Songs We Can't Stop Singing

The 12 songs on this collection need no introduction or description, after all, night after night, from venue to venue, these are the songs the Blue Ridge couldn't stop singing! Whenever the boys would get tired of performing a particular number, they would leave it off the program that night, but at intermission, they would be hounded by fans wanting to know why a certain song wasn't played. And back on the program it would go!

"Songs We Can't Stop Singing includes "Wings Of A Dove", "No Disappointments In Heaven", "You're Not Home Yet", "Dry Bones", "He's Always There", "It Is No Secret", "Battle Hymn Of The Republic", "This Ole House", "Follow Me", "Jubilee's A Coming", "The Light Of Your Love", and "Wonderful Time Up There."  Released in 1967, it is one of 3 albums featuring Otis Forrest at the piano. Kenny Gates had decided to leave the group in 1967, and Otis took his place.

Forrest began playing piano at the age of nine, though his parents told him that he showed interest in music even earlier. "My father and some of his friends knew about five or six chords on a guitar, and they would get together and play," he said. "I would watch, curiously, at an early age."  At the age of 13, Forrest was asked to play piano for a Gospel quartet, the Pilgrimaires, formed in his hometown of Easley, South Carolina. They sang and played at churches locally and in North Carolina and Georgia.  Not long after he, as piano player, and four singers, Tom Brown (baritone), Joel Duncan (bass), Bobby Edwards (tenor), and Carl Whitman (lead), formed a Gospel quartet called The Trav’lers,  

Otis then was asked to join with the Blue Ridge, and worked with them through 1968 when Kenny Gates returned. His name is still known today as a studio musician and record producer.