Parsons served as music director for several churches. In 1975, he joined the famed the Kingsmen Quartet as a baritone. In 1979, he began a solo career, becoming best known for "Sweet Beulah Land ...

After graduating from West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 1970, Parsons served as music director for ... becoming best known for “Sweet Beulah Land,” a song he penned for ...

Carlisle said a plaque with his sheet music and an autographed photo will go up on a wall in the school in Parsons’ memory. “‘Sweet Beulah Land ... was a good, Christian man and an ...