It Is Still the Sweetest Story Ever Told

Author: Albert E. Brumley

Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri. Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970. © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)… Go to person page >

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First Line: Long ago in old Judea, by the Galilean shore
Title: It Is Still the Sweetest Story Ever Told
Author: Albert E. Brumley (1955)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: It is still the sweetest story ever told
Copyright: © 1955, by Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co. in "Shepherd's Love"

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Shepherd's Love #68

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