Probably the best live Southern Gospel album of all time.

@pezesu

3 ай бұрын

I'm very inclined to agree!! This, and "This Is How It Is" -the Downings

How can 56 people give this a thumbs down? The 1980's provided among the best Gospel live concert music recordings. One More Time live from 1981 with John Starnes, Fred Johnson, Janet Paschal and Others and this live LP. These live Southern Gospel LP's became my favourites like the Elvis Presley RCA 1970's As Recorded at MSG and Aloha From Hawaii LP ones were in my pre-saved days.

I love the Cathedrals! Absolutely the best quartet in Southern Gospel.

@lornagoulbourne3219

3 жыл бұрын

Their signing just has a calming effect on me

Am addicted to the Cathedral music. I go to bed at nights with them playing in my ear. Yes I am an addict (cathedral) God bless your ministry see you all in the kingdom soon Robert

@garyboycetxk

2 жыл бұрын

Well you are almost their piano player 😂

Still listening to this in November of 2021 and it still touches my soul and makes me cry. I cannot wait to see George, Glen and Roger in heaven one day and sing with them. If these songs don't light your fire, your wood's wet. The Lord is worthy of all our praise!!

One of my all time favorite Southern Gospel Live Albums. This one and The Hinson’s - Lift The Roof Off top my list.

Song list: 00:35 - You Can Walk On The Water 03:36 - I'm Gonna Live Forever 07:41 - Everywhere I Go 11:22 - The World Is Mine (poem) 13:17 - We Are So Blessed 18:18 - I'm Going Home Someday 20:56 - Moving Up To Gloryland 26:08 - It's So Peaceful 29:53 - Rivers Of Joy 37:09 - We Shall See Jesus 42:54 - Lord I Want To Love You More

My parents bought this cassette when I was around 8 years old, I’m in my mid 40’s now and still love this music.

I had this album and used to sing it constantly! Definitely the BEST gospel group EVER! Rivers of Joy is a song Kirk could blow the roof off with.

Classic Cathedrals. I had this cassette in the mid 80s. One of my favorites. Their version of rivers of joy so powerful. George is singing rivers of joy and many more songs to his King Savior and Lord.

Gave my life to Christ listening to this tape “We Shall See Jesus”! It was 3:00 am, Nov 16, 1984, in my family room, just me and Holy Spirit!

Roger’s opening to “It’s So Peaceful” and Tranmell getting his fingers and voice ready to deliver one of the most downright amazingly beautiful gospel songs to ever have hit an album is literally indescribable. 🤍

Man, that feeling I get when I think about the sound of that sound of an actual record album being transferred over to cassette by my Dad in the early 80’s, the MC announcing the band, I honestly can’t describe it. It’s priceless. These guys “walked on the water” in my eyes and mind as a child and still do to this day. 🤍

today April 2, 2021, in the middle of a pandemic, I'm here listening to these guys, I'm always listening to George, Glen and his boys. Brazilian quartetiers love Cathedral

One of the greatest groups in gospel music.

I just have to get more of The Cathedrals CD's, cassettes, or anything that has their singing!! I can't get enough of this great singing!!!

I love their ministry,it helps me concentrate on the grace of God for sending his Son to forgive me of my sins.

My wife and I love the Cathedrals! I still have several of their albums I need to transfer to digital. We live in MI and when her Grandma from AR was visiting once we took her see them live at a local church. She was in heaven. She talked to them afterwards and discovered that they were familiar with one of her friends in AR.

I also love the Cathedrals. Right along w/the Gaithers (along w/JD and the Happy Goodmans), and the Gaither Vocal Band, and many other "old time Gospel" groups. I cut my spiritual teeth on singers like the Cathedrals in the 70's.

My introduction to The Cathedral Quartet. ❤

As far as I'm concerned, this is the best live album of all time.

@benjamincampbell8443

3 жыл бұрын

It's not even a close competition ! This is the best.

@toddhawk9921

2 жыл бұрын

Truly one of the best ever. But it’s hard to beat Live...Naturally from the Kingsmen.

