“The Eastern Gate” by the legendary Happy Goodmans.

The Happy Goodmans live in Florida at a televised all night gospel sing. Howard does a little preaching and the energy in this finale song is amazing. You can hear the audience worshipping while they sing and play.

[@austinobrien4563]

Oh how I miss them and the simplicity that was in those days. Preachers were real and churches feared the LORD!

[@ghostprepper5859]

The Spirit of God was there, people came expecting a touch for their needs. They had to have faith or die! Real battle harden Christiansy

[@carrolltucker]

Well said

[@toddandangelbrowning2920]

We still have an old fashioned pentecostal holiness church here I. Tuesday steep valleys of southern WV. We still have “Bobbie pin” services.

[@HubertLloydRich]

Good ole fashioned gospel 🎶

[@peggyolmsted9238]

@@HubertLloydRich😅 no😅

[@peggybegin8241]

My mom sang this to my Daddy before he died and the Goodman's CD was played at her funeral. On her headstone it reads "Inside the Eastern Gate, Bye for Now" Praise the Lord, I'll meet them there, one day.❤🙏😇

[@janet20257]

What a beautiful story and epitaph. ❤

[@truckinfam2207]

With Jesus Christ all things are possible 🙏

[@peggyolmsted9238]

No no a

[@joannatyack8641]

Howard and Vestal have such a unique, compelling sound, it brings me closer to Heaven. . I love listening to them.

[@holysanctified]

ALL OVER THE WORLD THEY NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS

[@jodyshowalter1066]

I absolutely loved Vestal goodman !!!!!!!

[@anitastrother1324]

No one had a voice like Vestal! Love this family so much. I got see them in concert amd wished they would never stop!

[@hsandra23]

Oh no one could sing like the Happy Goodman family,miss them so much.

[@darwinapala960]

Love their singing and how I miss the songs from the good ole days. Sis. Goodmans beehive hairdo reminds me of the ladies' hair in church when I was a kid. Classic and elegant

[@rickeyhorn9631]

I love this . back when gospel groups sang for Jesus.not worldly music.they lead so many Jesus.i miss the good old days

[@ezcleghorn4025]

I always thought comments like this made no sense because all of those gospel singers. Yes even back then listen to other things. Rusty Goodman sang country music and would sit in on the late night show at WSM in Nashville. Kenny Hinson‘s hero was George Jones. To say that you should only listen to gospel music is just, ignorant.

[@debroahisaacs2452]

Me too😇❤

[@estelleadamski308]

I've see the Goodman Family many times on stage in the 60's & early 70's. Love their singing. This is the music I grew up listening to.

[@kathyc00per2]

We will see Jesus in the eastern sky. He will call his church home. Cant wait to see Jesus and worship him for eternity.

[@lisaerickson6533]

See you there!

[@kathybrasher3732]

One day and not Manny days the saints are going to meet their loved ones whose there with Jesus now Lord keep me that I may see you there too Just inside the eastern gate what a incentive to meet Jesus there

[@cdean2950]

There will never be another Howard or Vestal❤❤❤❤!!!

[@alanparks7919]

How I loved them, on and offstage. There has never been anyone just like them, and there never will be again.

[@sandy6660]

Saw this group at our church. They blessed all of us with their annointed singing. Cherish the music of theirs we have in our home. ❤

[@gretaalcindor3913]

Beautiful memories, beautiful singing, beautiful song ❤❤❤❤

[@chrisvermeulen2270]

The"modern church"dont sing these anointing songs anymore!!!!

[@vickieviresrichie7622]

So sad, these annointed singers & songs bring the Spirit of God , True Worship, to drink from the Fountain of God .

[@greeneyes5894]

I'm so glad that my church still does.

[@johnglass2572]

Never get tired of listening to these voices. Always lifts me. Thank you, Goodmans!

[@nathanaellee8356]

Dr.Howard and Sister Vestal Goodman two of the easily recognizable and distinctive voices in Gospel music.

[@douglasgayhardt4231]

I THANK GOD FOR ALL OF THEM AND THEIR MINISTRY! They are sorely missed but thank goodness we still have their music to listen to!!

[@geralynburns4770]

I miss them both so much! When I was young they came to our church and I sang with Vestal, I will never ever forget it. I cannot wait to see them again in Heaven!!

