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 | | They won the competition with their stirring rendition of "The Man Upstairs." Two weeks after the Arthur Godfrey appearance, two of the Blackwood Brothers, R. Blackwood and Bill Lyles, were both killed in a plane crash in Clanton, Alabama. |
 | | In 1956, James Blackwood, Cecil Blackwood and J. Sumner organized the first National Quartet Convention which still exists today and is held in Louisville, KY. The Blackwood Brothers introduced the first customized tour bus. |
 | | Backstage, Elvis joined James Blackwood, Hovie Lister and J. Sumner for an impromtu rendition of "How Great Thou Art." When his mother, Gladys Presley, died in 1958, Elvis and Vernon asked the Blackwood Brothers to sing for her funeral. |
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