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John Robson Sweney

John Robson Sweney is credited on 214 releases across 51 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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214

Pressings credited

51

Albums

8

Decades active

1

In collections

Biography

John Robson Sweney (December 31, 1837 – April 10, 1899) was an American composer from Pennsylvania. He was a professor of music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy for twenty-five years and collaborated with William J. Kirkpatrick to produce and publish over 1,000 gospel hymn songs and over sixty hymnal books. His most popular and widely known hymn is "Beulah Land".

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Credited work

214 releases · 51 albums · active 1955–2025

  • Performance · 227
  • Other credits · 23

Studios: RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · Great Circle Sound · Square One Productions · Pinebrook Recording Studio

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Burl Ives
  • The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
  • George Beverly Shea
  • Riverside Chapel Choir
  • Calee Reed
  • Sons Of Harmony
  • Earle H. Anderson

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