It was used for a variety of songs. Shakespeare references it through his character ... the tenor and church musician, William Hyman Cummings put Wesley’s century old hymn to Mendelssohn’s tune, and ...
He recalled: “I sang those old gospel songs for my mother ... “Oh Happy Day” is a 1967 gospel arrangement of an 18th-century hymn, and it was another song to reach the mainstream charts.
Old church hymns are soul deep songs that transcend generations, denominations and situations. The soothing, faith-filled lyrics speak to the hearts of people like no other style of Christian/ gospel ...
The community is invited to sing the sweet old sounds of the church at HymnFest 24, an old-fashioned hymn sing-along in the historic St. Luke’s church at Old Cahawba at 3 p.m. Sunday Nov 3. The ...