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George Beverly Shea Papers
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Identifier: CN 541
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, sheet music, business records, phonograph records, programs, songbooks, and other materials from Shea’s career as a soloist, radio personality, and composer. Most of the material is from the last decades of his life, especially his work with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), but the entire range of his life from the 1930s on is covered. Though representing only a fraction of Shea’s papers, it includes a rich collection of source material that Shea used in his musical endeavors.
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The collection is open for research, and there are no access restrictions on the materials.
Conditions Governing Use
Buswell Library & Special Collections does not hold the copyright to any of the music written by Shea or to any of his recordings.
Biographical Information
Full name: George Beverly Shea
Birth: February 1, 1909, in Winchester, Ontario, Canada
Death: April 16, 2013 in Asheville, North Carolina
FamilyParents: Rev. Adam Joseph Shea and Maude Mary Theodora (Whitney) Shea
Siblings: Pauline Barbara Shea Lusk; John Gerald Whitney Shea; Mary Evangling Shea Shea; Ruth Georgin
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Billy Graham
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Cliff Barrows (1923-2016)
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Through the Billy Graham crusades, as the stadium-size revival meetings begun by Graham are known, Mr. Shea was perhaps the most widely heard gospel artist in the world.
He also appeared regularly on ‘‘The Hour of Decision,’’ Graham’s weekly radio broadcast, which began in 1950 and continues to this day.
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On a more intimate scale, he sang at the prayer breakfasts of a series of US presidents, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the first George Bush.
Mr. Shea, who was still singing as he embarked on his second century, was fond of saying that Graham would not let him retire, since nowhere in Scripture is the concept of retirement overtly addressed.
‘‘I’ve been listening to Bev Shea sing for more than 50 years,’’ Graham told the Charlotte Observer in 1997, ‘‘and I would still rather hear him sing than anyone else I know.’’
When interviewers asked why Graham did not simply lead his flock in song himself as many preachers do, Mr. Shea did venture to suggest that the status quo was better for all concerned: Graham, as Mr. Shea put it with true Christian charity, suffered from ‘‘the malady of no melody.’’
Mr. Shea’s vocal style, by contrast, was