T.B. Mosley

[Robert Vaughn]

T.B. Mosley has at least two songs in J.L. White's 1911 Sacred Harp -- 493 Orphan Girl and 532 Resurrection.

Does anyone know if this is Thomas Benjamin Mosley (1872-1927) of Albertville, Alabama? This T.B. Mosley was a significant seven-shape teacher in the Sand Mountain area.

From Alabama Music Hall of Fame:
T. B. MOSLEY - Boaz, Alabama

He was the "back-bone" of gospel music on Sand Mountain.
In addition to teaching, Mosley was actively involved in writing and publishing gospel music.
He was employed by the publishing firm established by his teacher - the A.J. Showalter Company - as an associate editor, director, and finally editor-in-chief of the Music Department.
His singing schools drew students from all over the Southeast including J.R. "Pap" Baxter, Vernie O. Fossett, John L. Shrader, Eugene Horton Whitt and Troy Daniel
http://www.alamhof.org/mmusachv.html

Thanks.
Robert Vaughn
Mount Enterprise, TX
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Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.

[John Garst]

This is not evidence, but if I were a bettor, I would bet money on it.

We need to find one of Mosley's SH pieces published in one of his
gospel songbooks.

I think I have seen that.

Unfortunately, some of the things I think I've seen may not be right.

John

>T.B. Mosley has at least two songs in J.L. White's 1911 Sacred Harp
>-- 493 Orphan Girl and 532 Resurrection.
>
>Does anyone know if this is Thomas Benjamin Mosley (1872-1927) of
>Albertville, Alabama? This T.B. Mosley was a significant seven-shape
>teacher in the Sand Mountain area.
>
>From Alabama Music Hall of Fame:
>T. B. MOSLEY - Boaz, Alabama
>
> He was the "back-bone" of gospel music on Sand Mountain.
> In addition to teaching, Mosley was actively involved in writing
>and publishing gospel music.
> He was employed by the publishing firm established by his
>teacher - the A.J. Showalter Company - as an associate editor,
>director, and finally editor-in-chief of the Music Department.
> His singing schools drew students from all over the Southeast
>including J.R. "Pap" Baxter, Vernie O. Fossett, John L. Shrader,
>Eugene Horton Whitt and Troy Daniel
>http://www.alamhof.org/mmusachv.html
>
>Thanks.
>Robert Vaughn

--
john garst ga...@chem.uga.edu

[R. L. Vaughn]

Thanks, John. I've found enough to feel fairly confident that this is
the same person. For example, 532 in JL White's 4th edition Sacred
Harp is described this way:
"The work of Mosley’s most often included in present-day hymnbooks is
really not so much a hymn for congregational worship but a choral-type
arrangement simply entitled 'Resurrection,' written in 1911 with words
by Homer F. Morris."
http://homeschoolblogger.com/hymnstudies/677112/

This snippet view from Songs of Faith and Praise shows this song by
Mosley written in 1911
http://books.google.com/books?id=xryOlhPq7eQC&q=t+b+mosley#v=snippet&q=t%20b%20mosley&f=false

Interesting thing there is if "Resurrection" was written in 1911, it
makes me wonder whether he submitted to White for the Sacred Harp, or
if were published in one of Mosley's 7-shape books first.

Another thing that I found interesting was that Mosley did a tune for
"The Orphan Girl" ballad. Colonel Gibson Keith, also from Sand
Mountain, did one as well. This must have been a popular ballad on
Sand Mountain.

Sincerely,
Robert V.
Mt. E., TX