Singer, writer, publisher, and gospel music pioneer. Stamps founded the V.O. Stamps Music Company in 1924 in Jacksonville, Texas and soon published "Harbor Bells", his first songbook. Two years later, he merged the company with J. R. Baxter, Jr. to form the Stamps-Baxter Music Company, based in Dallas, Texas. He sang bass with the Stamps Quartet. He arranged the music of "When the Saints Go Marching In" in 1937. Mr. Stamps is a member of the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
Singer, writer, publisher, and gospel music pioneer. Stamps founded the V.O. Stamps Music Company in 1924 in Jacksonville, Texas and soon published "Harbor Bells", his first songbook. Two years later, he merged the company with J. R. Baxter, Jr. to form the Stamps-Baxter Music Company, based in Dallas, Texas. He sang bass with the Stamps Quartet. He arranged the music of "When the Saints Go Marching In" in 1937. Mr. Stamps is a member of the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
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The man with a million friends whose theme was "Give the world a smile" and whose motto was
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