I, and I mean I, was raised on this album, and I used to sit there and listen to it with the world closed off as if I was the only one alive......

My mom loved the Cathedral Quartet. She is with the Lord now, but listening to their music reminds me that she and I are both worshipping God.

I have followed the Cathedrals from the early 1970's. They've always been my favorite Christian quartet, Southern Gospel or whatever. I had a lot of their old albums on vinyland still wish I had them. I'm so glad their music still lives on CD's, on KZread and inmy heart.

@karens.denson7902

7 жыл бұрын

Arizona Paul I STILL love Southern Gospel! & ALL the MANY groups that have been formed & STILL GOIN!

@CampCherith1

4 жыл бұрын

I am blessed to have every song they recorded now on mp3 - it goes with me everywhere I go

Praise God! Please pray for me, Nathan, in Jesus Name Amen.

I vividly remember many many many times wearing my dads album out and I vividly remember him converting it over onto cassette for the car and I wore it out too in my tape player. 😀

Great group. Brings back so many great memories. Makes me miss my gramps who always had Cathedral cassettes and 8 tracks everywhere.

When Trammel sings Its So Peaceful the tears start flowing

I haven’t found this record yet this is my Favourite Group of the Cathedral’s and all the Songs are my Favourite Songs my Favourite Tenor Kirt and such a talented songwriter and Mark has been my Favourite since being with the Cathedrals and than totally my Favourite with Gold City and Roger Bennett was my Favourite Piano player than he was my Favourite with Legacy Five and George was always my Favourite BASS so talented and so funny and so many gorgeous Cowboy boots lol 😂 and Glen one incredible voice and he could be funny too miss them all. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

love the cathedrals very uplifting music

I vividly remember this record as a kid

This is the first gospel album I can remember listening to as a little kid. The Cathedrals was the first concert I ever attended and I was 5 years old. This was the lineup that night. This was also the lineup that really set them up as the dominant group for nearly two decades. I personally liked Danny Funderburk more than Kirk Talley, but Kirk wrote the first #1 song The Cathedrals ever had, "Step Into the Water." For those of us too young to remember the way The Statesmen and Blackwood Brothers dominated the 50s and 60s, this was the gold standard of the 80s and 90s. Glen and George were the best.

@ronaldshank7589

5 жыл бұрын

The Statesmen and the Blackwood Brothers Quartets, along with the Imperial Quartet (before they went Contemporary!), were what I grew up on. Other groups, such as The Kingsmen Quartet, The Inspirations, and many others, have been what I've listened to for a long time, and I still do to this day! These songs serve as one of the ultimate encouragements to serve the LORD. The ultimate influence, though, is the Holy Bible, of course! I'm glad that we're going to a city oft sung of, and worth going to! When we get to that City, where the LAMB is the Light, it'll be worth it all!!!

@williambrewer6199

4 жыл бұрын

I agree Danny was better than Kurt. I liked Ernie too

@AdamPaul2222

2 жыл бұрын

Who ruled the 70s in Southern Gospel music?

@michaelholman517minKC

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamPaul2222 That’s kind of tough to say, because this was also win contemporary Christian music started coming into Vogue. The Bill Gaither Trio, Dallas Holm, Don Francisco, and The Imperials were big in the 1970s. But getting back to strictly Southern Gospel music, you had the Speer Family as they started finding their identity after Mom and Dad Speer passed away. You still had the Blackwood Brothers as James took a step back, and Cecil became the spokesman of the group. JD Sumner and the Stamps had quite a bit of notoriety, especially because they were one of the main back up groups for Elvis Presley. And we also cannot forget the Happy Goodman Family who really took off in the late 60s and all throughout the 70s. The Kingsmen and the Florida Boys did some good things in the 70s. And when Rex Nelon bought the LeFevres group upon Eva Mae’s retirement, he had a great young group headlined by Janet Paschal that had some good hits right at the end of the 70s and into the early 80s. I think the 70s can truly be described as a transition decade in SGM with no single dominant group.

