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[There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky!]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. H. Meredith Incipit: 53267 65134 64343 Used With Text: Christmas Carol

Christmas Carol

Author: Dr. J. G. Holland Appears in 205 hymnals First Line: There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky! Used With Tune: [There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky!]

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Author: Dr. J. G. Holland Hymnal: Sunday School Hymns No. 2 #226 (1912) First Line: There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky! Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky!]

Christmas Carol

Author: Dr. J. G. Holland Hymnal: Jehovah's Praise #243 (1928) First Line: There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky]

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I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Composer of "[There's a song in the air! there's a star in the sky!]" in Sunday School Hymns No. 2 Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton

Josiah G. Holland

1819 - 1881 Person Name: Dr. J. G. Holland Author of "Christmas Carol" in Sunday School Hymns No. 2 Holland, Josiah Gilbert, was born at Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819. He was for some time on the staff of the Springfield Republican, and became in 1870 the editor of Scribner's Magazine. He has written several successful books, and some poetical pieces. One of the latter, "For summer's bloom, and autumn's blight" (Praise in and through all things), was included, from Bitter Sweet, 1858, in the Boston Unitarian Hymn [and Tune] Book for the Church & Home, 1868. He died Oct. 12, 1881. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Holland, J. G. , p. 529, ii. His Christmas Carol, “There's a star in the sky," from The Marble Prophecy and other Poems, 1872, is included in the American Methodist Hymnal, 1905. He died Oct. 12, 1881. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)