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[O lift up your eyes, ye people all]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: V. O. Fossett Incipit: 51345 56712 33325

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Sing Glad Praises

Author: B. B. Edmiaston Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O lift up your eyes, ye people all Refrain First Line: Sing glad praises, sing unto the Lord Used With Tune: [O lift up your eyes, ye people all]

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Sing Glad Praises

Author: B. B. Edmiaston Hymnal: Fossett's Inspirational Melodies #118 (1952) First Line: O lift up your eyes, ye people all Refrain First Line: Sing glad praises, sing unto the Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [O lift up your eyes, ye people all]

Sing Glad Praises

Author: B. B. Edmiaston Hymnal: Shining Path #112 (1946) First Line: O lift up your eyes, ye people all Refrain First Line: Sing glad praises, sing unto the Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [O lift up your eyes, ye people all]

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V. O. Fossett

1904 - 1964 Composer of "[O lift up your eyes, ye people all]" in Fossett's Inspirational Melodies Died: December 20, 1964. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. A native of DeKalb County, Alabama, Fossett attended his first Gospel Music School at age 12. At age 16, he attended Thomas Mosley’s Normal School. By age 19, he began singing and playing in a quartet. By 1937, he was teaching in High Point, North Carolina, where he married Katherine Strother. Three years later, he joined the Chattanooga, Tennessee, office of the Stamps-Baxter music publishers. Fossett’s works include: Fossett’s Inspirational Melodies (Dallas, Texas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company, 1952) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Author of "Sing Glad Praises" in Fossett's Inspirational Melodies Benard Bates Edmiaston Born: Ju­ly 16, 1881, Ben­netts, Bax­ter Coun­ty, Ar­kan­sas. Died: De­cem­ber 2, 1964, Bronte, Tex­as. Buried: Fair­view Ce­me­te­ry, Bronte, Tex­as. Bernard was the son of Da­vid W. Ed­mi­as­ton and Geor­gia Ann Flu­ty, and hus­band of El­la Al­len. He stu­died mu­sic un­der Ru­fus Tur­ner, Frank­lin Ei­land, W. H. Law­son, Ber­ry Mc­Gee, Em­mett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Her­bert, and ma­ny oth­ers, and taught sing­ing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and pub­lished songs through the Trio Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, Wa­co, Tex­as, and was di­rec­tor of the South­ern De­vel­op­ment Nor­mal School of Mu­sic in W­aco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)
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