![]() I’m glad that it’s happened because it’s been a real stimulating kind of writing because you get to write all different kinds of music. So I grew up around words and always wanted to be a writer, but I never would have thought of being a lyricist. My mother was a writer and my father was a minister so he wrote sermons and things. “But I’d always written things, poetry and prose. “I never actually thought about being a lyricist when I was growing up,” Gloria continued. A lot of our earlier songs were what we call forgettable songs. “Probably nobody remembers the first songs they wrote together. ![]() “I don’t even know if we could remember the first song we wrote together,” Gloria said. Then as things started going along she started doing more of it and it just gradually evolved.” I could write so much, then I’d say ‘honey come finish this.’ And the earlier songs were like that, things I’d get started with a chorus or something, she’d finish. And the lyrics started coming along when I’d start writing and I was in a hole. “I didn’t marry her because she’s a lyricist,” Bill said. ![]() On the first day of his new job at the high school from which he’d graduated, he met a substitute French teacher also on her first day at work. Not bad for two school teachers from Alexandria, Indiana who met at a nearby high school and went on to become celebrated members of the music community, yet remain in the Indiana community where their careers began.īill confesses he had always had an interest in music, but had become an English teacher to earn a secure living. They perform concert tours throughout the country with singer Gary McSpadden as the Bill Gaither Trio and Bill and Gary also perform with Michael English and Jimmy Murray as the Gaither vocal Band. Gloria won the Dove Award for Song of the Year in 1985 for “Upon This Rock” and was Songwriter of the Year in 1986.Īdditionally, they’ve written six musicals that are performed in churches all over the country, and Gloria has authored six books. Bill has won the Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year eight times and was inducted into the GMA Hall of Fame in 1982. “Because He Lives” won Gospel Song of the Year in 1974, and in 1977 Bill was awarded the Gospel Music Association’s Award of Merit for his contributions to the industry. Their album, Alleluia! A Praise Gathering for Believer, was the first Christian album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. As members of the Bill Gaither Trio, they won Grammys in 19 for Besty Inspirational Performance. But when it comes to writing gospel music, Bill and Gloria Gaither’s partnership has spawned some of the genre’s most classic tunes.īetween them they’ve written nearly 500 songs and recorded more than 30 albums. The songwriting profession can boast many successful partnerships – Rodgers and Hammerstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Livingston and Evans, Bacharach and David.
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