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Stamps Quartet

Author: CHARLES K. WOLFE

Stamps Quartet Like most of the other publishers of Southern gospel music in the 1920s and 1930s, the Stamps–Baxter company sponsored quartets to travel, record, and broadcast their songs and songbooks. During the late 1920s, there were at least two separate quartets touring and recording for major labels; one was led by V. O. Stamps (the cofounder of the Stamps–Baxter Company) and the other by his brother Frank. As the quartets developed, Frank Stamps gradually emerged as the cornerstone…

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