Gospel Music - Gaithers - I Have a Song Inside

For the last four decades, Bill Gaither, has lived a dream that began when he was a student in elementary school. In the late 1940s, he was milking cows when he heard the rousing Southern gospel music of the Dixie Stamps Quartet on a dusty radio in the barn, and he was captivated. "I can remember sitting at my desk in sixth grade wondering if the new 78 RPM of the Ranger's Quartet came in the mail today," he says.

Driven by a work ethic forged during long days baling hay and shucking corn on his family's 60-acre farm, Gaither, the oldest of three siblings, slowly built a back-room gospel songwriting business into an industry juggernaut. All of this while working as a high school English teacher after regional, and then national, gospel artists began recording his tunes.

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