Glen Payne

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Not to be confused with the Australian footballer, Glenn Payne.
Glen Payne
Southern gospel
Occupation(s)Singer, music publisher
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active1939–1999

Glen Weldon Payne (October 20, 1926 – October 15, 1999)

The Cathedral Quartet
.

Early years

Payne was a child of the Great Depression. His parents were cotton farmers in Texas.[2]

At age 17 in 1944, he joined the

The Weatherford Quartet, which featured Glen, Earl and Lily Fern Weatherford, Armond Morales, and George Younce. Younce was later replaced by Henry Slaughter
.

Career

In 1963, Weatherfords members Glen,

Southern Gospel Charts including Step into The Water, Boundless Love, and He Made a Change. While the quartet saw several different people hold the tenor, baritone and pianist positions, Payne and Younce remained the guiding forces of the quartet until Glen's death in 1999 during the Cathedral's farewell retirement tour. Payne and Younce were the only lead and bass singers the Cathedrals ever had.[3]

During the 1970s, the Cathedrals were regulars on Sunday Morning Television appearing on "

Today" show. During the 1990s, the Cathedrals were regulars on the "Gaither Homecoming
" videos and were generally recognized as the top quartet in Southern Gospel music.

Glen was the willing "target" of many of MC George's jokes and icebreakers during the quartet's run. George often referred to Glen as "The Old Man". Glen's signature song was We Shall See Jesus.

Glen sat as a member of the

Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame for many years, being enshrined in the SGMA Hall of Fame at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee itself in 1998.[4]

Death

Glen died due to complications from cancer on October 15, 1999, aged 72 during the Cathedral's farewell tour, just five days before his 73rd birthday. Although unable to attend that year, Glen made his final performance at the National Quartet Convention via telephone hook-up from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt Hospital. During this Cathedral's appearance at NQC, Glen talked with George and the audience over the phone and, at George's behest, sang the old hymn I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone in one of the most memorable NQC performances of all time. It was the final time Glen would perform publicly with the Cathedrals. Payne was married and had three children and three grandchildren. He is buried in Williamson Memorial Gardens in Franklin, Tennessee.

On April 4, 2019, Glen's wife Van died aged 81.

References

  1. ^ http://www.sghistory.com/index.php?n=G.Glen_Payne Southern Gospel History: Glen Payne
  2. ^ Roy Ledgerwood. "PAYNE, GLEN WELDON".
  3. ^ "Billboard". 1996-03-30.
  4. ISBN 9780310235200
    .

External links

Bibliography

  • “Glen Payne, Inducted 1993,” Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame (http://www.tgmhf.org/hall/hall.php?page=payneg), accessed October 28, 2010.
  • James R. Goff, Jr., Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
  • Jim Goff and Danny Jones, “Southern Gospel Music Mourns the Loss of Another Pioneer: GLEN PAYNE 1926–1999”.
  • Singing News (December, 1999) (http://www.singingnews.com/ Southern-Gospel-News/11609840/), accessed October 25, 2010.
  • Michael P. Graves and David Fillingim, eds., More Than “Precious Memories”: The Rhetoric of Southern Gospel Music (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2004).
  • Glen Payne and George Younce, with Ace Collins, The Cathedrals (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998).
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