Gene ‘Buddy’ Campbell grew up singing with his family who are also inductees of the TGMHF, The Campbell Family.  It was not unusual for Gospel singing families to produce a standout vocalist who would have his own career as a “quartet man” – Buddy was that man!  He went on to sing with The Jubilee Quartet, The Inspirationals Quartet, one of the many Stamps Quartets and The Men of Music.

Merle Conn Longnecker [1927-2017] was the first woman to be inducted in the TGMHF.  She grew up singing with her family in East Texas and eventually gained notoriety along with her two sisters and three brothers.  When she was 19, Albert E. Brumley, writer of I’ll Fly Away, asked her to introduce his newest song, If We Never Meet Again, later made famous by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.  Through out her life she sang on Gospel concert stages, in churches, on radio and on television all over the United States with the Conn Family, The Sunnysiders and Merle & The Gospel Four.

When the TGMHF began inducting music groups in 2005 (mostly quartets), near the top of the list of Texas favorites was the Rangers Quartet. Formed by two brothers from Italy Texas, Arnold and Vernon Hyles started the quartet after attending the Stamps-Baxter School of Music in Dallas. In 1936 The Rangers worked as Good Will Ambassadors for the Texas Centennial Celebration at the State Fair. For this work the Governor, James Allred, commissioned them as Honorary Texas Rangers (the name stuck). Also in the group were Walter Leveritt, Denver Crumpler and pianist David Reece. They were one of the first professional music groups in Gospel Music traveling all across the country and making live radio appearances from Georgia to Kansas to Texas.

Larry Scott was inducted in 2007. His career as a radio personality goes back to the early 1950s. Larry has as many fans and friends in Country Music and Texas Western Swing as he does in Gospel Music. He was a favorite Emcee at a variety of awards shows and concerts along the way. He was the weekly Emcee for the Johnnie High Country Music Revue for most of the 1980s. He hosted a number of radio programs through the years, but for a long time before his passing in 2015, he produced a show called “Singin’ and Swingin” that was heard in numerous radio markets across the Southwest. His wife Gail still preserves the work and legacy of Larry though an impressive collection of photographs and memorabilia.