The Jordanaires 1978 the group performed a medley of Presley's songs on the NBC TV special "Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday". The group changed again in 1982, when Hoyt Hawkins died. His replacement was Duane West, formerly of Sonny James' backup group, the Southern Gentlemen. In 1990, the group provided backing vocals for Presley's former Sun Records labelmate Johnny Cash on his Mercury Records album "Boom Chicka Boom". The group has also cooperated with Vikingarna. The lineup remained constant for the rest of the decade, with West leaving due to an illness in 1999 and his death in 2002. His replacement
A Weapon Called the Word of the album exist: the original 1990 release which has 12 tracks (the first twelve listed below) and a 1996 re-release by Musidisc which added two live recordings of the band's guitarist/vocalists Mark Chadwick and Simon Friend plus a remix of the track "Three Friends" to the end of the album. This album is noteworthy in the Levellers' catalogue for being the only full-length album to feature the musical input of Alan Miles, who played guitar, harmonica and mandolin and supplied backing vocals as well as contributing musical arrangements. He was subsequently replaced by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Simon Friend. The