The Happy Goodmans: The Ultimate Collection CD {#Review}

**Full Disclosure: I received The Happy Goodmans: The Ultimate Collection for review purposes.  All opinions are my own.

I enjoy listening to music but I really only have it on when I’m in my car.  I have a few select favorite CDs – most of which are VBS songs.  A few weeks ago, I said yes to reviewing The Happy Goodmans: The Ultimate Collection.

About The Happy Goodmans: The Ultimate Collection: 

For nearly four decades, The Happy Goodmans brightened the world with their Gospel songs. They were founded in Alabama in the 1940s by Howard and Gussie Goodman. Over the years, they expanded and changed membership until finally becoming a quartet composed of Ruth, Sam, Rusty and Bob Goodman. They were later joined by Vestal Goodman and the only non-Goodman, tenor Johnny Cook. The Happy Goodmans’ popularity grew so much that a category had to be created in the Grammy Awards for Gospel Music. In 1968, The Happy Goodmans won the first Grammy for a Gospel album by a Gospel group – no other artist or group had garnered this achievement. The Happy Goodmans also won the same award ten years later, in 1978. In 1969 with the founding of the Gospel Music Association and the Dove Awards, the Happy Goodmans were honored with multiple awards, in addition to Vestal being named the first Female Vocalist of the Year for the 1969. The group recorded 15 number-one singles and played over 3,500 shows. They were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1998. 

I received the CD a day before I was driving to Dallas. I was excited that I had some new music to listen to so I popped the disc into the CD player before I pulled out of my driveway.  The Happy Goodmans isn’t what I was expecting – the music is slower than I’d anticipated – but it was still good.

There are 15 songs in the collection.  They are:

• Better Hurry Up
• What a Beautiful Day
• Had It Not Been
• John the Revelator
• God Walks the Dark Hills
• The Lighthouse
• Looking for a City
• The Greatest Love Story
• Who am I
• The Eastern Gate
• There’s Nothing My God Can’t Do
• Remind Me Dear Lord
• I Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
• What a Lovely Name
• I Bowed on My Knees and Cried Holy

You can pick it up for about $10 at Family Christian.

Do you listen to The Happy Goodmans?