Spirit of Memphis Quartet

Founded in 1930, the Spirit of Memphis Quartet tend to be more a continual concept when compared to a arranged strap, changing membership over time as musicians drop in and from the lineup. Actually, it’s not precisely a quartet; within the mid-1980s there have been eight users, five of whom sang. The primary of the group was generally lead Jethro Bledsoe, tenor Robert Reed, and bass vocalist Earl Malone, most of whom became a member of in the 1930s; Bledsoe retired in 1977, but Reed and Malone had been still active using the act in to the 1980s. They documented within the quartet design for Ruler in the first 1950s, then turned to Peacock for a lot of the 1950s and 1960s. They rehearsed the track “If It Ain’t A VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR, It’s Another” with Elvis Presley in Graceland and had been planned to record it with him in 1976, however the program was canceled because of an Elvis disease. The group documented an recording of soul-influenced gospel for David Evans’ indie Large Water label within the mid-1980s.