Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The group toured extensively on the East Coast and central United States in the 1940s and 1950s and signed a recording contract with Philadelphia-based Gotham Records in 1947. Their recording "Touch Me, Lord Jesus" was a hit on R&B stations in 1949 [ 2 ] and sold over a million records. [ 1 ]
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hallelujah as “a song or shout of praise to God,” but biblical scholars will tell you it’s actually a smash-up of two Hebrew words: “hallel” meaning ...
The phrase "hallelujah" translates to "praise Jah/Yah", [2] [12] though it carries a deeper meaning as the word halel in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song, to boast in God. [13] [14] The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH, and is a shortened form of his name "God, Jah, or Jehovah". [3]
Philip Paul Bliss. Philip Paul Bliss (9 July 1838 – 29 December 1876) was an American composer, conductor, writer of hymns and a bass-baritone [1] Gospel singer.He wrote many well-known hymns, including "Hold the Fort" (1870), "Almost Persuaded" (1871); "Hallelujah, What a Saviour!"
Over the years he published close to 100 major works and many annual works such as anthems for Easter, Christmas, and children’s choirs. William J. Kirkpatrick died on 20 September 1921. He told his wife that night that he had a tune running through his head and he wanted to write it down before he lost it.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
"Hallelujah" (Carrie Underwood song), a 2020 Christmas song co-performed with John Legend " Hallelujah (So Low) ", a 2018 song by Editors "Hallelujah!", a 1927 song written by Vincent Youmans, Leo Robin and Clifford Grey for Hit the Deck (musical)
Hallelujah Junction, California ... Bethlehem was founded in 1741 on Christmas Eve and nicknamed "Christmas City, USA" in 1937, the same year the town erected its first Christmas star atop nearby ...