If We Never Meet Again

July 22, 2018 (Sunday)
Albert E. Brumley wrote this time-honored popular hymn. He was born October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma, and died November 15, 1977, at Springfield, Missouri. He 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, many of which are universal favorites. The Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970.