@AdamPaul2222

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelholman517minKC wow your right… I think I had a brain fog … how could I forget all them big names? Lol

It was by this album I was introduced to the Cathedrals. Been hooked ever since. Miss them very much.

@ronaldshank7589

5 жыл бұрын

I think that this was my first exposure to the Cathedral Quartet, too! That was back about 1982 or so. I've loved their music ever since! God bless you!

@williambrewer6199

4 жыл бұрын

They were the best ever

@ericsills6484

4 жыл бұрын

I got two CDs when I first got a CD player. This was one of them.

@joelseay5609

3 жыл бұрын

This was my intro to them as well. They were the best!!

My favorite at 21:00 "Moving Up To Glory Land" ! I used to stand up and hold onto my playpen as a little one and dance to it! I feel happy and nostalgic every time I hear it!

I always loved the statesman quartet saw them many time when I was a kid but the Cathedrals have become my favorite

Definitely their best album!

My first album was one I found at a yard sale. It was J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Live at Murray State, Kentucky. That was in 1984, still have it today. Love it. Today is the first time I've heard this album by the Cathedrals!

Amazing.

this was always my favorite album! I love George's jokes, "I'm going somewhere and lay down I work for 7-up!" Too funny.

This group of The Cats will always be my favorite. Kirk Talley on Tenor (sometimes playing the Bass), Mark Trammell on Baritone (but really song Lead on many songs and played the Bass Guitar more than Kirk), Glenn Payne as Lead Singer (the best), and George Younce on Bass (the best in the business.) Loved it when his son-in-law Robbie Willis would play drums anytime they were in Atlanta. Robbie was married to George's daughter Dana. A precious friend who passed away far too soon. Robbie played for The Nelons the longest. I guess I was 4 when I first heard them and fell in love with Kirk right away. They weren't just great singers. I would say they were great actors as well but that doesn't feel right to say. George would say the same thing and tell the same jokes every night as if it was the first time he'd ever said them and the rest of the guys would act like they'd never heard him say that before either. Deep down you knew it wasn't fake. Not for George and Glenn. They could hold the audience in the palm of their hand. A gift that was passed on to Kirk when he left to sing with Roger & Debra. They were spiritual and entertaining at the same time. They made you forget about the problems at work, school or home for just a little while. A glimpse of Heaven. We need more people like them today. Others try but fail. The only folks I know that come close are the scrabble Family and the Bowlings. You just have to be real. The audience can tell. Be saved, realize it's not about you, and be your true self. I'll always love these guys, Kirk's writing, and Lari's arrangements. It was magic.

@clarissadyson8489

7 жыл бұрын

Alicia Michelle the Gaither Vocal Band and the crabb family do a good job of it. And Ernie Haase and signature sound

@karens.denson7902

7 жыл бұрын

Alicia Michelle what a time we're gonna have in heaven, RIGHT?!!

Real Music.. !!!!

haven't heard this album in years definitely one of my favorites

"Lord, I want to love you more than I ever have before. You're so easy to adore." No, He is not "easy" to adore. The Lord God Almighty is everything that the world and our selfishness is NOT. And, self does not die easy. If God seems easy, take another look at His Holiness. His Love demands everything we are, and the dying of self. These guys were a great quartet because Glen and George were faithful to God in their lives. They lived what they sang.

@davemills971

8 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, to an extent. If you love the God of Abraham,, he IS so easy to adore. He reveals enough of himself to make that possible. Of course his ways and thoughts are much higher than ours, but the taste he gives me I adore him.

@estevenvigil5809

8 жыл бұрын

by FB gc

Glen with “We Shall See Jesus”, bottom line, he sure did show out and deliver his best that he could that night. Unbelievable.

