The Weatherfords (also Weatherford Quartet and Weatherford Trio) is an American southern gospel music vocal group.The Weatherfords were formed by husband and wife Earl and Lily Weatherford, who first began singing together in the mid-1940s in Long Beach, California after their marriage in 1944. Earl had founded the group prior to this as an all-male troupe, and Lily began filling in on the tenor parts in 1948, eventually becoming the group's most visible member.