This tune is likely the work of the composers named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list above.
William J. Reynolds, in his Companion to Baptist Hymnal (1976) writes as follows:
“Happy Day appeared in William McDonald’s Wesleyan Sacred Harp (Boston, 1854),…
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