Rodeheaver, Homer A. (1880-1955) & Lakin, B.R. (1901 - 1984)
Glad Tiding in Song - SIGNED
Winona Lake, IN: Rodeheaver Hall-mack Co.. 1945. 8vo. 100 pp. Softcover volume, including 103 traditional hymns, gospel songs and responsive readings in rear. A scarce signed volume of religious music, compiled and inscribed by the American evangelistic musician, jazz trombonist and music publisher, one of the first white musicians to play with black musicians and to admit the African roots of American music such as jazz and gospel.Signed by Rodeheaver on the title "Homer Rodeheaver / Col 3:16" and additionally by Bascom Ray Laykin, Baptist preacher and evangelist, well known through his weekly radio boradcasts. Ownership signature at head of same page and performance notes on facing inner front cover. A few creases to covers, else fine.
"During the first half of the 20th century he greatly influenced the creation and popularization of gospel song both in the USA and elsewhere. He worked for 20 years with the evangelist Billy Sunday. In 1910, with Bentley DeForrest Ackley, he established the Rodeheaver–Ackley publishing house in Chicago, which became the Rodeheaver Co. in 1911. With the purchase of the Hall–Mack Co. of Philadelphia in 1936 Rodeheaver’s company, now the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co., became a leader in the field of gospel music. The firm moved to Winona Lake, Indiana, in 1941, and changed its name back to the Rodeheaver Co.; in 1969 it became a division of Word, Inc. During the 1920s Rodeheaver established Rainbow Records, one of the earliest labels devoted solely to gospel song recordings. Although he composed little, Rodeheaver edited or compiled some 80 collections of Gospel songs." (Thomas Henry Porter, Grove Online) (8735)
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