Beyond The Sunset - acapella with lyrics
Exclusively Bicolandia sunsets.
Destin is known to have some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world. But have you ever wondered what’s beyond the last colors and rays of the day as it gives way to night? Beyond that sunset?
Lyricist Virgil Brock and his composer wife, Blanche, tried to answer this question in 1936 in their song, “Beyond the Sunset.”
Virgil was born in 1887 in a rural community in Ohio to devoted Quaker parents. At 16, he accepted Christ personally during a church revival meeting, felt the call for Christian service and was ordained a minister of the Christian church at age 19.
In 1914, while serving in Greens Fork, Indiana, Virgil met and married a talented singer and pianist, Blanche Kerr. She was born in 1888 in Greens Fork, the daughter of Dr. James Kerr, and attended the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music and the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. They became a team, serving together in the Christian church and writing more than 500 gospel songs before her death in 1958. Virgil died in 1978 at the age of 91. A large monument at Warsaw-Winona Lake cemetery, with the words and music of “Beyond the Sunset” engraved in stone, stands as a tribute to the couple.
Their most famous song, “Beyond the Sunset” has sold thousands of records and been recorded by performers such as Hank Williams Sr., Pat Boone, Red Foley, George Younce and Slim Whitman. Some of their other songs include “He’s a Wonderful Savior to Me,” “Resting in His Love” and “Let God Have His Way.”
Although Virgil didn’t know music theory and needed Blanche to write the melodies for their songs, he was awarded an honorary degree of sacred music from Trinity College in Dunedin, Florida, in recognition of his 50 years of gospel songwriting. https://www.thedestinlog.com/story/li...
Acapella version by Florida College Chorus 1993-1995 (The Best Collection)
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