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Hymn Story: I’ll Fly Away

October 25, 2020 Leave a comment

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I’ll Fly Away was written by Albert E. Brumley in 1929. The song was influenced by the 1924 secular ballad, “The Prisoner’s Song”. Brumley was reportedly picking cotton on his father’s farm in Rock Island, Oklahoma. Brumley says that as he worked he was “humming the old ballad that went like this: ‘If I had the wings of an angel, […]

Behind the Song: If We Never Meet Again

May 17, 2020 One comment

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Elvis recorded the song If We Never Meet Again on his 1960 album His Hand in Mine. The song was written by Albert E. Brumley. Brumley was born near Spiro, Oklahoma in 1905. His childhood was spent in a sparse agricultural community, working the family farm. He studied at Hartford Musical Institute and later purchased the Hartford Music Company in […]

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Hymn Story: I’ll Fly Away

Behind the Song: If We Never Meet Again