Inducted 2003

Dwight Brock is a godfather of Southern Gospel pianists. 

He was the original pianist for the Frank Stamps Quartet, a composer for the Stamps-Baxter Music Company and eventually its President. He also worked with the Athens Music Company, helping promote gospel music's great cause. 

Brock is credited with setting a precedent that would forever change Southern Gospel Music. He was hired as pianist for the Stamps Quartet in 1927, becoming the industry's first sole piano accompanist. The "five-man quartet" became a standard gospel music performing ensemble. Brock is also generally considered the industry's first rhythm pianist. 

He accompanied the Stamps All-Star Quartet when it became the first gospel group to be recorded by a major record label, RCA Victor. The Stamps recorded "Give the World a Smile," a best-seller which became a classic song, symbolic of the gospel quartet phenomena. 

Brock also played piano for the Vaughan Radio Quartet and was manager and pianist for the Brock-Denson Quartet. 

Brock was inducted into the Southern Gospel Piano Roll of Honor in 1996. Brock's sister, Lena, married G.T. "Dad" Speer, who were matriarch and patriarch, respectively, of gospel music's legendary Speer Family.