SWEET SWEET SPIRIT

Composer: Doris Akers

Doris Mae Akers USA 1923-1995. Born at Brookfield, MO, one of nine siblings, her (inter-racial) parents divorced when she was age three. She then lived with her mother, who remarried when she was age six. They lived in Kirksville, MO. Some of her brothers lived with her father after the divorce. The family attended the Bethel AME Church in Kirksville, where she learned to play piano by ear at age six. She wrote her first song at age 10. In the 1930s she formed a singing gospel group with siblings, Edward, Marian, and Donald, who went by the name ‘Dot and the Swingsters’. Early in her career (1938) she moved to Los Angeles, CA. There she became known for her work with the ‘Sky Pilot Choir’, an integrated group that made recordings… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: SWEET SWEET SPIRIT
Composer: Doris Akers (1962)
Meter: 9.11.9.11 with refrain
Incipit: 34516 51233 54432
Key: G Major
Copyright: © 1962, renewed 1990 Manna Music

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • A Quiet Time in the Garden of Prayer: Organ Meditations by Susan Caudill
    Composer/Editor Susan Caudill
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1999) pp. 35
  • Encore: 50 of Fred Bock's Greatest Gospel Arrangements for Organ
    Composer/Editor Fred Bock
    Published By: Fred Bock Music Company (1984) pp. 76
  • Precious Memories: Best Loved Gospel Songs Arranged for all Organs
    Composer/Editor Harold H. DeCou
    Published By: Fred Bock Music Company (1983) pp. 24
  • Great Gospel Songs: 21 Top Favorites Featuring the Distinctive Organ Stylings of Robert J. Hughes
    Composer/Editor Robert J. Hughes
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1977) pp. 17
  • Alleluia! Organ Arrangements
    Composer/Editor Paul Mickelson
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1974) pp. 7
  • Music for Organ: With a Little Help from My Friends
    Composer/Editors Doris Akers; Fred Bock
    Published By: Manna Music, Inc. (1974) pp. 2

Piano Solo

  • Solos for the Sanctuary Gospel: 8 Piano Solos for the Church Pianist
    Composer/Editor Glenda Austin
    Published By: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (2014) pp. 10
  • More Sunday Solos for Piano: Preludes, Offertories & Postludes
    Published By: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (2009) pp. 36
  • Big Silver Book of Wedding Piano Solos
    Composer/Editors Ken Barker; Carol McMillen Tornquist; Bruce Greer
    Published By: Word Music Group, LLC (2004) pp. 114
  • Gospel's Finest
    Composer/Editor Anonymous
    Published By: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (2004) pp. 103
  • Big Purple Book of Praise & Worship Piano Solos
    Composer/Editors Ken Barker; Carol McMillen Tornquist; Don Wyrtzen
    Published By: Word Music Group, LLC (2001) pp. 76
  • Dino - Quiet Time: Hymns for Solo Piano
    Composer/Editor Dino Kartsonakis
    Published By: Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc. (1996) pp. 3
  • Still Thankful: Arrangements for Piano Ministry
    Composer/Editor Marilynn Joy Ham
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1993) pp. 17
  • Dino - All Creation Sings
    Composer/Editor Dino Kartsonakis
    Published By: The Benson Company, Inc. (1991) pp. 7
  • To Know Your Heart: Bruce Greer
    Composer/Editor Bruce Greer
    Published By: Word Music Group, LLC (1989) pp. 135
  • Bock's Best Volume I: 50 Outstanding Piano Arrangements of Hymns and Gospel Songs
    Composer/Editor Fred Bock
    Published By: Fred Bock Music Company (1980) pp. 15

Piano Solo: Optional C Instrument Solo

  • Weddings & Worship: Contemporary Christian Songs for Solo Piano
    Composer/Editor Carol Tornquist
    Published By: Benson Music Group, Inc. (1993) pp. 27

Piano and Organ Duet

Voices: Vocal Solo

  • 100 Low Voice Favorites Volume II: Gospel's Greatest
    Composer/Editor Jim Loucks
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 134

Instances

Instances (1 - 41 of 41)

African American Heritage Hymnal #326

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #196

Baptist Hymnal 1991 #243

Baptist Hymnal 2008 #328

Cáliz de Bendiciones #186

Celebrating Grace Hymnal #241

Chalice Hymnal #261

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #255

CPWI Hymnal #296

El Himnario #56

El Himnario Presbiteriano #56

Text InfoAudio

Glory to God #408

Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día #197

Hymns for a Pilgrim People #230

Hymns of Faith #78

Hymns of Promise #67

Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #327

Lift Every Voice and Sing II #120

Mil Voces para Celebrar #186

One in Faith #655

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #232

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #882

Audio

Praise! Our Songs and Hymns #89

Santo, Santo, Santo #410

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #262

Sing Joyfully #153

The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal #218

The Celebration Hymnal #391

The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration #252

The New Century Hymnal #293

The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) #127

The Presbyterian Hymnal #398

Audio

The United Methodist Hymnal #334

The Worshiping Church #291

This Far By Faith #102

Total Praise #317

Wonder, Love, and Praise #752

Worship and Rejoice #134

Worship His Majesty #291

Yes, Lord! #192

찬송과 예배 = Chansong gwa yebae = Come, Let Us Worship #220

Include 7 pre-1979 instances
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