Thanks OD, I feel the same way. All you say is right on. The only thing not quite right is that my Dad was never a regular member of the Oak Ridge Boys. He just filled in with them for a few times over a couple of months, way back in their Gospel days. The Oaks have been around for about 75 years.
He was always a temporary fill in. The "Pete Best of the Oak Ridge Boys" is really just a private joke between me and Rusty Golden, the son of the Oak's William Lee Golden. He was never really seriously considered for that or that dissapointed in not being in their success. He would have been long gone before the country years came in any way, being much older than any of those guys. It was about 20 years after he quit music that their country days came in. He was a big fan of theirs over the years.
But it is a pretty funny aspect of music.
Everything else is pretty right. Thanks for noticing.
MAB