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Sandwiched between the brash novelties and love-dove schmalz on the bestseller lists last week was a prayer set to music. Its composer was no professional songwriter. She was a 42-year-old Cincinnati housewife named Gladys Gollahon, wife of a bus driver and mother of three children. Her song, Our Lady of Fatima, was the more-or-less accidental result of her own prayers...
Like many another American, Gladys Gollahon had been praying for peace. As a Roman Catholic, she offered her devotions especially to Our Lady of Fatima, to whom many Catholics have long addressed their prayers for the conversion of Soviet Russia. Mrs. Gollahon, who composes songs as a hobby, wrote out her prayer in simple high-school verse, turned out a sugary little melody on her piano, marked her score "slowly with expression." Sample...
...White. Robbins decided to publish it; in rapid succession, seven record companies rushed out versions for either their "popular" or "faith" lists. By last week, with three separate recordings by Singers Kitty Kallen (with Richard Hayes), Tony Bennett and Red Foley appearing on Billboard and Variety popularity polls, Mrs. Gollahon glowed: "Why I feel like I'm dreaming yet. I didn't even intend Fatima to be commercial. It just happened...
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