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By 1950 the Jordanaires were becoming noted for their spirited renditions of songs associated with both the black and white gospel traditions. They continued to mine this musical vein after signing with Capitol in 1951. In addition the group had begun singing background on records by country hitmakers such as Foley (“Just a Closer Walk with Thee”). Their regular spots on the NBC network portion of the Grand Ole Opry and on 1955’s Eddy Arnold Time, a popular syndicated TV show of the day, brought the famed quartet into households across the nation.
Although the Jordanaires’ gospel albums would help them win election to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2001, the group is best known for the signature background harmonies they have provided for dozens of other stars. Individual members recorded with Elvis Presley beginning in 1956, and from 1958 into the early 1970s the foursome regularly backed him in the studio and in films. Early Presley hits such as “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” and “It’s Now or Never” captured the group’s special sound and led to recording work for them with other rock & rollers, including RICKY NELSON and GENE VINCENT.
During the 1960s and beyond, the Jordanaires often worked as many as four sessions a day. Recordings they made with Ferlin Husky (“Gone,” widely regarded as the first hit recording to embody the Nashville Sound), JIM REEVES (“Four Walls”), and PATSY CLINE (“Crazy”) best exemplified the smooth, pop-influenced side of Nashville’s multi-faceted recording scene, while the sounds they added to hits including Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me,” Johnny Horton’s “The Battle of New Orleans,” Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man,” Conway Twitty’s “Hello, Darlin’,” Kenny Rogers’s “Lucille,” and George Jones’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today” proved the quartet’s versatility. The group also backed pop acts such as Connie Francis, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, and Julie Andrews. The Jordanaires have been heard on Grammy-winning recordings in each of the past five decades, as well as on national television and radio ads such as Coca Cola’s “We’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” campaign. Their voices have been heard on untold millions of records sold worldwide.
The Jordanaires’ contributions to the Nashville recording industry include the system of studio music notation first popularized by Neal Matthews Jr. and known internationally as the Nashville Number System. Advocates for broadcasting and film performers, the Jordanaires were also instrumental in establishing the Nashville offices of national performers’ unions representing radio and television artists and screen actors. After Hawkins died in 1982, Duane West joined the Jordanaires, but due to illness he left the group and was replaced in 2000 by Louis Nunley. Curtis Young joined in 2000 following Matthews’s death.
In the year 2001 the Jordanaires celebrated their fifty-first year in the music business and their election to the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2002, in conjunction with Larry Ford & the Light Crust Doughboys, they won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Album, for We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music: The James Blackwood Tribute Album. Frequent headliners in Las Vegas, they have made personal appearances worldwide, carrying country music around the globe. - John Rumble
- Adapted from the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s Encyclopedia of Country Music, published by Oxford University Press.
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