Fast Five with Robert Sammons

Fast Five

with Robert Sammons

by Scoops Staff

Baptist College. I graduated with B.D. & B.A. degrees and Betty Jo with a B.S. degree. We graduated with honors and I was president of the Senior Class. We have attended numerous music and songwriting classes including: Ben Speer’s “Stamps Baxter School of Music” at Middle Tennessee State University, Gloria Gaither’s “Songwriters Intensive” at the Gaither Studios and Indiana Wesleyan University, John Chisum’s “Nashville Christian Songwriters” in Franklin, Tennessee and Sue Smith’s “Write About Jesus” in St Charles, Missouri.

2. Tell us what got you into songwriting?

I was singing with some friends at our church and at some local RV parks in South Texas.

My friends would sing some songs they had written themself and that turned me on to songwriting.

3. Who would you say influenced you in your songwriting the most?

First would be my friends in South Texas. Then I met Kenna West at the Stamps Baxter School of Music and she has had great influence on my songwriting.

4. Beside the songs you have written, tell me your favorite song and why?

First would be “Amazing Grace”. There is just something about that song. Then “Oh What a Savior” by The Statesmen Quartet. Two songs really say it all.

1. Please introduce yourself.

I was born “Robert Franklin Sammons” January 23, 1937, in Johnson City, Tennessee.

I joined the United States Air Force in 1954 and became a Radio and Radar Electronic Technician. After the military I married the beautiful Betty Jo Smith and we had four wonderful children. I worked for Raytheon Corp. on the Navy’s Sparrow III Missile. I also taught the adult Sunday school class in a church I helped to organize in the 60’s. That church is a strong witness in Johnson City today. The family moved to Arlington, Texas in 1973 in order to attend the Bible Baptist Seminary and then on to Arlington

“Long Term” is to leave a few songs that will bless someone. Hopefully some get recorded and more people can hear the message in each song.