Doug Oldham

Doug Oldham (b. Indiana, November 11, 1930 – d. Charlottesville, Virginia, July 21, 2010) – Singer and musical minister. Indiana native Doug Oldham graduated from Anderson College in 1952 and started singing at tent revivals led by his father, William Dale Oldham, in the early 1960s. Around that time, he met Bill Gaither and started traveling with him, with Gaiter on piano and Oldham handling lead vocals. In fact, Gaither was one of the first Southern Gospel singers to perform Gaither songs, including “He Touched Me.” After leaving the town of Anderson in 1968, Oldham became a big star in Gospel music in the early 1970s, when he began singing on television’s Old Time Gospel Hour with Jerry Falwell. He also traveled with the Billy Graham Crusades. Throughout a fifty-year career, Oldham won two Dove awards, recorded over sixty albums, sang for six U.S. presidents, and traveled the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2006, he was inducted in the American Gospel Hall of Fame.