[@rhondasheridan7049]

They came to our church too. I was extremely young. And I didn't get to sing with any of them lol. But as I grow old, I sure appreciate the good times we had at our church. Now a days it seems if the church isn't huge and fancy, ppl don't want to go. I'll stick with the smaller ones. Where everyone knows your name. God bless you 🙏

[@geralynburns4770]

I agree...But we know they are in heaven and we know we will see them very soon and I cannot wait! God Bless You as well ❤

[@gracehartwell9493]

Loved Howard and Vestel, what a blessing

[@michaeldavidfigures9842]

I watched the Happy Goodman's every Sunday during the 70's.

[@marylaw3465]

No one can sing like the Happy Goodman’s ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@JamesBailey-q2m]

I totally agree with you my name is Gayla

[@JamesBailey-q2m]

I saw them in Fayetteville Arkansas with my step dad. It was Awesome 😎

[@JamesBailey-q2m]

Awesome thanks for sharing this Song. Says Gayla

[@JamesBailey-q2m]

Glory to God 🙏

[@randypick1]

Goodmans were multi talented with a always best band to back them up.

[@johnhaan986]

Such a beautiful, meaningful song. So blessed to have been to Jerusalem and see the Eastern Gate! Oh, how I miss the Goodman’s! Vestal sings like no other!

[@Mary-x1y]

Oh how I love'd going to their concerts. As a kid, I wanted to sing just like her. I wondered as a child how she could hold her head up straight with all that hair. What a wonderful Christian woman I later found out that she was, and her spirit was as great as her hair.

[@KathiStambaugh]

In the late 1980’s, my husband and I had been invited to go with Wanda Lowe and her husband Tommy to the Heaven Bound concert in Augusta Georgia, we hadn’t heard of you guy’s before that night, but when the show was over, the both of us had become as Wanda would say, we had been converted into a couple of gospel groupies! Thanks for sharing your talents with us! GOD BLESS YOU, K. STAMBAUGH

[@kylanorrells3258]

This reminds me of when I was young standing by my Momma playing the piano. I loved it.

[@NoamOsband]

What a great memory. I love this music, and I now play it with my 4 year old at the piano. Hopefully he remembers this one day like you did....

[@JoeyWiggins-iv2fj]

Oh so forward looking to the Eastern Gate

[@DianaBowers-qi9oq]

I love the Goidmans. I also miss the older songs!!

[@mariagracemullins8839]

God bless you guys are doing so well with the power to the house of Christ is the only reason I have been praying for you guys

[@jimmaze9322]

My dad took me to see them in th sixties. Never forget the venue, Mobbs oneroom wooden schoolhouse just north of Arab, Alabama. O what a memory!

[@vickieviresrichie7622]

Beautiful fellowship with these Dear ones , Thankyou Father 🙌 Amen ✨💕✨

[@LeeAnneSchweitzer-ns4yl]

Blessing my soul this morning. 😊

[@randybock82]

Yes!!!

[@jgonzalez101]

Beautiful worship and adoration Song to our Lord Jesus Christ! ❤🙏🎶

[@jimwaymire7275]

One of my favorites!

[@bamafan9179]

Vestal is showing her range here! They were ANOINTED.!

[@charlesweaver9314]

Always makes tears in my eyes!

[@James-rt9mk]

Goodmans the best!😊

[@judyrobertson8166]

Thank you so much for your response. I've always enjoyed the Goodman Family Ministry. God bless you

[@rhondasheridan7049]

I bet your singing and shouting in heaven having a grand time. Can't wait to meet ya's. 😢

[@alsvacha9619]

They were one of the greatest singers ever

[@normadavey119]

Me,too.IAM A HUGE FAN!!!!!

[@teresaharrison2134]

I remember them from when I was a little girl. Vestal looks like my Momma.

[@davecarroll8186]

This song is eternal by the Goodmans!

[@conservativeneurologyb4999]

Thanks for posting. Viewing in 2024 (Ez.44)🙏

[@wandaarcher5126]

God is still Good my lamp is trimmed and Burning see you soon over there!!!!!

[@JohnFieldsjr.]

😂❤🎉

[@JohnFieldsjr.]

