When Andy Williams and the original Osmond Brothers take the stage together July 4 at Alan Osmond's Stadium of Fire they'll sing side by side just as they used to in the 1960s.
Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay became regulars on Williams' NBC television variety show in 1962. Donny joined them a little later.After seven years on the show, the Osmonds sang and danced their way to other things. Although they've performed together occasionally over the years, the Fourth of July concert will be somewhat of a reunion.
The Osmond Brothers and Williams plan to blend put their familiar voices for a couple of numbers in Cougar Stadium.
"I'm anxious to see the Osmonds again and work with them," said Williams in a telephone interview from Los Angeles.
"I'm excited for our friends to meet the guy that discovered us," Alan Osmond said.
Actually, it was Williams' father who first spotted the original quartet singing at Disneyland. The boys soon auditioned for Williams, who liked what he saw and heard.
Alan Osmond said he and his brothers learned to play various musical instruments, tap dance, ice skate or whatever it took to perform specific routines on the show.
After leaving the Andy Williams Show, the mulitalented Osmonds turned to rock 'n' roll and later to country music.
Williams, who has recorded more than 70 albums, has a new country record titled "Nashville" due out in August. The album, recorded in Nashville, Tenn., is a mix of new and not-so-new country songs.
In Provo, Williams will sing a variety of songs, including "American Trilogy," a patriotic set he has been doing for some 20 years.