STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - THE CHUCK WAGON GANG - PRAYERS IN SONG

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Good Thursday morning record enthusiasts and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again . Today we remember  songwriter, singer, arranger, reverend, and publisher, Mosie Lister, on what would have been hos 101st Birthday. He was born in Cochran, Georgia in 1921 and passed away  February 12, 2015, age 93. Mosie got his start in the Sunny South Quartet, before leaving that group with Lakeland native, Jim "Big Chief" Wetherington. They were then recruited by Hovie Lister (no relation - can you believe that ?!), to join The Statesman Quartet, but Mosie quickly tired of the touring life and and in 1953 he retired from it, and formed the Mosie Lister Publishing Company. He was a prolific writer and has published over 700 songs and they have been covered by nearly every Southern Gospel group out there, including the Statesmen Quartet, Cathedral Quartet, the Blackwoods, the Blue Ridge Quartet, the Jordanaires, and the LeFevres. as well as artists like George Beverly Shea, Porter Wagoner, Bill Gaither, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, and Elvis Presley. Today we are featuring this 1959 Columbia release, Prayers In Song by The Chuck Wagon Gang. It has three of Lister's songs ;  "Where No One Stands Alone", " Hard Trials Will Soon Be Over", and  "I'm Depending On Jesus". Our copy doesn't have it's original jacket. I found this record hiding in a Best of the Chuck Wagon Gang cover. 

A1

I Know I'll Feel At Home
Written-By – Clanton

A2

Beautiful
Written-By – Warren, Winsett

A3

Where No One Stands Alone
Written-By – Lister

A4

I Can Call Jesus Anytime

A5

I Know I'm Saved
Written-By – A. Taylor

A6

Justice Called And Mercy Answered
Written-By – Walker

B1

Hard Trials Will Soon Be Over
Written-By – Lister

B2

Heaven Will Surely Be Worth It All
Written-By – Jones, Cooper

B3

I'm Rejoicing
Written-By – T. Bottoms

B4

I Miss A Friend Like You
Written By – Yarbrough

B5

I'm Depending On Jesus
Written-By – Lister

B6 This World Is Not My Home
Arranged By – Brumley

Guitar – Hank Garland

Vocals – Anna Carter, Howard Wellborn, Ronald Crittenden, Rose Carter