Philip P. Bliss
Biography
Philip Paul Bliss (July 9, 1838 – December 29, 1876) was an American composer of gospel songs, baritone-bass singer, and song leader who collaborated with Daniel W. Whittle in evangelistic ministry; he was also a good friend of Dwight L. Moody. Some of his better-known songs are "Hold the Fort" (1870), "Almost Persuaded" (1871); "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" (1871); "Hallelujah, What a Saviour!" (1875); "Wonderful Words of Life" (1875), and "I Will Sing of My Redeemer" (1876); he also wrote the melody for Horatio Spafford's "It Is Well with My Soul" (1876). With a surname derived from a Middle English word meaning "joy" or "gladness", Bliss lived up to his name. Those who knew him well, like George F. Root, a close friend and one-time employer, would say of him, "His smile went into his religion and his religion into his smile", while Arthur T. Pierson, successor to Charles H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle of London, testified that "he was well named 'Bliss'. What a happy man he was! What a ray of sunshine, what a spring of joy!"
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
558 releases · 132 albums · active 1952–2025
- Performance · 488
- Other credits · 147
Studios: Pinebrook Recording Studio · Great Circle Sound · Creative Workshop · Martinsound
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- The Louvin Brothers
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Don Moen
- Marty Robbins
- Cedarmont Kids
- George Beverly Shea