Talk:The Oak Ridge Boys
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[edit] Cleanup
I've removed links to articles that don't exist, as well as false links such as a link to "Christmas" in the discography, which gives the impression that the link is to a page about the album, not the holiday.
Second, I'm going to remove all the mentions and unimportant comments about the albums and singles. For instance:
- A holiday album simply titled Christmas was released on September 23, 1982. Followed by American Made on January 20, 1983. The title tune of which was yet another "crossover" hit making both the country and pop charts.
The two first lines sentences are already covered in the discography. While it's important to point out cross-genre appeal, the comment by itself is insignificant. Collectively they can help somebody write a nice history/overview, so I will list the facts someplace else, but right now they are just pointless. Being bold here, so if I'm wrong just revert! :) —Foofy 10:15, 30 October 2005 (UTC) --- This cannot be substantiated without a lot of work, but it may be relevant. I went to church with several employees of the Oaks in Hendersonville, TN. Within a month after William Lee re-joined the group, their booking for the next 12 months more than doubled. They sold their old buses and purchased three new touring coaches soon after he re-joined. The Nashville office of Billboard keeps track of bookings, so someone would have to go through them to verify the booking increase. The reunion of the original four has helped their income, no doubt.
The legal battles of Steve Sanders (while with the Oaks) would fill a book, but are not relevant for this article. The Gallatin Star News has a large file on the problems Steve had with both wives. Though they printed many news stories of the issues, fist fights in Kroger, and shopping in leopard print jammies, the Nashville papers never mentioned them.
