Award winners

• Song Of The Year
  • "Jesus is Coming Soon"; R. E. Winsett
    R. E. Winsett
    -Early years:Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899.-Musical career:He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal...
    
    ; R. E. Winsett Music (SESAC)

• Songwriter Of The Year
  • Bill Gaither

• Male Vocalist Of The Year
  • James Blackwood
    James Blackwood
    James Webre Blackwood was an American Gospel singer and one of the founding members of legendary Southern Gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers.-Biography:...
    
    

• Female Vocalist Of The Year
  • Vestal Goodman
    Vestal Goodman
    Vestal Goodman was a singer who performed in the Southern Gospel genre for more than half a century. She is known both as a solo performer and as a founding member of official The Happy Goodman Family, the first was actually her husband and his brothers and sisters, one of the pioneering groups in...
    
    

• Male Group Of The Year
  • The Imperials
    The Imperials
    The Imperials are an American Christian music group that has been around for over 45 years. Originating as a southern gospel quartet, the innovative group would become pioneers of contemporary Christian music in the 1960s. There have been many changes for the band in membership and musical styles...
    
    

• Mixed Group Of The Year
  • The Speer Family

• Album Of The Year
  • IT'S HAPPENING; Oak Ridge Boys; Bob MacKenzie; HeartWarming

• Instrumentalist
  • Dwayne Friend

• Album Jacket
  • IT'S HAPPENING; Oak Ridge Boys; HeartWarming

• Television Program
  • GOSPEL JUBILEE, Florida Boys

• D.J. Of The Year
  • J.G. Whitfield

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