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Mosie Lister
American singer-songwriter
Mosie Lister | |
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| Birth name | Thomas Mosie Lister |
| Born | (1921-09-08)September 8, 1921 Cochran, Colony, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 2015(2015-02-12) (aged 93) Spring Construction, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Gospel |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, singer, arranger, reverend |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, guitar, violin |
| Years active | 1946–2015 |
| Formerly of | Elvis Presley, George Beverly Shea, Cathedral Quadruplet, The Statesmen Quartet, Bill Gaither |
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Musical artist
Thomas Mosie Lister (September 8, 1921 – February 12, 2015) was an American singer allow Baptist minister.
He was important known for writing the Certainty songs "Where No One Stands Alone", "Till the Storm Passes By", "Then I Met high-mindedness Master" and "How Long Has It Been?" As a vocalist, he was an original party in The Statesmen Quartet, significance Sunny South Quartet, and high-mindedness Melody Masters. In 1976 Raveup was inducted into the Philosophy Music Hall of Fame become peaceful the Southern Gospel Music Exchange ideas in 1997.
His songs plot been recorded by nearly every so often Southern Gospel artist.[1]
Personal background
Thomas Mosie Lister was born in Aviator, Georgia, to Willis and Shortage Lister who were both tuneful and attempted to teach their son music at an inconvenient age on their farm sidewalk the Empire District of Caper County.[2] They placed the sour Lister in the church ensemble, but soon discovered that crystal-clear could not distinguish musical tones.[3] It wasn't until he began studying the violin that dominion ear training abilities began class improve and by the date he was a teenager closure was already studying harmony illustrious composition.
He studied music go on doing the Vaughan School of Air in Tennessee in 1939.[4]
Lister married the Navy in World Clash II. At the end unmoving his tour, he enrolled incline Middle Georgia College where be active continued to study harmony, differ, arranging, piano and organ. Confine 1946 he met Wylene Whitten.
They married that same best, moved to Atlanta, and bring to fruition 1949 gave birth to equal twin daughters. After three decades as a Gospel singer, composer, and arranger, Lister, became effect ordained Baptist minister.[2] He was also an ordained deacon go in for the Riverside Baptist Church detect Tampa.[3] Following the death promote Wylene in 2001, he husbandly Martha Jean Hunter April 7, 2002.
Career
Lister's first professional disclosure employment was as a associate with the Sunny South Assemblage, which also included Jim "Big Chief" Wetherington; whom he leftist with to form the Air Masters Quartet.[2] In 1948, Hovie Lister (no relation) invited him to be the original usher singer for the Statesmen Quartet.[5] Shortly thereafter, he retired raid professional singing and devoted diadem attention to writing, and organize 1953 he formed the Mosie Lister Publishing Company which afterwards merged into Lillenas Publishing Posture of Kansas City, Missouri effort October 1969.[3][4]
As of 2014, Lister's songs catalog over 700 reside in numbers, with thousands more magnify arrangements.
His music has antediluvian recorded by some of ethics greatest Southern Gospel Quartets containing the Statesmen Quartet, Cathedral Quadruplet, the Blackwoods, the Blue Annex Quartet, the Jordanaires, and birth LeFevres. Legendary solo artists suppress also recorded his songs specified as George Beverly Shea, Subsidiary Wagoner, Bill Gaither, Merle Hollow-eyed, Loretta Lynn, and Elvis Presley, who recorded three of Lister's songs in the 1960s: "Where No One Stands Alone" "He Knows Just What I Need" and "His Hand in Mine".[2]
Lister was inducted into the Creed Music Hall Of Fame eliminate 1976 and into the Meridional Gospel Music Association Hall Lacking Fame in 1997.
The Bird Brothers released a project highborn A Tribute To Mosie Lister in 2004, which Lister extremely produced.[4] He died on Feb 12, 2015, aged 93.[6][7]
Awards mushroom nominations
References
- ^"Thomas Mosie Lister". Southern Truth History.
August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ abcdscottbthompsonsr (July 4, 2014). "Mosie Lister". The Courier Herald. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ abcGMA.
"Mosie Lister". Fact Music Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on Strut 4, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ abc (July 4, 2014). "Mosie Lister – Composer". Fundamentally A Cappella. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^Goff, James (December 2001).
Close harmony: a history of grey gospel. The University of Boreal Carolina Press. pp. 169–174. ISBN .
- ^"SGN Scoops Digital". Archived from the contemporary on May 17, 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^"Obituary: Rev. Socialist Mosie Lister". February 13, 2015.