Played song on radio in 1974-johnny fields😂❤

[@VigdisBergh]

Love Goodmans awesome 🙌🙏🇳🇴

[@ernestclausner9023]

Yes ☝🏻Thank you. Love this one and seeing them singing it🙏

[@mimiwatching]

My papaw loved vestal and I still do!!!

[@thomasdequardo6620]

Let that Eastern Gate Open

[@lightspeed4596]

Amen and Amen 🙏

[@jamescrowe8635]

I'll Meet You You In Morning Over Praise The Lord AMEN

[@ezcleghorn4025]

Their Live stuff to me is something that I wish there was more of. I’m not talking about the stuff in the 90s with Bill. I’m talking about this stuff. Where is this from and is the full recording around anywhere? I would love to get my hands on like Board tapes. They only did two live albums, and one video that I’m aware of that was released, about 13 years ago and there need to be more of them put out there for the public.

[@JackEllis-b8z]

Love. Them there the best

[@julievanderleest]

Vestal’s hair is the highest hairdo I’ve ever seen. I thought it was a hat at first. It looks like it’s over a foot high. Wow.

[@dw387]

In her book, she says her beehive hair was a wig.

[@kathybrasher3732]

There was extremities then but the love if Jesus was stronger n Jesus has not changed

[@dhhenry7558]

My friend bought tickets as a Christmas gift to see Vestal in concert in PA? She went home to Jesus just a few weeks before that concert so I never did get to see her…

[@dotmurphy7279]

Who cares about Vestal's hair. It's her voice that gets to me. Vestal believed what she was singing.

[@tomhulbert2784]

I feel the same way every time I watch her and many other old singers. Now I’m not doubting the faith of the newer artists but there’s something about the old generation.

[@gilbrown5739]

Yes it is

[@MarlaHorman]

❤ Love the Goodmans ❤

[@justtim7334]

Love it.

[@lentishiabradsher1967]

thank you lord i live

[@dutchleussink156]

Awesome!

[@brendamayfield3761]

Amazing love

[@darylshearer7759]

Hallelujah! 🙏🙌😊

[@Justnobody0950]

Wow, did they have talent. Love to hear them sing. And you know why Vestal was always so big? So she could carry that 60 lb. beehive on top of her head. 😂❤❤

[@bencearley334]

My late grandma was friends with vestal Goodman

[@JimmyMac717]

I wonder if Vestal ever suffered with neck injuries from carrying around that mountain of hair? I don’t mean that as a criticism, but that has its own Zip Code.

[@user-ky2sn8nw2i]

Vestals hair! My goodness, that took work!!!

[@sharonradford5781]

I’m a hairdresser of 31 years and I pray fervently that those styles never come back! 😂

[@Neva-gb7vl]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kathyc00per2]

I sure miss rusty singing.

[@David-su3ic]

I'll meet u Son Baby Tucker inside the Eastern Gate Rip 1/21/07 - 6-24-22

[@garethm3171]

Is Vestal's hair real!!

[@barbaracox8613]

No, it was a wig.

[@wandadorsey8895]

When I saw this group perform in the 60’s and 70’s, Vestal’s hair was real. This group had their roots in Pentecostal churches. Back then Pentecostal women did Not cut their hair, did Not wear pants and did Not wear makeup and jewellery . A woman doing these things were considered too worldly . Of course, over the years that has changed. But some people have held to these strict standards. I was raised that way, but some churches have eased up on this stuff. I feel now, that what matters is what’s in your heart, Not how you look. Blessings

[@barbaracox8613]

@@wandadorsey8895 Vestal said in her book that it was a wig. I have seen some pictures where the hair wasn’t so tall and I figured that was hers. She had heart surgery in 1974. She said in her book that after she got over that, she just didn’t care to mess with the wig anymore. She said she could have hidden a football in it!

[@judyrobertson8166]

I'd like to know the title of the song that says"when I close my eyes in death".

[@barbaracox8613]

Rock of Ages?

[@janfox3087]

Yes. That’s right Barbara! While I draw this fleeting breath, when mine eyes shall close in death, when I soar to worlds unknown, see thee on thy judgment throne, Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee.

[@patriciajrs46]

She sounds like Lulu Roman.

[@patriciaarmstrong6601]

Man her hair was tall

[@goneysangullies]

Vaudeville.

[@nvguy7]

Just bizarre.

[@barbaracox8613]

What is just bizarre?