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Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Author: Thomas Andrew Dorsey Meter: Irregular Appears in 112 hymnals
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
PRECIOUS LORD
Meter: Irregular Appears in 86 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas A. Dorsey Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 34555 13321 16166 Used With Text: Precious Lord, Take My Hand
PRECIOUS LORD
[Precious Lord, take my hand]
Appears in 596 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George N. Allen; Thomas A. Dorsey Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 34551 32161 65513 Used With Text: Precious Lord, Take My Hand
[Precious Lord, take my hand]
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Author: Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) Hymnal: Lift Every Voice and Sing II #106 (1993) First Line: Precious Lord, take my hand Topics: Hymns and Songs Jesus Christ our Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [Precious Lord, take my hand]
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Author: Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899-1993 Hymnal: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #163 (2018) Meter: Irregular Topics: The Assembly at Worship Prayer; Providence of Jesus Christ Scripture: Psalm 139:10 Languages: English Tune Title: PRECIOUS LORD
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Author: T. A. D. Hymnal: Songs of Zion #179 (1981) First Line: When my way grows drear, precious Lord, linger near Topics: Gospel Songs Languages: English Tune Title: [When my way grows drear, precious Lord, linger near]
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Thomas Andrew Dorsey
1899 - 1993 Person Name: Thomas A. Dorsey Author of "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" in Sing Joyfully Thomas Andrew Dorsey was born in Villa Rica, a small rural town near Atlanta, Georgia. In 1919 he moved to Chicago. Most of his musical training was in the church, but he also studied and played jazz and blues. He later combined jazz and blues with religious texts, giving birth to gospel music. In 1931, along with Magnolia Lewis-Butts and Theodore Roosevelt Frye, he established the first gospel choir at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Chicago. He went on to lead the gospel choir at Pilgrim Baptist Church, which he led for 60 years. Dorsey was also instrumental in founding the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC) in 1933. The convention taught choirs all over the country how to sing gospel music.
Dianne Shapiro, from "Gospel" in Encyclopedia of Chicago (accessed 8/12/2020)
Thomas Andrew Dorsey
R. E. Winsett
1876 - 1952 Harmonizer (mixed quartet) of "[When my way groweth drear, precious Lord linger near]" in Church Hymnal Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music.
Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899.
He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory.
He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day).
Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children.
Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame.
--www.wikipedia.org
R. E. Winsett
James Rowe
1865 - 1933 Author of "Take my hand, precious Lord" in A.M.E. Hymnal Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
James Rowe
