Wow! What a gorgeous performance of my hotbeloved Imperials! When Royce Taylor, Terry Blackwood and Darrell Toney sing this amazing Gospel, it just kicks me out of my socks, because they sound just breathtaking!
"Follow the Man With the Music" was the first album I ever owned from my all-time favorite group, The Imperials. I love every song on that album, and the up-tempo ones are so much fun....but the more I listened to the album, the more this song appealed to me as quite possibly my favorite. It only took the first three notes in this video to give me chills, and the best memories possible of those days. Thank you so much for this!!! ❤
Elvira Verburgt This actually predates the Russ Taff era with the Imperials. This song was with Terry Blackwood and Sherman Andrus (along with Jim Murray, Joe Moscheo and Armond Morales). Taff actually replaced Blackwood in the Imperials in 1976 and was with them until 1981.
Some of the first gospel music I ever hear were the Imperials with Jake Hess, Henry Slaughter, Gary McSpadden, Armond Morales and Sherrill (Shawn) Neilsen.
Saw them tonight 29-1-18 in Ireland with the TCB band amazing singers and Terry Blackwood was with Elvis for his opening in Vegas what stamina these guys have
The Imperials were a great band. Their fame did not get known until the late 70's with Russ Taff. Dave Wills . Armond Morales (who was an original) and Jim Murray.....The original group sang with Elvis ....Jake Hess among them
Two groups became very well known in 1963 with the ending of the Weatherfords association with Rex Humbard. Armond Morales and Henry Slaughter went to the Imperials and Glen Payne and former Weatherford tenor Bobby Clark and pianist Danny Koker started the Cathedrals. Danny's son has the show Counts Customs on tv now.
Interesting to see Jim Murray behind Buddy Mullins at 2:28, since Jim sang tenor when the Imperials originally recorded this song. I wonder if Jim was the one to whom Terry Blackwood gestured in acknowledgement at the end of the video.
that's give me what's called cried but with happenes i love that God gives life this song give me what can i tell it's give me look back to My family that i love Them so much that i'll go back to Them
I don't think Armond is banished. The issue is you have different groups of former members calling themselves "the imperials". Here you have Terry Blackwood and his crew, and elsewhere you have Armond with Paul Smith and David Will performing under the name "The Classic Imperials". I don't know who owns the Imperials trademark but I would think it's Armond or his son....
The way I understand it, the dispute came after Armond Morales “retired” and ceded control over the group and the name to his son Jason in 2003. Armond and Jason had a legal dispute about the group and for a time (2006-2010) Jason’s “The Imperials” and Armond’s “The Classic Imperials” performed independent of each other. Terry Blackwood’s group is apparently an offshoot of the one Jason Morales had. In watching both of them, I find that much of the Blackwood group’s material comes pre-1976 when he and Sherman Andrus left and much of what the Classic’s do are of the Russ Taff era (1976-1981) and beyond.
