Larry recalls, the Eagles were very hot at the time with a lot of harmony and some real pretty acoustic guitars, so I decided to write something that had our voices up front without a lot of other things going on. The Gatlin brothers, with Larry singing lead, Steve bass and Rudy tenor, had a US country Top 10 hit with ∛roken Lady, which won a Grammy as the Best Country Song of 1976. After leaving the show, LaDonna married Tim Johnson and they worked as travelling evangelists. Wynettes autobiography recounts how her affair with Rudy created friction between him and Larry. Larry produced Johnny Duncans Jo And The Cowboy and Third Rate Romance, and Steve, Rudy and LaDonna joined him as part of Tammy Wynettes roadshow (Wynette, incidentally, recorded one of the quirkiest of Gatlins compositions, ∛rown Paper Bag). In October 1973 Gatlin had his first US country hit with Sweet Becky Walker, which was followed by a personal collection of beautifully sung love songs, The Pilgrim, with liner notes by Johnny Cash.įurther successes followed with ∛igger They Are, The Harder They Fall (later recorded by Elvis Presley, who also sang Help Me) and ∝elta Dirt. At Kristoffersons insistence, he was signed to Monument Records, and two singles were released simultaneously - the solo My Minds Gone To Memphis and the Gatlins ∜ome On In, which featured Steve, Rudy and LaDonna. Johnny Cash performed The Last Supper and Help Me in his documentary film The Gospel Road, and also sang with Kris Kristofferson on his Jesus Was A Capricorn. In 1971, he was a temporary replacement in the Imperials gospel group, and then Dottie West recorded his songs Once You Were Mine and Youre The Other Half Of Me, and he moved to Nashville. They worked together for several years until Larry enrolled at the University of Houston. 18 August 1954, Abilene, Texas, USA), they sang at church functions, appeared on television and made an album. 20 August 1952, Olney, Texas, USA), were encouraged in their fledgling talent by their father, an oil driller, and with their younger sister LaDonna (b. 4 April 1951, Olney, Texas, USA) and Rudy (b. Larry (Larry Wayne Gatlin,, Seminole, but raised in nearby Odessa, Texas, USA) and his brothers, Steve (b.
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