The Cathedrals Quartet - Live In Atlanta in 1983 Origin: Akron (Stow), Ohio, United States Danny Funderburk (1954 - Present) - tenor Glen Payne (1926-1999) - lead Mark Trammell (1959- Present) - baritone, bass guitar George Younce (1930-2005) - bass Roger Bennett (1959-2007) - piano, vocals Tracklist: You Can Walk On The Water I'm Gonna Live Forever Everywhere I Go We Are So Blessed I'm Going Home Someday Movin' Up To Gloryland It's So Peaceful Rivers Of Joy We Shall See Jesus Lord, I Want To Love You More

@southerngospelfan1259

2 жыл бұрын

Not Danny Funderburk singing tenor on this one

@daryltracy7949

2 жыл бұрын

It's Kirk Talley singing tenor on here

One of the first gospel quartet albums I owned as a kid. Don't know witch one i played the most this Cathedral album or Chattanooga Live by The Kingsmen.

@thecathedralquartetfans3795

9 жыл бұрын

Those are 2 great albums!

@scottdoyle3982

6 жыл бұрын

Lee Mitchell I had the same 2 albums I'd listen to the one then the other back to back!!!

@ronaldshank7589

5 жыл бұрын

Chattanooga Live, by the Kingsmen Quartet, was recorded in 1977, & remains one of the top concerts by "The Ton of Fun" that's ever been recorded! I used to have a copy of it, but even though I don't have that anymore, I'm glad that somebody took the time to put it right here on KZread! The introduction of Ernie Phillips on that album is absolutely priceless, and so funny! The song list on that album is tops, too! Whether it's Brother Squire Parsons doing the song "The Lovely name of Jesus, or whether it's all the guys around the microphones, doing the song "The Old Ship of Zion", this album is loaded with classic material, from start to finish!

@williambrewer6199

4 жыл бұрын

I love the Kingsman too, but they can't hold a candle to the Cathedrals.

Amo esse quarteto!

remember the cathedrals were often criticized for being too showey or too much comedy, George's endings were too sloppy and on and on but the test of time has proven them both professionally and spiritually as true greats Christians can be so foolish as to think we can judge the heart of men and the plan of God remember that when you don't like the way Signature Sound dances or the Talleys add a contemporary feel your style preference is not God's will oh man

Don’t think the cathedrals can be topped

lindo ...JESUS há si na minha igreja foce assim .

Who are the young boys singing with George and Glen?

The folks who've downvoted this are the ones that George spoke about: like they've been slapped in the face with a dead rabbit or like a mule looking at a new gate!

First for me I loveit

When was this made?

@thecathedralquartetfans3795

6 жыл бұрын

1983

Yes, I am just as anxious as anyone to escape this world and go home to paradise; but what about our lost love ones. Jesus is coming soon. This scares me; for there are so many deceived. There are so many lost, who don't even know that they are lost. There are so many going to destruction; so many on their way to hell unless they repent and accept Jesus as their Lord and savior; but they don't even know that they sin, that they fall short of God's glory. (see John 3:16) They don't even know that they need the savior. They are so deceived. There is so much to do. So Lord would you tarry longer? so we can go to war against Satan, the great deceiver. We have so much to do. So Lord, let us get busy trying to get the truth to the deceived, to the lost, to the perishing. So Lord would you tarry longer Because You are long-suffering toward us and would that none should perish? (see II Peter 3:9) So let us not tarry; Let us get busy helping the Lord rescue the perishing. So Lord, as we tarry not; would you tarry longer?

What year was this recorded?

@baptist1644

7 жыл бұрын

1985

@thecathedralquartetfans3795

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, it was recorded in 1983. Kirk Talley (the tenor in this recording) left in late 1983.

@mcwalter1990

4 жыл бұрын

@@ronshawver6880 It's not appropriate to bash him for something he struggles with.

@ronshawver6880

4 жыл бұрын

@@mcwalter1990 Pffft...just calling it what it is, but it's deleted now.

This isn't live. What a let down.

@thwg34

5 жыл бұрын

Doc Hatfield umm, yes it is, did you even listen past the first song?

this was always my favorite album! I love George's jokes, "I'm going somewhere and lay down I work for 7-up!" Too funny.