Sensational Nightingales

Sensational Nightingales

Infobox Musical artist
Name = The Sensational Nightingales


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Alias = The Nightingales
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Genre = Christian
Years_active = 1942 - present
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Current_members = Joseph 'JoJo' Wallace
Larry Moore
Horace "Sug" Thompson
Darrell Luster
Past_members = Julius "June" Cheeks
Charles Johnson
Barney Parks
Ernest James
Carl Coates
Calvert McNair
Howard Carroll
Paul Owens
Willie Woodruff

The Sensational Nightingales is a Gospel music quartet that reached its peak of popularity in the 1950s, when it featured Julius Cheeks as its lead singer. The Nightingales, with several changes of membership, continue to tour and record today.

Musical career

The group was founded in 1942 by Barney Parks, who had formerly sung with the Dixie Hummingbirds. Julius "June" Cheeks joined the group in 1946. Cheeks left and returned to the group several times during its heyday, then left in 1960 to form his own group, "the Sensational Knights".

The group presently consists of Joseph 'JoJo' Wallace, Larry Moore, Horace "Sug" Thompson, and guitarist Darrell Luster.

Further reading

*Boyer, Horace Clarence,"How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel" Elliott and Clark, 1995, ISBN 0-252-06877-7.
*Heilbut, Tony, "The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times" Limelight Editions, 1997, ISBN 0-87910-034-6.

External links

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* [http://music.yahoo.com/ar-263952---The-Sensational-Nightingales The Sensational Nightingales at Yahoo! Music]

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