VEP ELLIS SINGS HIS SONGS

Rev. Vep Ellis was one of the greatest gospel song writers of the 20th century.
He was an equally great singer. Some called him the "Bing Crosby of Gospel Music".
Here a just a few of his hundreds of songs. Born in Alabama, had to add that.

[@mahatmajoy]

I love "Have Faith in God Believe in Jesus". I was coming down a mountain and the brakes had gone out of the van I was driving (emergency brake was broken) This song came to me and I began singing it as we nearly went off the mountain on the curves. Then a long straight away came and as I was madly pumping the brakes I got a little brake and the van slowed and finally stopped. We looked out on a beautiful meadow and there was a huge cross with a huge beam of light streaming down over it. We knew that God has saved our lives. We called a tow truck driver and when he realized where we were-he said cell phones don't work on Viking Mountain-how are you calling me? We said this cell phone works. God is so good. Thank you God and for this song and for Vep.

[@mahoradewes3212]

Praise God for miracles

[@FatherJosephPerez]

Very beuteous. The music of heaven

[@ldhealthcare25]

Wow! I lived in St. Petersburg, Fl. in the 70's and used to go over to Harvest Temple now and then. Met Vep and he was fantastic! Almost went there as Principal for their Christian School they were starting. Now his music, traditional hymns, Southern Gospel Music is waning and Churches are into rock and roll bands and noise that I don't care for at all. I can't even find a Church of any denomination where I live that sings these songs I'm listening to here with Vep. What a shame and what a sham!

[@thomastoler2397]

I absolutely feel your pain! I can’t describe how empty I feel because of this!

[@randydavis7940]

AMEN !!!

[@pearlellzey]

Great music to listen to. Bro. Ellis was a special person. I never get tired of listening to his recorded songs. May they live on forever to bless hearts.

[@PreservingMemories2]

Amen!! His is my favorite writer of gospel music. I wish could have known him. A sweet lady at my church tells me that he was her pastor at the old Pratt City Church of God in Alabama.

[@katherynschroeder4778]

Harvest Temple was our home church after our salvation. Loved Vep and his family. Looking forward to seeing him again.

[@gregleith4230]

My dad also attended there, John Leith

[@ericellis4482]

my name is Eric Ellis, I am Vep Ellis's grandson, Richard Ellis's son. My mother Marge Ellis passed away about two years ago. My brother Evan Ellis has a family of one son named Ethan Ellis his wife Alana is beautiful and works at WSU college in Pullman Washington, my life has been hard to say the least I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder in my early life but have remained strong in the lord and live in Clarkston Washington.

[@gregleith4230]

@@ericellis4482 your grandpa Vep was my fathers pastor

[@hope2sing4ever]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Love Vep's music. As a young minister, he ministered in a revival at my home church. He wrote a song at my aunt's home (with whom he was staying for the week) and I can remember sitting on his knee while he sang for us. (I was about 4!) Such a talented man!

[@PreservingMemories2]

Such cherished memories of a legend. He is my favorite gospel music composer. My favorite song is "I Know He Heard My Prayer" check out the Gardendale Redback Hymnal rendering of that song on my channell. Thank for viewing and commenting. What state are you from?

[@hope2sing4ever]

I have so many favorites of his! I watched the entire Redback hymnal night and saw "I Know He Heard My Prayer!" His sons have a great rendition also! Florida!

[@PreservingMemories2]

My wife was born in Tampa and I have heard her mother speak of seeing and hearing much of Vep in Florida but remember Vep was born in Alabama. I wish you could have been with me last night at the Gardendale Redback Hymnal at Gardendale, AL It was out-of-this-world wonderful! Next year's Singing at Gardendal will be on April 18, 2015.We had two chartered coaches going from Northport, AL to Gardendale. You guy have plenty of time now to plan a weekend trip to Alabama for the 2015 singing. We had people from 6 states and two foreign countries. I said after last years singing, "it can't get any better" boy was I wrong. It gets better every year.

[@jerryalexander6122]

My Mother attended the annual Church of God Camp Meeting at Wimauma, Fl, from the mid 40's until the mid 60's, when she suffered a stroke, and was unable to attend any more. She was the pianist at her Church, and she always looked forward to Campmeeting and Vep's musical ministry!

[@jerryalexander6122]

Thanks, so much, for posting this. I listen to this and can feel my Mom's presence. She loved Vep's songs. Also , I heard Hovie Lister, of The Statesmen Quartet, laud Vep Ellis numerous times in concert, when they were performing one of his songs!

[@jrlspooner]

Vep's father was my Dad's (RW Spooner) first pastor in Wilmington, NC and his songs were always favorites of my family. When I was four (early 1950's) we had a reel-to-reel tape with his songs. I was the only one who could work the player.. Mom loves to tell of me listening to him sing, turning off the machine and saying "Veppy, you sang for me, now I'm going to sing for you". I still love to sing many of his songs. I was amazed not to long ago to have noone recognise "I'm in a New World" when I sang it in a Church of God (Cleveland, TN) when it is in the Red Back Hymnal.

[@PreservingMemories2]

Jim, you have such cherished memories. I never had the priviledge to meet Vep but he has been my favorite writer for as along as I can remember. I have so many favorite Vep songs but I think my favorite, favorite is "I Know He Heard My Prayer." That song blesses me to the core. Check out my videos of the Redback Hymnal Singing at the Gardendale 1st Baptist Church. Then put it on your calendar to meet me at the Annual Redback Hymnal at Gardendale the 26th of April this year. Starts at 6:00 pm but get there by 5:00 to get your seat in the choir along with 300 more. Bring a bus load , you will think you have gone to Heaven.

