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Isaac "Dickie" Freeman was an exceptional singer with one of the most beautiful bass voices in both spiritual and secular music. Freeman, who died at the age of 84, has been the anchor of many recordings and performances of The Fairfield Four, a flagship ensemble whose WLAC show was nationally distributed by the CBS radio network. But Freeman has made equally beautiful records with other gospel bands, among them The Golden Tones, The Kings of Harmony and The Skylarks. He left The Fairfield Four in 1950 for The Skylarks, but returned to Nashville in 1962. Freeman experienced a second period of notoriety with the Four when the band found themselves for an Alabama concert in 1980, thanks to the author and scholar gospel Doug Seroff.
In Freeman's last days with The Fairfield Four, they played with rock and country personalities like Elvis Costello, John Fogerty, Lyle Lovett, Amy Grant and Johnny Cash. They gained a new notoriety and a new seal with the contemporary public thanks to an appearance in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and on the soundtrack of the film. They won a Grammy for the spectacular I Could not Hear Nobody Pray album. Freeman's solo film, Beautiful Stars, was acclaimed by everyone in 2002. This is in keeping with Mike Henderson's The Blue Bloods and The McCrary Sisters - sire's father, Sam McCrary, was the tenor of the Fairfield Four and Freeman's predecessor as music director and group leader.
"In the world of popular music, he was part of a handful of bass singers that everyone knew and respected," says music historian, producer and writer Jerry Zolten. "I remember having a conversation with Pookie Hudson [singer of the vocal group The Spaniels, R & B, and he told me that Dickie Freeman was someone they all appreciated." The Oak Ridge singer Boys told me he admired Freeman a lot, I put him there with Jimmy Ricks among the giants of the bass singers. "
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