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Joe Bonsall, Mainstay of Country Music’s Oak Ridge Boys for 50 Years, Dies at 76


Joe Bonsall, a member of country music's preeminent vocal group, the Oak Ridge Boys, since 1973, has died at age 76.

Joe Bonsall, one of the faces of the leading country music vocal group the Oak Ridge Boys since 1973, died Tuesday at 76. The origins of the Oak Ridge Boys go back to the 1940s, and the group took on that name in the mid-1960s, but the combo was primarily known as a gospel act before Bonsall joined in 1973. 1 songs during that early period of success included “Trying to Love Two Woman,” “I’ll Be True to You,” “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight” and “(I’m Settin’) Fancy Free.”

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