2010 Brumley MusicFest™
Honors and Recognition
The Brumley Family is Truly Blessed!
The quality of grandpa’s (Albert E. Brumley) songs and the integrity of dad’s (Robert ‘Bob’ Brumley) businesses and management-style have helped the Brumley name to mean quality and instill trust to those around.
Concert-goers can trust that the Brumley Family will put on a good, quality show with the best performers available. The cities like Bentonville/Rogers, AR and Lebanon, MO that host a Brumley event can trust that fans have made it a yearly tradition and come all over the country (the world even) for family reunions and to enjoy clean, uplifting entertainment. The artists that perform at the concerts or record a Brumley song are confident that they will be treated right every time. Shoppers can trust that the books and videos they buy will be full of beautiful, meaningful works.
Betsy Brumley Bernier and Elaine Brumley Johnson holding the family’s platinum album for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” which included the song “I’ll Fly Away”
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A Few Albert Brumley and “I’ll Fly Away” Facts
•Written over 800 songs in his 50+ career
•First song, “I Can Hear Them Singing Over There” Published 1927
•“I’ll Fly Away”, his most famous song published Hartford Music Company, Hartford, AR 1932
•Pioneered music by starting his own music publishing company, Albert E Brumley & sons, 1942
•Purchased Hartford Music Company, 1948
•Founder, Gospel Music Association, Memphis, TN 1964
•Country Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame 1970
•Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame 1970
•Gospel Music Hall of Fame 1972
•Who’s Who in the World 1978
•Honored at White House by President Jimmy Carter 1978
•Ozark Hall of Fame 1986
•SESAC Hall of Fame 1986
•Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame 1994
•Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame 1997
•Named by Smithsonian as “Most Influential Songwriter Before WWII “
•Named 1 of only 5 persons in US who directly affected 20th century music
•Brumley songs have been printed in over 25 million books, songs sheets and in every language on the planet
•“I’ll Fly Away” is the most recorded Gospel song in history
•Artists who have recorded his songs: Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, Allison Krauss, Bob Dylan, Kayne West, Dixie Chicks, Alan Jackson, Charlie Daniels, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Jones, The Boston Pops Orchestra, plus many, many more.
•Academy Awards: 1997 “The Apostle”, 2000 “O, Brother Where Art Thou”
•Latest Movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons” with Brad Pitt
•Numerous Grammy and Dove Awards
•Last nominated for Grammy Award 2008
