Frank Southern
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Frank Southern was an early-twentieth-century gospel songwriter credited with “Take Me in Your Lifeboat,” the maritime-Christian hymn that J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers introduced on record in 1935 and that has since become a bluegrass and Southern-gospel standard through later recordings by Flatt & Scruggs, Del McCoury, and many others.
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- Wrote “Take Me in Your Lifeboat” (also recorded as “Take Me in a Lifeboat”), one of the standard bluegrass-gospel hymns of the maritime-rescue tradition.
- J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers cut the song’s first commercial recording in 1935.
- The song has since been recorded by Flatt & Scruggs, Del McCoury, Big Country Bluegrass, and many others, and remains a brush-arbor and bluegrass-jam standard.
