Singing Johnson Family

Indianapolis IN

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Hi, everybody. I'm looking for any information about "The Singing Johnson Family," who'd perform at churches about 50+ years ago. Here's everything I know: Years ago I found in a vintage store in Chicago a record album recorded by The Singing Johnson Family, and I've been looking for information about this for *years*. According to the liner notes, the family is from Southport. They are parents Harry and Betty, and their kids Sharon, Karen, and Harry "Bud" Jr. There is a sixth child but he's not included in the cover picture or named in the liner notes. The album cost me $6, and it was such an oddity that I bought it. It's the family singing in *very* close multi-part pseudo-barbershop harmony, a capella. All the songs are hymns. The album was recorded at Studio Sound in Kokomo, engineered by Brandt Jackson. The record label is Motif. (It's NOT the same Motif label out of Hollywood.) No amount of Googling gave me much information except that I actually did a trial subscription to newspapers-dot-com. Saw a couple of ads in the religion section of a newspaper or two advertising The Singing Johnson Family performing at various churches in and around southern Indianapolis. The dates were circa 1966-1967, and the pictures in the ads were either the same picture that's on the album cover, or a picture that I found *inside* the album (with the sixth, unnamed, Johnson). Of course, because the surname is Johnson and all the first names are pretty common, trying to look them up by name is a nightmare. (You know how many Harry Johnsons there've been in Indiana alone with the nickname "Bud"?!) And I've also found that there was *another* "Singing Johnson Family" singing religious songs in the '70s in another state; totally different family! Sooooooooo....does anybody know anything about these folks? I genuinely want to know more. Are any of them still singing, and still in Indiana??