WESTERN MOVIE ACTOR
SONGWRITER
COUNTRY & WESTERN RECORDING ARTIST
When you see me fall asleep,
say amen but don’t you weep,
I’ve got so many million years
that I can’t count them.”
WORDS AND MUSIC BY STUART HAMBLEN
COPYRIGHT © HAMBLEN MUSIC
STUART HAMBLEN’S MOST
WELL-KNOWN SONGS INCLUDE:
It Is No Secret
I’ve Got So Many Million Years
Friends I Know
Known Only To Him
Teach Me Lord To Wait
Open Up Your Heart
This Ole House
His Hands
Until Then
How Big Is God
Is He Satisfied?
Gathering Home
PARTIAL CHRISTIAN DISCOGRAPHY:
ALL ALBUMS OUT-OF-PRINT
In The Garden RCA Camden 1966
A Visit With Stuart Hamblen Sacred Records
Of God I Sing Columbia 1962
Beyond The Sun RCA
Camden
The Cowboy Church Word
I Believe Columbia
It Is No Secret RCA Victor 1956
MOTION PICTURES CREDITS:
Mountain Lady 1979
The Savage Horde 1950
King of the Forest Rangers 1946
The Plainsman and the Lady 1946
Flame of the Barbary Coast 1945
Carson City Cyclone 1943
King of the Cowboys 1943
The Sombrero Kid 1942
The Arizona Kid 1939
In Old Monterey 1939
LINKS
This page modified May 2006.
1908 - 1989
Carl Stuart Hamblen was born on October 20, 1908 in Kellyville, Texas, the
son of a itinerant Methodist preacher.
Between 1931 and 1952, he had several radio
programs on the air and appeared in some 10 western movies.
In 1949, Stuart attended a prayer meeting
being held by a young Billy Graham in Los Angeles. He made a
decision to devote his life to Christ. He gave up his drinking,
his radio programs and acting career, and began traveling
across the country speaking and singing at Youth for Christ
rallies, Billy Graham crusades, and churches with his wife,
Suzy.
In the early 50s, he started a nationally
syndicated radio program called the “The Cowboy Church of
the Air”. When the sponsors demanded he do a commercial
promoting alcohol, he refused--and the sponsors pulled out
ending his show.
It is no secret what God can do.
What He's done for others,
He'll do for you.
With arms wide open,
He'll pardon you.
It is no secret what God can do.
WORDS AND MUSIC BY STUART HAMBLEN
COPYRIGHT © SONGS OF UNIVERSAL INC
In 1952, the Prohibition Party nominated
him to run for President of the United States (Eisenhower won
that year).
Stuart is best known by Christians for the
many songs he wrote. His most well known is It Is No Secret, which was
written in 1951 reportedly after a casual remark
(“...sounds like a song”) by actor John Wayne to
Stuart, so it is said (see the Creating a Gospel Classic link
below).
In 1954, he was signed by RCA Victor and
his first release for them, This
Ole House, reached the top of the
Country & Western charts as sung by Stuart, and Rosemary
Clooney’s rendition reached number 3 on the pop charts.
Stuart Hamblen was awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976.
