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Albert Edward Brumley (October 29, 1905 - November 15, 1977)

Biography

Albert E. Brumley was born near Spiro, Oklahoma and grew up on a cotton farm.

Before his song writing career, he attended the old Hartford Musical Institute at Hartford, Arkansas and sang with the Hartford Quartet.

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Later he taught singing schools in various parts of the Ozarks. He met his wife-to-be, Goldie Edith Schell at one of these schools in Powell, Missouri. They were married in 1931 and continued to live at Powell, where they raised their six children: Bill, Al Jr., Bob, Tom, Jack and Betty.

It was in 1929 that Brumley actually composed I'll Fly Away.

He recalled that he was picking cotton and singing the popular song, If I Had The Wings Of An Angel.

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Suddenly, he thought about flying away. Quote, "actually, I was dreaming of flying away from that cotton field when I wrote I'll Fly Away. That thought, of course, like the thoughts that underlay all his many songs, was based upon his own deep spiritual