[Within my heart I hold a fadeless memory]

[Within my heart I hold a fadeless memory]

Composer: A. H. Ackley
Published in 5 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Within my heart I hold a fadeless memory]
Composer: A. H. Ackley
Incipit: 53323 44123 45563
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • The Organist Volume 77 Number 6 January 1974: A Bi-monthly Magazine for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Roger C. Wilson; Van Denman Thompson
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1974) pp. 22
  • The Amateur Organist No. 65: a Collection of Organ Voluntaries for Church Use
    Composer/Editor Van Denman Thompson
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1973) pp. 22
  • Gospel Stylings for the Modern Organist: The Ackley Gospel Collection
    Composer/Editors Ralph Sunden; William McMains
    Published By: Pointer Publications, Inc. (1970) pp. 36
  • The Church Year Number One: Easy Organ Voluntaries for Liturgical Church Use
    Composer/Editors Howard Zettervall; Van Denman Thompson
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1961) pp. 56
  • The Amateur Organist No. 26: A Collection of Organ Voluntaries for Church Use
    Composer/Editor Walter R. Clarke
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1958) pp. 15
  • The Organist Volume 61 Number 4 September 1957: A Bi-Monthly Magazine for Church Organists
    Composer/Editors Rob Roy Peery; Walter R. Clarke
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1957) pp. 15

Piano Solo

  • Instrumental Church Service Selections No. 2: For Organ or Piano
    Composer/Editors Clarence Kohlmann; Alfred H. Ackley
    Published By: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company (1948) pp. 32

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
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Evangelistic Center Songs #66

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Glad Gospel Songs #57

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Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns #94

Old and New Songs of the Church #34

Upper Room Hymns #85

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