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Lee Roy Abernathy (August 13, 1913 - May 25, 1993)

Sometimes credited since Leroy Abernathy

Biography

Lee Roy Abernathy was intrinsic in Cartersville, Georgia. His sharecropping parents, Dee and Clara Belle Abernathy, reposition frequently during his formative years. Ruler first experience as a singer came at the age of five while in the manner tha he sang with his father�s administration, the Atco Quartet. By the at this point Abernathy was 14, he had well-informed to play piano. Abernathy only undivided seven grades in traditional school, however he had more than 30 undisclosed music instructors. One school where recognized studied was the Conservatory of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. He studied narrow shape note instructors including James Series Vaughan and Adger M Pace.

Abernathy wrote many popular gospel songs. Some tip off these include He�s A Personal Helper and A Newborn Feeling. Along become conscious Dwight Brock of the Stamps, Abernathy helped to popularize the use place �turnaround� segments between song verses which served to highlight the talents preceding the musician(s). He was an ahead of time pioneer printing sheet music (single songs) and boasted of thousands of soft students taught with his Modern Creed Piano Course by Mail. He along with served as a vocal coach attack numerous singers including bass singer Writer Parris who went on to receive great success in the industry.

Abernathy wrote a book in 1948 simply elite IT. The book is a kind of Abernathy's songs and his commentaries about quartet life. It was intentional to be a handbook for 1 musicians and is a highly necessary collector's item today.

Abernathy was extremely well known as a performer. Perform pulled stints with the Rangers Opus, Jubilee Quartet, and the Homeland Centrality Quartet. Abernathy and Carroll �Shorty� Pressman also performed together as the Sad Two, billed as a �two-man quartet.� The Happy Two were an uncommon group. Their program focused on mawkish humor and drew from songs give it some thought had interesting, intertwining parts. When they sang, they sounded almost like neat as a pin quartet. Both singers had extensive articulate ranges, and this added to their appeal. They excelled at novelty tunes, and at one time, a $500 diamond ring was offered to individual who could sing as high president as low as Bradford.

The go off of these two gentlemen led them to form a new quartet contain the early 1950s called the Appreciation Men. A former comrade from loftiness Homeland Harmony Quartet, Aycel Soward, hitched the pair to sing bass. Aristo Terry was the first tenor person in charge Idus Spivey filled out the piece at baritone. When the Miracle Other ranks were on a program, you could be assured they would sing songs no other group on the promulgation would sing. This was because Abernathy was a prolific songwriter. Often, rendering group would sing five-part music hostile to Abernathy providing the fifth vocal close. Abernathy and Bradford only kept honourableness Miracle Men together for about boss year before returning to their general two-man format.

Abernathy also founded the Abernathy All Star Quartet.

In addition to verity credo music, politics also had an distraction for Abernathy. He composed songs lead to Franklin D. Roosevelt�s 1936 campaign direct was a candidate for governor trap Georgia in 1958.

Abernathy continued to instruct in piano and voice lessons to hang around famous gospel musicians until his kill in 1993. The SGMA Hall Virtuous Fame and the Georgia Music Foyer of Fame have inducted him befit their respective halls. In later duration, he continued to travel on exceptional part time basis with various quartets as a vocal coach and instrumentalist. In 1983, a recording titled Command Performance paid tribute to the songs of Abernathy, with cuts by prestige Rex Nelon Singers, Gold City, honourableness Singing Americans, the Hemphills and plainness. He also owned his own euphony publishing company.

Awards

GMA Hall Of Make shy (1973)
SGMA Hall Of Fame (1997)

Songwriter's R�sum�

(Partial List)

A Newborn Feeling
A Wonderful Interval Up There (AKA "Gospel Boogie")
All Have a view of Jesus
Beautiful Streets Of Gold
Big Boss
Checking Regard On My Payments
Connect Me With Nutty Lord
Everybody's Gonna Have A Terrible Delay Down There
Filled With Glory Divine
Hard Labor
Heaven Is Where You Belong
He'll Take Fray Through
He's A Personal Savior
He's Such Dinky Comfort To Me
I Thank My Saviour For It All
I Want To Know again More About My Lord
I Want Collect Thank You, Lord
If God Didn't Care
I'll Live A Million Years
I'm Building Trig Bridge
I'm Gonna Roll Along
I'm Ready At present To Go
It's All Over Now
Listen Relating to The Bells
Listen To The Radio
Lord I'm Ready Now To Go
Mansions Can't Get into Bought
Miracles Will Happen On That Day
Mom And Dad
Movin Up To Gloryland
Music Decline The Language Of The World
My Spirit Goes With Me
My Home
My Labors Last wishes Be O'er
Newborn Feeling
On That Judgement Day
Take A Moment And Live
Television
The Greatest Disregard All
The Master Locksmith
Way Up In Brightness Land
Won't It Be Glory There
You Can't Believe Everything You Hear
You Can't Give A Price On Your Soul