[@janiceschiltz6354]

Jim Spooner Jim, Vep was our pastor when I was in the 7th grade, just before he went to Oklahoma to be with Oral Roberts.

[@thomastoler2397]

Our younger generations are cheating themselves by EXCLUSIVELY singing contemporary Christian and praise & worship music. I fail to see why we can’t have BOTH types of music in our churches. I even saw a pastor’s wife get hostile when it was mentioned; a friend of mine was she, but dared risk our friendship over her comments (I was the one singing the old song!). We are still friends but I quietly exited the scene to make way for the new. None of the ensuing pianists are anywhere near the level of my ability, but I could not in good conscience, completely eliminate these great songs.

[@watermelonridge]

Finally!!!!!!! :-) THANK YOU for posting these recordings! I have been looking for them, hoping someone with the LP's would post them.

[@janlovehelgeson4575]

He prayed for me in May, 1968. It was in Little Rock, Arkansas at a FGBMFI meeting. I'll never forget it.

[@jimbob0948]

Vep was always my hero. He was my Gen Autry. My mother told of how he used to take her and her sisters around on his revival meetings. He was a product of Holiness and complete dedication to the Lord. My father worried about him when he became Oral Robert's Music man. Vep came back to clearwater and spent his final years in the Harvest Temple Church of God. What a power house. If I were advising young talented people, i would point to this example. I am not sure that current church atmospheres can produce a Vep. I am praying that the lord will use one of my descendants to do good work in the church. One would have to live sleep and breathe the gospel to do what Vep did. People back then had only one hope and that was in our lord. We will possibly face that again. The stage is set for believers to be persecuted. It's already happening. i was in the altar praying at age 20 and I saw a scene that has stayed with me. I saw big dark skinned men in a center around what looked like an old well. They were holding up two male children by their feet and hitting them on the head with a base ball bat. Now that I see Isis and the unbending behaviors of the Arab world I see that that scene could easily play out right now even here in America. My father was an objector in World War II. My grandmother would not let us play with guns, My faith is not violent. We are lambs before slaughter. That scene could come true.

[@uriahpeep9036]

Comment about Vep Ellis joining Oral Roberts music team. In retrospect, this was a BAD mistake on Vep's part. Oral Roberts went on to completely trash the holiness/Pentecostal church with the dishonest practices that ORU engaged in. The level of corruption was reported in national media concerning his business practices and even more so when Richard Roberts took over ORU and the media presentations. The lavish lifestyle of Oral and son are equal to the corrupt practice of Jim and Tammy Baker......who the world also knows about. It appears that spiritual men often have FEET OF CLAY when you look at their actions and the fallout.......too bad they do not have the spiritual insight to AVOID the very pitfalls they seem to preach against in regard to others lives. It is so easy to preach to others about what sins to avoid.......but it seems to be almost impossible for those same preachers to AVOID those sins in their OWN LIVES.

[@thomastoler2397]

Uriah Peep, I never had much for any televangelist, but Oral and the Bakers were at the bottom of my list, and Richard Robert’s, I had even less! I knew in my spirit that he was not going to do anything but take that ministry even lower. I did have some respect for Swaggert, but then…. I feel he has repented and is possibly doing good works now, but I still don’t follow him. Our pastors in the Church of God, discouraged us from following televangelists. The Church of God has safeguards against such large televangelism ministries in that Cleveland, TN (our headquarters), owns all church properties, thereby having perfect leverage over the conduct of such pastors. Not saying our pastors have never erred (I can personally give you a long list), it just can’t happen in such spectacular scandals. I am sad to say that most of our churches, however, no longer sing such wonderful songs like these. I fail to understand why we can’t have both…old & new ?! I used to play piano and lead choir/congregationals, but sadly, no longer.

[@thomastoler2397]

Paul Henderson, “current church atmospheres” cannot produce such men as this. Hardship and trial is what produces pure gold. I’m wondering how long God is going to allow America to trend in the direction she has been going. It is such a distressing time. Prayer from believers is what will see us through. 🙏

[@dangimontv]

This is my grandfather looks like I use to preach in a distillery

[@davelong3088]

I think my father told me he was touring with Vep Ellis as a back up singer until he met my mother and settled in Plant City. Dad's been gone since '82 but my Mom is still around and I'm waiting to hear back from her for confirmation. Some of these do sound very familiar so it may be true.

[@raystyles9758]

My grandpa wrote songs with him

[@user-rd1gl6cu4q]

Could you pin a list of the songs you have posted?

[@kennethsmith3719]

Edwin, please provide information on sheet music and or mp3 file or something to give my choir director for two songs if you can, 1st song - starting at the 20:23 mark "My Lord has the answer for it all" ; 2nd song - starting at 45:23 mark "for he's my Jesus". Something I can download or listen to in a separate KZbin file. Thanks for posting.

[@mrquince4063]

Hearts not right. That's the song I know.

[@mrquince4063]

Check it out, the only way you can become a publisher is to be able to kill your enemies so you better know Jesus before I get there.

[@mrquince4063]

I know I'm not going to heaven. I'm not retarded.

[@mrquince4063]

now agnostics are terrified of the fear of god, I know its love. Raven on the other hand hears it as none other then a old scripture written in the old testament. "Spare the rod spoil the child." Whap.

[@mrquince4063]

Dad already said that he doesn't want to raise another child, because Taylan stayed at my house.

[@mrquince4063]

and check it out I hide piles of the fear of god in my mind.

[@mrquince4063]

Well check it out when a believer lays down with a unbeliever.