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I was blessed to be born into The First Family of Gospel Music, The Speer Family. I’m the grandson of Dad and Mom Speer and the son of Brock and Faye Speer. Below is a pictorial history of my musical family. Click on a thumbnail for more detail.

Original Speer Family, 1921
Speer Family, 1924
Early Advertisment
Speer Family, 1932
Speer Family, 1934
Speer Family, 1939
Speer Family with Brock in the Army
Early Promotional Photo
Brock in the the Army Air Corps
Brock and Brian, 1963
Rosa Nell and Brock
Early Sheet Music Cover
Listening to a recording playback
A Wally Fowler All Night Singing
Brock with their first bus
A big ending!
Brock during his army training, Champaign IL
Brock on the guitar
Taping a radio show
Promo photo with Ginger Smith Laxton
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One of the truly great love affairs of this world was between my dad and mom, Brock and Faye Speer. They had been married 51 years when my dad died in 1999. I recently found this 78 RPM recording that was dated 1946, two years before they were married. Brock is playing the guitar.

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One of the truly great love affairs of this world was between my dad and mom, Brock and Faye Speer. They had been married 51 years when my dad died in 1999. I recently found this 78 RPM recording that was dated 1946, two years before they were married. Brock is playing the guitar.

Mom takes the solo on stage
Elvis Presley with Brock and Ben
Brock, Dad, Ben, Jerry Red, Faye, Mom, Ann Sanders Downing
Jeanne and Bob Johnson, Harold Lane, Linda Robinson Sholar
Late 1970s (Brian is back-center)
Winning a Dove Award, early 1970s
With Joyce Black West
Ben, Brock, Dad and Mom
Recording in the living room
Traveling by car
Brian and Dad Speer
TV taping at WLAC, Nashville
Proud of a new Bullet Recording
Sue Chenault Dodge, Suzan Speer, Bob Johnson, Harold Lane, Brock, Ben Jeanne Johnson
Winning a dove award, late 1970s
Brock & Ben filling product orders
Mid-1970s
1974
Brock makes presentation to President Jimmy Carter
Singing for 250,000 at Expo 1970 in Dallas
1982
The Speer Siblings
Brock receives honorary doctorate from Trevecca Nazarene University, 1995
Rosa Nell, Harold Lane, Mary Tom, Brock, Faye, Ben