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Harry Dixon Loes. Harry Dixon Loes (October 20, 1892 – February 9, 1965) was an American composer and teacher, best known for his arrangement of the gospel song "This Little Light of Mine". [1] [2] Loes was a prolific composer and hymn writer, hymnal editor, and music professor, [1] as well as musical director in several churches and an ...
This Little Light of Mine. " This Little Light of Mine " is an African-American song from the 1920s. It was often reported to be written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes, but he never claimed credit for the original version of the song, and researchers at the Moody Bible Institute, where Loes worked, said they have found no ...
Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, [3] and became known as "the Voice of Selma". [4] She was jailed as a teenager in 1963 for her participation in a Selma protest and was also involved in Bloody Sunday in 1965. [5] Her new lyrics for "This Little Light of Mine" and other songs became ...
Zilphia Horton (April 14, 1910 – April 11, 1956) was an American musician, community organizer, educator, Civil Rights activist, and folklorist.She is best known for her work with her husband Myles Horton at the Highlander Folk School where she is generally credited with turning such songs as "We Shall Overcome", "We Shall Not Be Moved," and "This Little Light of Mine" from hymns into ...
Poem. Written in ballad form, the poem tells of an artist ruined by love; having lost his beloved Madeline to another man, he has turned to drink. Entering a bar, the artist tells his story to the bartender and to the assembled crowd. He then offers to sketch Madeline's face on the floor of the bar but falls dead in the middle of his work.
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This Little Girl of Mine. " This Little Girl of Mine " is a rhythm and blues single written and released as a single by Ray Charles in 1955 on the Atlantic label. "This Little Girl of Mine" played off "This Little Light of Mine", [1] much like the previous "I Got a Woman" and the later "Hallelujah I Love Her So" played off other classic gospel ...
Dazzle may refer to: Glare (vision), difficulty seeing in the presence of bright light. Dazzle (manga), a Japanese manga series by Minari Endoh. "Dazzle" (song), a song by Siouxsie & the Banshees. Dazzle camouflage, a paint scheme used on ships during World War I. Dazzle, an American disco act featuring Leroy Burgess.