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[The angels sang one starry night]
Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55556 71234 32232 Used With Text: Hark! hark! hark! Good news for you and me
[The angels sang one starry night]
Hark! hark! hark! Good news for you and me
Author: Miss Eliza E. Hewitt Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: The angels sang one starry night Lyrics: 1 The angels sang one starry night,
Good news for you, good news for me;
They filled the sky with glory, bright,
Good news for you and me.
Refrain:
Hark! hark! hark!
Good news for you and me;
For Jesus came that starry night,
Good news for you and me.
2 Glad music fell from harps of gold,
Good news for you, good news for me;
The sweetest story ever told,
Good news for you and me. [Refrain]
3 He loves us more than we can say,
Good news for you, good news for me;
He lives for us this Christmas day,
Good news for you and me. [Refrain] Topics: Angels; Christmas; Primary Department Used With Tune: [The angels sang one starry night]
Hark! hark! hark! Good news for you and me
The Angels Sang One Starry Night
Author: Eliza Edmunds Hewitt Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8320 Refrain First Line: Hark! hark! hark! Lyrics: 1 The angels sang one starry night,
Good news for you, good news for me;
They filled the sky with glory bright,
Good news for you and me.
Refrain:
Hark! hark! hark!
Good news for you and me;
For Jesus came that starry night,
Good news for you and me.
2 Glad music fell from harps of gold,
Good news for you, good news for me;
The sweetest story ever told,
Good news for you and me. [Refrain]
3 He loves us more than we can say,
Good news for you, good news for me;
He lives for us this Christmas day,
Good news for you and me. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [The angels sang one starry night]
The Angels Sang One Starry Night
The Angels Sang One Starry Night
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Forms and Hymns for Christmas #17 (1906) Refrain First Line: Hark! hark! hark! Good news for you and me Languages: English Tune Title: [The angels sang one starry night]
The Angels Sang One Starry Night
The Angels Sang One Starry Night
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Hymnal: Gems of Christmas Song #55 (1910) Refrain First Line: Hark! hark! hark! Languages: English Tune Title: [The angels sang one starry night]
The Angels Sang One Starry Night
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Person Name: Miss Eliza E. Hewitt Author of "Hark! hark! hark! Good news for you and me" in The Sunday School Hymnal Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Composer of "[The angels sang one starry night]" in The Sunday School Hymnal James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
