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Ridge Boys entertained them with some down-home country
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The concert started with Shepherd getting the country
music fans in the mood with hand clapping. After his opening
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The curly-haired singer put on an excellent show, moving
around the stage well. After two more numbers, the lights
went off and when they came back on Shepherd had donned
his white cowboy hat ? much to the crowd's delight.
He went straight to his summer hit 'Loved 'Em Everyone,"
and then went to a crowd-pleasing gospel tune.
Shepherd ended his show with "Party Time" and his
current No. 1 country single, "Only One You." At the end of
the latter song, the lights went off again and firework explosions
on both the left and right of the stage brought the
crowd of country music fans to its feet.
Shepherd came back for an encore and sang a variation of
"Loved 'Em Everyone."
After an intermission, the moment everyone had been
waiting for finally arrived. The Oak Ridge Boys came on
stage to dazzle the partisan crowd.
The quartet ? lead Duane Allen, baritone Bill Golden,
tenor Joe Bonsall and bass Richard Sterban ? opened with
their mid-1970s No. 1 smash "One in a Million," sounding
terribly out of key.
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the swing of things, entertaining the crowd with old songs, as
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After a medley of three of their big hits, "Sail Away,"
"Crying Again" and "Come On In," Bonsall took over as the
leader of the group, cracking jokesThen
the group went on to singing "Dig A Little Deeper (In
The Well)" and "Dream On." The group then sang
"Beautiful You" and "Dream Of Me."
After a number by Bonsall, the Philadelphia native introduced
USC Head Basketball Coach Bill Foster to the
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After a few more jokes by Bonsall, the Boys went back to
musical numbers with "I'm Settin' Fancy Free," the title cut
from their 1981 smash album.
A few more numbers got the crowd in the swing of things
again, with the group continuing their slow love songs and
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The highlight of one number was when Bonsall, the most
hyper-active member of the group helped Golden to his feet
and hopped to the front of the stage. Golden had injured his
ankle on stage during a recent concert in Birmingham, Ala.
After a number by the group's band, The Oak Ridge Boys
sang "Leaving Louisiana in tne Broad uayngnt, a orisKy
song with great harmony.
After a pair of gospel numbers, Bonsall talked about the
group in general.
"We're like everyone else," he said. "We like to see our
selves on television.
"When we go to a restaurant, the first thing we do is check
out the juke box to see if we're on it," he added. "And when
we are, we go ahead and play it."
The group, the official spokesmen for the Boy Scouts of
America, sang their song to the television advertising
campaign for the Boy Scouts, usually seen on early Saturday
mornings on network television.
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