The Oak Ridge Boys - Personnel

Personnel

• Curly Kinsey – Bass 1945–1947
• Lon "Deacon" Freeman – Baritone / guitar 1945–1949
• Wally Fowler – Lead 1945–1952
• Little Johnny New – Tenor 1945-1949; 1952
• Monroe (Curley) Blaylock – Bass 1947–1949
• Boyce Hawkins – Piano 1949
• Bob Weber – Bass 1949–1956
• Pat Patterson – Baritone 1949–1952 / Lead 1952–1953
• Joe Allred – Tenor 1949–1954 (left briefly in 1952)
• Bobby Whitfield – Piano 1950–1952; 1954–1956
• Bob Prather – Baritone 1952
• Glen Allred – Guitar / Vocals 1951–1952
• Carlos Cook – Lead] 1952–1953 / Baritone 1953–1954
• Calvin Newton – Lead 1953–1956
• Cat Freeman – Tenor 1954–1956
• Les Roberson – Baritone 1955–56
• Ron Page – Bass 19561

At this point the Oak Ridge Quartet disbanded. Was started up again by Fowler.

• Bill Smith – Bass 1957
• Ronnie Page – Baritone 1957–1962
• Smitty Gatlin – Lead 1957–1958; 1959–1966 / Tenor 1958–1959
• Hobert Evans – Tenor 1957–1958
• Wallace "Happy" Edwards – Tenor fill-In 1958
• Bobby Clark – Tenor 1958
• Powell Hassell – Piano 1957–1958
• Herman Harper – Bass 1957–1969
• Tommy Fairchild – Lead 1958–1959 / Piano 1959–1960; 1961–1972
• Little Willie Wynn – Tenor 1959–1973
• Gary Trusler – Piano 1960
• James Goss – Piano 1960
• Gary McSpadden – Baritone 1962–1963
• Big Jim Hamill – Baritone 1963–1964
• William Lee Golden – Baritone 1964–1987; 1995–present
• Duane Allen – Lead 1966–present
• Noel Fox – Bass 1969–1972
• Mark Ellerbee – Drums 197?–1975
• Marty Twinkles Glisson – Piano 1976
• Don Breland – Bass guitar 197?–1975
• Skip Mitchell – Guitar 1976–1986
• John Rich – Guitar and steel 1972–1975
• Tony Brown – Piano and keyboards 1972–1975
• Richard Sterban – Bass 1972–present
• Garland Craft – Piano 1975–1981
• Joe Bonsall – Tenor 1973–present
• Steve Sanders – Baritone 1987–1995
• Dee Allen – Baritone fill-in, late 1995
• Paul Martin – Baritone fill-in, late 1995
• Ron Fairchild – Keyboard 1980–2001, 2002–2009, fill-in 2009–2012
• Chris Golden – Acoustic guitar/mandolin 1995 drummer 1996–present
• Don Carr – Lead guitar 1991–present
• Jimmy Fulbright – Keyboard 2001, bass guitar 2003–present
• Rex Wiseman – Various instruments 2006–present
• Jeff Douglas – Guitar and dobro 1995–present
• Chris Nole – Keyboard 2009–2012

^1 Hired to be baritone in a group started by Wally Fowler called the Country Boys. The group was not ready to go and Ron auditioned and won a job as a bass fill-in for the Oak Ridge Quartet. This was initially to be for two months. The plan was to have Armond Morales take the slot when he got out of the Army, but the group went bust prior to this time and disbanded. Fowler decided to take the Oak Ridge Quartet name back and called the "Country Boys" the Oak Ridge Quartet Ron then took the baritone position he had won.