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Don Peterman

b. 1925 Hymnal Number: 56 Arranger of "[Throw out the lifeline across the dark wave!]" in Songs of Zion

R. Nathaniel Dett

1882 - 1943 Person Name: R. Nathaniel Dett, 1882-1943 Hymnal Number: 205 Arranger of "[We are climbing Jacob's ladder]" in Songs of Zion

1938 - 2019 Hymnal Number: 50 Composer of "[The right hand of God is writing in our land]" in Songs of Zion Noel Dexter was born on December 21, 1938 and grew up in Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica. He studied ethnomusicology and church music at the University of West Indies, in the United Kingdom and in the United States. He founded and led the Kingston Singers as well as other theatrical productions. For 25 years he was director of music at the University of West Indies, Mona, While there he lead the University Singers, until 2012, when he retired. He composed many hymns, anthems, and arrangements. Dianne Shapiro, from "Music Great, Noel Dexter, Remembered" in "The Gleaner," August 19, 2019 (accessed online 8/6/2020)

Dottie Rambo

1934 - 2008 Hymnal Number: 31 Author of "He Looked Beyond My Fault" in Songs of Zion

F. A. Clark

1868 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 55 Arranger of "[We are often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of time]" in Songs of Zion F. A. Clark (Francis A.) was a respected Black musician and composer from Philadelphia. Dianne Shapiro, from "Charles Albert Tindley: Progenitor of Black-American Gospel Music," by Horace Clarence Boyer, in The Black Perspective in Music Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 103-132 (retrieved online from JSTOR, 8/27/2020)

Dolores Lane

b. 1933 Person Name: Dolores Lane, 1933- Hymnal Number: 76 Arranger of "[Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in my heart]" in Songs of Zion

J. Edward Hoy

Person Name: J. Edward Hoy, 1920- Hymnal Number: 21 Arranger of "[Nothing between my soul and the Savior]" in Songs of Zion

John S. Norris

1844 - 1907 Person Name: John Samuel Norris, 1844-1907 Hymnal Number: 42 Composer of "[I can hear my Savior calling]" in Songs of Zion Rv John Samuel Norris United Kingdom/USA 1844-1907. Born at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, he emigrated to the US when young and attended school in Canada. He was ordained a Methodist minister in Oshawa, ON, in 1868. Over the next decade he pastored at churches in Canada, NY, and WI. He switched to the Congregationalist denomination in 1878, serving churches in Mondovi, Shullsburg, and Hixton, WI, and Grand Rapids, MI. From 1882 -1901 he held pastorates at Ames, Webster City, Parkersburg, Peterson, and Tripoli, IA.. He died in Chicago, IL. John Perry

James Cleveland

1932 - 1991 Person Name: J. Jefferson Cleveland, 1937- Hymnal Number: 215 Arranger of "OLIVET" in Songs of Zion b. Chicago, 5 Dec. 1932; d. Los Angeles, 9 Feb. 1991; American gospel singer, composer and pianist; he issued more than 50 albums, was awarded six gold records and two Grammy awards and established the Gospel Music Workshop of America in August 1968. From 1971 until his death he served as pastor of the Cornerstone Institutional Baptist Church, Los Angeles

Homer L. Cox

1879 - 1930 Person Name: H. L. C. Hymnal Number: 16 Author of "It's Real" in Songs of Zion Homer L. Cox (1879-1930) was a turn of the 20th century Quaker/Friends Church preacher. He covered most of the Midwest and a lot of the western United States. His ministry and writings were significant enough to merit a biography shortly after his death. Homer L. Cox: The Man and His Messages, was published by the Cleveland Bible Institute, © 1930. Cox was typical of a lot of “colorful” preachers and evangelists of that era, such as D.L. Moody and Billy Sunday. He once said that he, “Expressed gratitude for a friend receiving the Holy Ghost’s ‘embalming fluid’ from the great Undertaker in the skies.” As corny as that statement was Cox redeemed himself in 1907 with the words and music of this great testimony. Although the song is in our hymnals, I remember it mostly being performed as a solo by song evangelists such as my father, Howard Sherrow. And once you learn more about Homer Cox and his personality it’s not difficult to see that these words he wrote are distinctly his “voice.” --www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php/