Word of the day: deference\DEF-uh-runss\ noun: respect and esteem due a superior or an elder; also : affected or ingratiating regard for another's wishes.
Vestal Goodman sans Bee Hive!
Today's entry is called "The Happy Goodmans" in reference to a famous gospel group from Morristown, TN whom I grew up listening to and watching on the Sunday morning Huff-Cook Gospel Hour, when I was a kid. This morning, I went out to the car to run an errand and the radio station was set to a country music station in Bristol and, as Bristolian Sunday morning programming typically is, it was playing gospel music. The announcer was introducing a group who was influenced by "The Happy Goodmans". I didn't realize that Vestel Goodman, the lead singer had recently died. I remember her and her big hair. She was something akin to the Gospel version of Kate from the B-52s. Once I recall watching some Hollywood game show with Chuck Woolery and him mentioning a "Happy Goodman Hairdo". I must admit, The Happy Goodmans was a great gospel group and Vestel, yes she sure had the "Bee Hive" doo going on.
Vestal certainly has earned the title "Queen of Gospel", but I must say this; there is NO caucasian who can belt out gospel music like an African American. The true gospel queen is reserved for someone of that ethnicity.
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