Thanks for posting, Levi!

It looks like there are many more covers on YouTube since the last time this thread was posted.

Please pass along our thanks and best wishes to your dad. His hymn has clearly blessed so many, including the many who visit this page.

Here's a link to Crossroads Baptist ...

Any time! :) If you ever have any other 'hidden gems' that have entered the public domain which you'd like to share with everyone, feel free to email them over. I may be a little slow on the take, but I can definitely put them up for people to enjoy and maybe help preserve a little history.

Thanks ...

Thank you SO much for taking the time to digitize this and send it to me, tab2010 (and sorry for being a little slow to check my email!)

For everyone, here's tab2010's file of the rare recording from Pastor Donald Skelton and Jerry McKinney:

https://namethathymn.com/My%20Heavenly%20Father ...

It's not "free", but I use my Amazon Prime subscription a lot for offline downloads. They only give you a limited number of choices before they try to upsell you to their premium product, but more often than not I find a decent selection, especially if you're looking for hymns.

There's another ...

Hi tab2010,

If you can e-mail me a copy at hymns [at] namethathymn.com I can upload it to this thread for people to listen to. Thanks so much!

Steve

I was pleasantly surprised to hear that too. Here were the hymns that were being played prior to Melania Trump entering the Capitol Rotunda.

- For the Beauty of the Earth

- Great is Thy Faithfulness

- Andante Grazioso from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 11 in A minor, K331

- O America - This ...

Words by: Isaac Watts

Music by: Lowell Mason

Year written: 1719 (words), 1836 (music)

The story:

Isaac Watts was a prolific English hymn writer who wrote over 750 hymns, including When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and O God, our Help in Ages Past. He wrote this poem based on Psalm 98. It was ...

Original title in German: Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

Words by: Joseph Mohr

Music by: Franz Xaver Gruber

Year written: 1818

The story:

Mohr, a young Austraian priest, had written the poem back in 1816. The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf ...

Lots of sites have lists of the most popular traditional Christmas hymns, but here are the ones that people search for the most on Google (and this site).

Silent Night lyrics - 60,500
Joy to the World lyrics - 40,500
Mary Did You Know lyrics - 33,100
O Holy Night lyrics - 27,100
Ave Maria lyrics ...

Hi Jlmiller,

Thanks so much for your question—and sorry for taking over a month to get back to you!

As tab2010 mentioned, Hymnary is great. But for me, my two go-to sources are Archive.org and Google Books.

Here's an example of a search I do on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/search?query ...