Rangers Quartet - Hide Me Rock of Ages

Personnel:
Arnold Hyles, Vernon Hyles, Glenn Sessions, Gene Moss, Elmer Childress at the piano

From the Television Show "Town Hall Party" (starring Tex Ritter), recorded in November 1954. So far, this is the only known footage of the Rangers Quartet in existence.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Rangers
• Quartet
• southern
• gospel
• Town
• Hall
• Party
• religious

[Nike5265]

What year did Dinver Croumpler exit the Rangers?

[akdal83]

Denver left the Rangers to join the Statesmen in 1953 I believe.

[queensef]

That's my Dad, Elmer Childress, on the piano!

[gospelmusiclover48]

What a legendary group!

[kerrycato911]

Hide Me, Rock Of Ages was written by Brantley C George around 1947. He was basically tricked into selling the rights to it by representatives of the Stamps Quartet for the paltry sum of $25. He wrote it in pencil on a brown paper bag while sitting under an oak tree in his front yard on his farm in SW Georgia. I am very proud that he is/was my GG Grandfather. - Dorothy George Taylor

[sweatbj1]

Love this group. Haven't heard them before now!



[MrLonesomeJohn]

Wasn't Gene Moss an actor also?

[BradyTheBaptist]

Wish we had good music like this and could sing it in the town hall!

[mossh2]

This is the first time I've seen Gene Moss with video. He's better in person! GeneMoss, Jr.

[vuky14]

Thanks so much for this wonderful clip. This is post wreck. My dad was their pharmacist in Shreveport, La. He often rode with them to their shows and was supposed to be with the Rangers riding shotgun in the first car on the night of the fatal wreck near Waskom, Tx in 1951. He didn't go as I was sick that night. I grew up with The Rangers in person and on their 78s. God bless them all as they were the best !

[GospelPhil]

I think the video was done in 1967, Sing a Song For Heaven's Sake....13 years later!

[GospelPhil]

That was the trio version of the group....most of the guys had died or had quit singing by that time!

[insman76]

You always come up with the most interesting stuff. These guys are good. I heard them on the video from that movie "Sing A Song For Heaven's Sake", but that was only as a trio.