{"id":39952,"date":"2024-07-10T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=39952"},"modified":"2024-07-10T05:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:38:40","slug":"joe-bonsall-of-the-oak-ridge-boys-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/joe-bonsall-of-the-oak-ridge-boys-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Bonsall Of The Oak Ridge Boys Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Bonsall, who was a long-time member of The Oak Ridge Boys, passed away yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He was 76 years old and battled for four years with the neuromuscular disease ALS.<\/p>\n<p>Joe joined the group in 1973 and his high harmonies really soared on hits like, &#8220;Elvira&#8221; and &#8220;Bobby Sue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Oak Ridge Boys went on to win five Grammys and were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Joe was a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9NRoCiNQbK\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Joe&#8217;s passing comes only eight days after the death of Rusty Golden, who&#8217;s the son of The Oak Ridge Boys&#8217; William Lee Golden.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from touring just six months ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdEz3QkHrVg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Bonsall, who was a long-time member of The Oak Ridge Boys, passed away yesterday.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":39953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3830,5176,2185],"class_list":["post-39952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-als","tag-joe-bonsall","tag-the-oak-ridge-boys"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 07:24:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/joe-bonsall-of-the-oak-ridge-boys-has-died\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39957,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions\/39957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}