# How many unnamed (so far) GOO members can you name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168 "2008-04-13T15:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/1 "2008-04-13T15:42:26Z")
If you’re a fan of Goo-goo candy, did you know that GOO is Grand Ole Opry? Anyway, add to the list but try not to repeat any names. Living or dead is okay. Chet Atkins Hank Snow Ernest Tubb Hank Williams Roy Acuff Minnie Pearl ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/2 "2008-04-13T16:22:04Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] If you’re a fan of Goo-goo candy, did you know that GOO is Grand Ole Opry? Anyway, add to the list but try not to repeat any names. Living or dead is okay. Chet Atkins Hank Snow Ernest Tubb Hank Williams Roy Acuff Minnie Pearl [/QUOTE] It looks like the Goo-goo candy cluster predates the Grand Ole Opry by at least a decade, so if it was named _after_ the show, it would have to have been either _before_ the show came on (1925?) or after some retrofitting of the facts. I just never bothered to check the obvious connection for authenticity. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/3 "2008-04-14T01:01:41Z")
Johnny Cash June Carter Cash The Everly Brothers Bill Monroe Grandpa Jones Marty Robbins ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/4 "2008-04-14T02:26:49Z")
Some of my personal favorites: Trace Adkins Bill Anderson Dierks Bentley Clint Black Garth Brooks Roy Clark Charlie Daniels Diamond Rio Little Jimmy Dickens Joe Diffie Gatlin Brothers Vince Gill Tom T. Hall George Hamilton IV Emmylou Harris Alan Jackson George Jones Hal Ketchum Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless Loretta Lynn Barbara Mandrell Martina McBride Del McCoury Reba McEntire Ronnie Milsap Lorrie Morgan Brad Paisley Dolly Parton Charley Pride Jeanne Pruett Riders In The Sky Ricky Van Shelton Ricky Skaggs Connie Smith Ralph Stanley Marty Stuart Mel Tillis Pam Tillis Randy Travis Travis Tritt Josh Turner Steve Wariner The Whites Trisha Yearwood Yes, I like country music! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/5 "2008-04-14T04:47:51Z")
Maybelle Carter Rod Brassfield Johnny Paycheck About anyone else that I can think of has already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/6 "2008-04-14T12:31:50Z")
Thanks for the great replies from some people who should be able to answer a question I hadn’t bothered to check before posting the OP. When did “member” become a designation? In searching for a definitive list online I couldn’t locate the names in the OP under the “official” members list which **kaiwik** posted most (if not all) of. I know those folks were regulars when I was a kid, and on up until they died, and surely they’re official members of the CMHOF, but is there some cutoff date for the use of the term “member” as it relates to the Opry? I should go ahead and confess this, I suppose. I have been to several shows at the Ryman, and I saw Ray Charles at the new Opry House in Opryland and I have watched parts of a few GOO shows on TV and listened to some on the radio, but I have yet to go to a live show of the Opry in all the years I have been in Nashville. Is that blasphemy? Do you have similar experiences with whatever it is that makes your hometown famous or at least noteworthy? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-unnamed-so-far-goo-members-can-you-name/445168/7 "2008-04-14T13:41:25Z")
**Zeldar** - Over 20 years in Nashville and I’ve never seen the Opry. I did see “Always, Patsy Cline” at the Ryman. StG