John Redmond (songwriter)

John Redmond (February 25, 1906 – August 26, 1982)[1] was an American songwriter. He was born John Redmond Lynskey and grew up in Clinton, Massachusetts. Among his better known songs was "Christmas in Killarney" (copyrighted 1950), co-written with James Cavanaugh and Frank Weldon.[2]

In 1955, Redmond spearheaded the organization of the Religious Music Guild, along with Father Timothy Flynn, then director of radio and television for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.[3] He subsequently devoted most of his remaining career as a songwriter to creating music for Catholic children. His Religious Music Guild produced two albums of these songs: Seven Songs on the Seven Sacraments[4] and Twelve Songs on the Apostles' Creed.[5] For Christmas 2016 the St. Augustine Academy Press came out with the first ever compilation of the sheet music for the Religious Music Guild songs. They also issued a remastered CD from the original vinyl, including a few Religious Music Guild songs originally on 45 r.p.m. records not included on the original LPs.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Worcester Songwriters of the Great American Songbook : "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"". 12 January 2013.
  2. ^ William Emmett Studwell They also wrote: evaluative essays on lesser-known popular American songwriters prior to the rock era 2000 " "Christmas in Killarney" (1950), by Cavanaugh, John Redmond, and Frank Weldon, remains a modestly enduring holiday piece."
  3. ^ "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 5 November 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 27 May 2023 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Seven songs on the seven sacraments : including the Ten Commandments song for little children". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  5. ^ Archived copy. OCLC 31389204. Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2016-09-10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "St. Augustine Academy Press". Staugustineacademypress.com. Retrieved 27 May 2023.


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