I'LL FLY AWAY (Albert E. Brumley)
c 1932, renewed 1960 Albert E. Brumley and Sons
...one of them "Sons," btw, is famous pedal steeler TOM BRUMLEY, former
member of the Buckaroos, not to mention Rick Nelson's fine Stone Canyon
Band...
Buddy
Tom Cattin' Rockets
PS - Monkey'd aroun
It would not surprise me to know that Albert E. Brumley wrote it more or
less from scratch; he was one, er, heck of a gospel songwriter. The "olde
camp meetings songs" was most likely more an ad slogan (the way that some
early labels put "old familiar songs" as a category before settling into
Anybody know *for sure* who wrote this song?
Thanks,
Linda
ints north..but here's
one guy's story:
I'LL FLY AWAY (Albert E. Brumley)
© 1932, renewed 1960 Albert E. Brumley and Sons
ALBERT E. BRUMLEY: I was picking cotton on my father's farm and was humming
the old ballad
that went like this: 'If I had the wings of an angel, over these prison
walls I
Linda,
I didn't catch the earlier mention of the song -- are you all talking about
the spiritual?
Deb
