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| Short Name: | W. Elmo Mercer |
| Full Name: | Mercer, W. Elmo |
| Birth Year: | 1932 |
| Death Year: | 2020 |
William Elmo Mercer wrote more than 1,600 songs and worked extensively as a music arranger. Arguably his best known song is “Each Step I Take." Mercer worked for the John T. Benson company from 1951 to 1981 as a music editor. He also consulted for LifeWay, Lorenz, Brentwood, and other music companies. He and his wife Marcia traveled as singing evangelists for three decades and he served as the music minister for Scottsboro First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Monty Lynn, from "William Elmo Mercer," Southern Gospel History, https://www.sghistory.com/
Tunes by W. Elmo Mercer (11) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEHOLD THE LAMB (Rambo) | W. Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 1 | 51111 23455 56333 |
| BENSON (Mercer) | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 53332 11166 51354 |
| [Do you need a friend to keep you till the end] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 3 | 34453 32164 23456 |
| [Each step I take my Savior goes before me] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 12 | 51354 65123 32343 |
| [Hark! as One, to the door approaches] | Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 2 | |
| [I have decided once for all, I will answer my Savior's call] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | |
| [I have looked across a meadow] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | |
| [País donde no hay sombras ni tinieblas] (13332) | W. Elmo Mercer (Arranger) | 2 | 13332 21223 15655 |
| [That day when they crucified my Savior] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | |
| [The way that He loves is as fair as the day] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 51135 35653 21316 |
| [Up the Calvary way] | W. Elmo Mercer (Composer) | 2 | 34555 56544 44543 |
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