HEAVENLY AEROPLANE

Created on 27/04/2021
Latest update on 19/12/2023

Artist: John S. McConnell
Author: John S. McConnell
Year: 1925

Holy roller Holiness song from a Pentecostal pastor, published in Gospel Quintet Songs (Thoro Harris - 1928).

Covers:

1937:

Sons Of The Pioneers [as Heavenly Airplane]

1937:

Mrs. Nell Hampton [as The Airplane Ride; Alan Lomax recording released on The Gospel Ship - Baptist Hymns & White Spirituals from the Southern Mountains (New World); part of it opens album version of Joan Osborne's hit One Of Us (see there)]

1960s:

J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers [as Heavenly Airplane]

1963:

Hobart Smith [as Heaven's Airplane]

1977:

Watersons

2012:

Terry Evans & Hans Theessink [as Heavenly Airplane]

One of these nights just at 12 o'clock
The old world's goin' to reel and rock
Poor sinners will tremble and cry for pain
And the Lord will come in his heavenly plane.

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