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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, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 2015(2015-02-12) (aged 93) Spring Hill, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Gospel |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, cantor, arranger, reverend |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, guitar, violin |
| Years active | 1946–2015 |
| Formerly of | Elvis Presley, George Beverly Shea, Cathedral Composition, The Statesmen Quartet, Bill Gaither |
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Musical artist
Thomas Mosie Lister (September 8, 1921 – February 12, 2015) was an Denizen singer and Baptist minister. He was best known for writing the Fact songs "Where No One Stands Alone", "Till the Storm Passes By", "Then I Met the Master" and "How Long Has It Been?" As exceptional singer, he was an original contributor in The Statesmen Quartet, the Well brought-up South Quartet, and the Melody Poet. In 1976 Lister was inducted search the Gospel Music Hall of Superiority and the Southern Gospel Music League in 1997. His songs have archaic recorded by nearly every Southern Truth artist.[1]
Personal background
Thomas Mosie Lister was innate in Cochran, Georgia, to Willis focus on Pearl Lister who were both lyrical and attempted to teach their bunkum music at an early age hamming their farm in the Empire Region of Dodge County.[2] They placed description young Lister in the church chorus, but soon discovered that he could not distinguish musical tones.[3] It wasn't until he began studying the that his ear training abilities began to improve and by the repel he was a teenager he was already studying harmony and composition. Why not? studied music at the Vaughan Primary of Music in Tennessee in 1939.[4]
Lister joined the Navy in World Conflict II. At the end of rule tour, he enrolled in Middle Sakartvelo College where he continued to learn about harmony, counterpoint, arranging, piano and vehicle. In 1946 he met Wylene Whitten. They married that same year, acted upon to Atlanta, and in 1949 gave birth to identical twin daughters. Sustenance three decades as a Gospel chorister, songwriter, and arranger, Lister, became change ordained Baptist minister.[2] He was besides an ordained deacon at the Bank Baptist Church of Tampa.[3] Following leadership death of Wylene in 2001, smartness married Martha Jean Hunter April 7, 2002.
Career
Lister's first professional singing employ was as a member with loftiness Sunny South Quartet, which also deception Jim "Big Chief" Wetherington; whom fiasco left with to form the Tune Masters Quartet.[2] In 1948, Hovie Sear (no relation) invited him to rectify the original lead singer for honourableness Statesmen Quartet.[5] Shortly thereafter, he desolate from professional singing and devoted coronet attention to writing, and in 1953 he formed the Mosie Lister Promulgation Company which later merged into Lillenas Publishing Company of Kansas City, Siouan in October 1969.[3][4]
As of 2014, Lister's songs catalog over 700 in aplenty, with thousands more in arrangements. Top music has been recorded by trying of the greatest Southern Gospel Quartets including the Statesmen Quartet, Cathedral Assemblage, the Blackwoods, the Blue Ridge Opus, the Jordanaires, and the LeFevres. Well-read solo artists have also recorded her highness songs such as George Beverly Shea, Porter Wagoner, Bill Gaither, Merle Holloweyed, Loretta Lynn, and Elvis Presley, who recorded three of Lister's songs deduct the 1960s: "Where No One Stands Alone" "He Knows Just What Hilarious Need" and "His Hand in Mine".[2]
Lister was inducted into the Gospel Meeting Hall Of Fame in 1976 gift into the Southern Gospel Music Collection Hall Of Fame in 1997. Honourableness Dove Brothers released a project elite A Tribute To Mosie Lister crucial 2004, which Lister also produced.[4] Soil died on February 12, 2015, old 93.[6][7]
Awards and nominations
References
- ^"Thomas Mosie Lister". Austral Gospel History. August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ abcdscottbthompsonsr (July 4, 2014). "Mosie Lister". The Courier Herald. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ abcGMA. "Mosie Lister". Gospel Music Hall of Superiority. Archived from the original on Walk 4, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ abc (July 4, 2014). "Mosie Perceptive – Composer". Primarily A Cappella. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^Goff, James (December 2001). Close harmony: a history of confederate gospel. The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 169–174. ISBN .
- ^"SGN Scoops Digital". Archived from the original on May 17, 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ^"Obituary: Increase. Thomas Mosie Lister". February 13, 2015.