Heart Warming
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Heart Warming was a gospel record label started by Bob Benson and his father, John T. Benson Jr. Heart Warming and their chief rival Canaan (owned by Word Records) were arguably the two biggest and best gospel labels in their time. The Oak Ridge Boys, Stamps Quartet, The Imperials and Speer Family all signed to it and had many recordings on it. The Cathedral Quartet produced two of their most popular albums on it With Brass and With Strings and The Statesmen Quartet recorded on there as well.
Producers for the label included Bob Benson, Bob MacKenzie, and Don Light. Bob MacKenzie in particular produced some of the best gospel albums of that era and some of the best albums of the groups above.
Eventually the Benson company dropped the Heart Warming label instead having RiverSong be the southern gospel division and Impact and later Benson labels be their contemporary labels.
