Homer Alvan Rodeheaver (1880–1955)

This was my grandmother songbook! I love the hymns in it. It is very precious to me! In addition, to her handwritten name on the inside flyleaf, it also is a souvenir edition. It has a few pictures of the compilers including Rodeheaver and the cover simulates a tree surface. The copyright and preface page is actually several pages in so it's a little confusing. But it looks like it was meant for those "sawdust trails" meaning the first songs led up to the theme song for evangelistic show more meetings, "If your heart keeps right". show less

This number 4 collection have new songs added for the average low-voice singer, as well as a goodly number of the old-time favorites that are not easily found.

Shortly after Billy Sunday's death in 1935, Rodeheaver, his music man, wrote a memoir of his relationship with the evangelist Rodeheaver talks about Sunday's progress from his beginnings as an outfielder with the Phillies, through his apprenticeship with Wilbur Chapman's tent circuit, to his own evangelistic career in small towns.

This little book has been prepared as a practical contribution to the important subject of Song Leadership. The two divisions present both the technique and the human side of song leadership.