Emmett S. Dean
Musician · 1876–1951
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Emmett S. Dean was a turn-of-the-twentieth-century American Methodist musician and gospel-song composer who set James W. Acuff’s 1906 lyric “Just Over in the Glory Land” to the tune that has carried the song into more than a century of country and bluegrass-gospel recordings.
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- Born Emmet Sidney Dean in 1876.
- Worked as a Methodist church musician and gospel-song composer.
- Wrote the tune to “Just Over in the Glory Land,” setting James W. Acuff’s 1906 lyric; the tune is sometimes titled “Dean” or “Gloryland.”
- The song was first published in 1906 in the Acuff-Dean songbook Glad Hosannas.
- Died in 1951.
