Sam C. Hart
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Songwriter
Sam C. Hart is the credited author of the country and bluegrass-gospel song “When It’s Lamplighting Time in the Valley,” a parlor-style standard cut by the Vagabonds, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff, and a long line of later country and bluegrass acts.
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- Credited, with Joe Lyons and Herald Goodman of the Vagabonds, as the author of “When It’s Lamplighting Time in the Valley.”
- The Vagabonds first recorded the song in 1932; it became a Grand Ole Opry staple of the 1930s.
- The song has since been recorded by the Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Hank Locklin, and many other country and bluegrass-gospel acts.
