Rev Mosie Lister

Gospel Music Singer and Songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Southern Gospel Music composers of all times. One of the original members of the Statesmen Quartet gospel group, he is best remembered for penning the songs "His Hand in Mine" (1953), "He Knows Just What I Need" (1955), "Then I Met the Master" (1955), "Where No One Stands Alone" (1955), "How Long Has It Been" (1956), and "Till the Storm Passes By" (1973). Born Thomas Mosie Lister, he was raised in a musical family and learned to play the piano, guitar, and violin. In 1939 he attended the Vaughan School of Music in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. During World War II he enlisted in the US Navy and after his discharge, he attended Middle Georgia State College in Macon, Georgia. He began his professional singing career with the Sunny South Quartet, followed by the Melody Masters. In 1948 he was asked to join the Statesmen Quartet as the lead singer and a few years later he left the group to focus on writing gospel music. In 1953 he formed the Mosie Lister Publishing Company that merged with the Lillenas Publishing Company in 1969. He later became an ordained Baptist minister. His music has been recorded by numerous gospel groups and solo artists, including the Blackwood Brothers, the Statesmen Quartet, The Cathedral Quarter, the Jordanaires, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, George Beverly Shea, Loretta Lynn, Porter Waggoner, and Bill Gaither. In 1976 he was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and into the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in 1997. He died at the age of 93. In 2004 he was honored on the Dove Brothers Quartet album "A Tribute To Mosie Lister."