Albert publishes his first song titled “I Can Hear Them Singing Over There”

Albert works for the E.M. Bartlett at the Hartford Music Institute making songbooks and teaching in the traveling Singing School. It’s at one of his traveling Singing School sessions that he meets Goldie Schell in Powell, MO.

Albert walked 28 miles from his parents home to the Hartford Music Institute in Hartford, AR with dreams of learning how to write music with his mentor E.M. Bartlett. Albert graduated from the Hartford Music Institute.

Albert E. Brumley was born near Spiro, OK. Two years before Oklahoma was gained statehood.