The Happy Goodman Family was a Southern Gospel group that was founded in the 1940s by Howard "Happy" Goodman and performed together for several decades. The Happy Goodmans achieved significant popularity in the 1960s. In 1968 they won the first Grammy awarded for a Gospel album by a Gospel group.
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