The Paramount Singers

Although eclipsed in popularity by contemporaries including the Soul Stirrers and the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Paramount Singers were among the longest-lived gospel groups of the modern era, upholding the tradition of classic a cappella harmonizing for well over half-a-century. Assembled in Austin, TX in 1936, the Paramounts initially consisted of two pairs of brothers, Geno and Kermit Terrell and Ermant and A.C. Franklin, in addition to Herbert Sneed and Ben Williams. Sneed had been replaced by James Medlock -- later of the Soul Stirrers -- by the time they recorded for the Li...