Robert Lowry

Robert Lowry (March 12, 1826 – 25 November 1899) was an American preacher who became a popular writer of gospel music in the mid- to late-19th century. His best-known hymns include "Shall We Gather at the River", "Christ Arose!", "How Can I Keep from Singing?" and "Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus". Born in Philadelphia, Lowry studied at the University at Lewisburg and entered the Baptist ministry in 1854. During the following 45 years he held a number of pastorates in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Between 1869 and 1875 he combined his pastoral work with a professorship in rhetoric at his alma mater, and later served as the University's chancellor. From 1868 he acted as hymnals editor to Biglow and Main, the country's leading publisher of gospel and Sunday School music; under his supervision more than 20 hymnals were produced by the firm, many of wide and enduring popularity. Despite his protestations that preaching was his main vocation and that music was merely a sideline, it is as a hymnwriter that Lowry is chiefly remembered, ranking with such as W. H. Doane and Ira D. Sankey as one of the originators of a musical tradition that has lasted until the modern era of revival.

Birth and Death Data: Born March 12, 1826 (Philadelphia), Died November 25, 1899 (Plainfield)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1896 - 1949

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, lyricist

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Recordings (Results 76-100 of 100 records)

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Brunswick	[Br cat 5099-b]	10-in.	approximately mid-1917	Where is my wandering boy tonight	Inez Barbour ; Frank Croxton ; Harry McClaskey ; Marie Morrisey	Mixed vocal quartet, with organ	composer, lyricist
Brunswick	4694-4695	10-in.	approximately Nov. 1920	Christ arose	Collegiate Choir	Mixed vocal ensemble, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	11698-11700	10-in.	10/23/1923	Where is my boy tonight?	Marie Tiffany	Female vocal solo, with mixed vocal ensemble and orchestra	composer
Brunswick	11964-11967	10-in.	11/24/1923	I need Thee every hour	Theo Karle ; Marie Tiffany	Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	13960-13962	10-in.	10/15/1924	Where is my boy tonight?	John Charles Thomas	Baritone vocal solo and male vocal trio, with orchestra	composer, lyricist
Brunswick	E27575	10-in.	5/23/1928	I need Thee every hour	Marie Morrisey ; Frank Munn	Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E30054	10-in.	June 1929	Shall we gather at the river	Kanawha Singers	Male vocal quartet, with organ	lyricist, composer
Brunswick	E30168	10-in.	6/20/1929	Nothing but the blood of Jesus	Old Southern Sacred Singers	Male vocal quartet, with organ	lyricist, composer
Brunswick	E4981-E4982	10-in.	5/10/1927	Shall we gather at the river?	Dixie Sacred Singers	Male vocal trio, with instrumental trio	composer, lyricist
Brunswick	E15964-E15965	10-in.	6/15/1925	Shall we gather at the river	Homer A. Rodeheaver	Male vocal solo, with organ	lyricist, composer
Brunswick	E16023-E16024	10-in.	6/20/1925	Shall we gather at the river	Homer A. Rodeheaver	Male vocal solo, with organ	lyricist, composer
Brunswick	E24853-E24854	10-in.	10/21/1927	Where is my boy tonight?	John Charles Thomas	Male vocal solo and male vocal trio, with orchestra	composer, lyricist
Brunswick	E25618-E25619	10-in.	12/15/1927	Where is my boy, tonight?	Robert A. Gardner ; Lester McFarland	Male vocal duet, with guitar and mandolin	composer, lyricist
Brunswick	E16023-E16024; E16019	10-in.	6/19/1925	Shall we gather at the river	Homer A. Rodeheaver	Male vocal solo, with brass quartet and organ	lyricist, composer
Brunswick	689W-690W	10-in.	4/14/1925	Where is my boy tonight	Sidney J. Harkreader	Male vocal solo, with guitar	composer, lyricist
Edison	816	Not documented	10/16/1911	Where is my wandering boy	Irving Gillette	Tenor vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra	composer, lyricist
Edison	1056	10-in.	6/5/1912	Where is my wandering boy tonight?	Charles Hackett	Tenor vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with chorus	composer, lyricist
Edison	4772	10-in.	6/6/1916	Where is my wandering boy to-night	Walter Van Brunt	Tenor vocal solo and mixed vocal quartet, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Edison	5294	10-in.	1/16/1917	Shall we gather at the river	Metropolitan Quartet	Mixed vocal quartet, with orchestra	lyricist, composer
Edison	8049	10-in.	6/6/1921	I need Thee every hour	Metropolitan Quartet	Mixed vocal quartet, with orchestra	composer
Edison	10279	10-in.	3/26/1925	All the way my Saviour leads me	Amy Ellerman ; Olive Marshall	Vocal duet (soprano and contralto), with orchestra	composer
Edison	18213	10-in.	2/3/1928	Christ arose	Metropolitan Quartet	Mixed vocal ensemble, with orchestra	composer
Edison	18958	10-in.	12/21/1928	Where is my wand'ring boy to-night	Vernon Dalhart	Male vocal solo, with organ	composer, lyricist
Edison	N-112	10-in.	2/3/1928	Christ arose	Metropolitan Quartet	Mixed vocal ensemble, with orchestra	composer
Edison	N-649	10-in.	12/21/1928	Where is my wand'ring boy to-night	Vernon Dalhart	Male vocal solo, with organ	composer, lyricist

(Results 76-100 of 100 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Lowry, Robert," accessed November 24, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/103429.

Lowry, Robert. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 24, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/103429.

"Lowry, Robert." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 24 November 2024.