Homeland Harmony Quartet

The Homeland Harmony Quartet was an American gospel group founded in 1935.
The original lineup of the quartet was Otis Leon McCoy, Doyle Blackwood, Fred Calvin Maples, and B.C. Robinson. The group had lasting ties to the Church of God and went through more than fifty line-up changes in a career that spanned thirty years.
In 1943, tenor Connor Brandon Hall joined the quartet. He would remain with the group until his death in 1992. Other notables to sing with the group include basses Big Jim Waits and Johnny Atkinson, Lee Roy Abernathy and baritone James McCoy. The line-up of Hall, Abernathy, J. McCoy, Shorty Bradford, and A.D.Soward that formed in 1947 is widely considered to have been a seminal influence on both pop and further gospel musical stylings.
Personnel.
TENOR<br>
Connor Hall 1942-1989<br>
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LEAD<br>
Otis McCoy 1942-1944<br>
Shorty Bradford 1946-1948, 1953-1954<br>
Paul Stringfellow 1948-1950<br>
Bobby Shaw 1950-1952, 1987-1989<br>
Wayne Groce 1952-1953<br>
Harold Lane 1954-1955<br>
Jim Cole 1955-1956<br>
Tommy Rainer 1956-1957<br>
Fred Elrod 1957-1958, 1963-1987<br><br>
BARITONE <br>
James McCoy 1942-1958<br>
Jimi Hall 1963-1969<br>
JL Steele 1969-1986<br><br>
BASS<br>
BC Robinson 1942-1943<br>
Big Jim Waits 1943-1944, 1949-1952<br>
John Hamrick 1946-1947<br>
Aycel Soward 1947-1949, 1953-54, 1955<br>
Johnny Atkinson 1952-1953<br>
London Parris 1954<br>
George Younce 1955<br>
Rex Nelon 1955-1958<br>
Bill Curtis 1963-1989<br><br>
PIANO <br>
Hovie Lister 1942-1944<br>
Lee Roy Abernathy 1946-1948, 1953-1954<br>
Reece Crockett 1948-1949<br>
Wally Varner 1949-1950, 1951-1953<br>
Doy Ott 1950-1951<br>
Randy Jones 1954-1955<br>
Jack Clark 1955-1956, 1969-1989<br>