Named for and featured on the long-running country music television show that created them, the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet was a 1970s–1980s throwback to the Brown’s Ferry Four of thirty years before, with one man, Country Music Hall of Fame member Grandpa Jones, a regular member of both.
Published reminiscences by Jones and by the show’s producer, Sam Lovullo , agree on the main details of how the group came to be. Early in Hee Haw’s CBS-TV...