Albert E. Brumley
Albert Edward Brumley was an American shape note gospel music composer and publisher.
Brumley was born near Spiro, Oklahoma on October 29, 1905. PreDustbowl Oklahoma was primarily made up of sparse agricultural communities Brumleys family was no different. He spent much of his early life chopping and picking cotton on his familys farm. In 1926, he enrolled in the Hartford Musical Institute of Hartford, Arkansas, and studied there through 1931. The Institute was led by Eugene Monroe Bartlett , owner of the Hartford Music Company and composer of the wellknown gospel song Victory in Jesus. Brumley purchased Hartford Music Company in 1948.
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