LP Review, Reviews
Sometime in mid to late 1977, Johnny Cook had returned to the Goodmans, as had Eddie Crook, upon Johnny Minick’s departure. After their return to the group, work began on this recording, which was probably their biggest musical endeavor to date, and it was a slight...
by James Hales | May 4, 2022 | LP Review, Reviews
We have finally come to the album that is my all-time favorite album. From the very first time I heard it, I fell in love with this record. I literally have it so engrained on my brain that I can just about quote all the monologue of the entire album from beginning to...
by James Hales | Apr 27, 2022 | LP Review, Reviews
The time between when “Covered in Warmth” was released and the release of this album, the group once again, experienced a good bit of change. By late 1975, Eddie Crook had left the group to focus on studio work, enter Johnny Minick and his long association with the...
by James Hales | Apr 20, 2022 | LP Review, Reviews
She’s back!!!Much to the delight of fans everywhere, Vestal returns to the group with their 1975 release, “Covered in Warmth”. Though she only sings one song on the album, it’s like a breath of fresh air and the group sounds refreshed as well! While some Goodman fans...
by James Hales | Apr 13, 2022 | LP Review, Reviews
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. 1974 was a very exciting, yet uncertain time for the Goodmans. The Happy Goodman Family left the Gospel Singing Jubilee television show by early 1973. By 1974, they had begun work on their own TV show, “The Happy...
