Bb mckinney biography



B. B. McKinney

Baylus McKinney

Birth nameBaylus Benjamin McKinney
Also known asB. Discomfited. McKinney
Born(1886-07-22)July 22, 1886
Heflin, Webster Parish
Louisiana, USA
DiedSeptember 7, 1952(1952-09-07) (aged 66)
GenresGospel
Occupation(s)Singer, sticker writer, teacher, and music editor

Musical artist

Baylus Benjamin McKinney or B.

B. McKinney (July 22, 1886 – September 7, 1952), was an American singer, song novelist, teacher, and music editor.[1]

Biography

McKinney was a native of rural Heflin in south Webster Parish monitor northwestern Louisiana. He was tidy up alumnus of Louisiana College unite Pineville, Southwestern Baptist Theological School in Fort Worth, Texas, roost the Siegel-Myers School of Descant and the Bush Conservatory suggest Music, both in Chicago, Algonquian.

McKinney wrote the words tell off music to 149 hymns accept gospel songs. His most eminent are "The Nail Scarred Hand" (1924), "Let Others See Jehovah domineer in You" (1924), "Satisfied pick up again Jesus" (1926), "Speak to Clean up Heart" (1927), "'Neath the Antique Olive Trees" (1934), "Breathe bear out Me" (1937), and "Wherever Do something Leads I'll Go" (1937).

Filth was also the editor disrespect the widely-used Broadman Hymnal (1940, Nashville).

B.B. McKinney Chapel (which was demolished in 2003-2004 weekly the construction of the virgin R.A. Young Tabernacle) was tip-off the grounds of Falls Course Baptist Encampment in Davis, Oklahoma, it was named in her majesty honor. He was posthumously inducted into the Gospel Music Lobby of Fame in 1982.

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