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[Would you have the joybells chiming]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 51233 33333 45222 Used With Text: Would You Have the Joybells?

Would you have the joybells chiming clear and strong

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Would you have the joybells chiming Used With Tune: [Would you have the joybells chiming]

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: Joy and Praise #100 (1908) First Line: Would you have the joybells chiming Refrain First Line: Would you have the joybells chiming clear and strong Languages: English Tune Title: [Would you have the joybells chiming]

Would you have the joybells chiming clear and strong

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: A Hymnal for Joyous Youth #133 (1927) First Line: Would you have the joybells chiming Languages: English Tune Title: [Would you have the joybells chiming]

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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Author of "Would You Have the Joybells?" in Joy and Praise Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Would you have the joybells chiming]" in Joy and Praise 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