Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?

Subject: who will sing for me - tune?
From:
Date: 07 Nov 97 - 04:37 AM

Hi there,

I have the lyrics to 'who will sing for me' but have no idea how to sing it b/c I don't know the melody. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Clara

Subject: RE: who will sing for me - tune?
From: Richard
Date: 26 Nov 97 - 07:06 PM

Try Emmy Lou Harris's Angel Band cassette. I know the tune but can't sing it from here.

Subject: RE: who will sing for me - tune?
From: Richard
Date: 26 Nov 97 - 07:39 PM

You also might want to see the discussion of this song posted Oct 1, 97.

Subject: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: GUEST,Lin in Kansas
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 01:10 PM

Hi all--

Does anyone have dots or a midi for this song? I've Googled until I'm blue, but can't find the music, and I'm hopeless at trying to write it out by ear.

Don't need the lyrics, they're in the DT, but no tune.

So if we can come up with one, I'll send it to MMario for the Great Tune Add, too!

Anybody?

Thanks,
Lin

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: pdq
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM

If someone wants to simply listen to this song, try "The Three Pickers" CD with Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs and Earl Scruggs. It is nearly a 'must have' from last year anyway.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 02:36 PM

It's a Stamps-Baxter song (actually titled "Who'll Sing For Me," written by Thomas J. Farris, published in 1944), which means you'll find it in a number of Stamps-Baxter hymnals. I've got it in one called Sentimental Songs (1946), and I'll post a MIDI a while later, after I finish my home-schooling chores.

I'll bet there's a good story behind Stamps-Baxter. Many of my favorite gospel songs were first published by that firm. If you like to sing gospel, you ought to have a Stamps-Baxter hymnal or two. They're unbelievably plentiful (and cheap). I don't know who's publishing the Stamps-Baxter songs nowadays.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 02:36 PM

pdq:

Yep, that's where I heard it first--great CD. Sounds like the three of them (and Alison Krauss as a guest) had a lot of fun!

I'm still looking for dots or a midi...?

Lin

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 07:18 PM

Thanks, Joe--

We must have cross-posted above. A midi will be terrific!

Lin

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 07:30 PM

I love this by the Stanley Brothers. I can't imagine anyone doing it as well as they did... just personal prejudice..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 09:56 PM

I dunno, Jerry. I think I'd like to hear you and the Gospel Messengers do it. I bet you'd sound terrific.
Anyhow, here's my last, best stab at a MIDI. Please note lyrics and comments from Dale Rose in the other thread (click). As Dale notes, songwriter Farris and others have reworked this song since it was first published. Parts of the MIDI won't sound familiar, but it's very close to what's printed in the hymnal. These echo songs are a bear to enter in Noteworthy.
-Joe Offer-

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Click to play

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Click to play (full harmony)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Who Will Sing For Me?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 11:46 PM

Joe!! Good job!!!!

~S~

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Now that we have the tune, I closed this thread in an attempt to avoid splitting the discussion. Please post here (click) or in one of the related threads listed in the crosslinks toward the top of this page.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-