Sacred Songs and Solos

Sacred Songs and Solos is a hymn collection compiled by Ira David Sankey, who partnered Dwight Lyman Moody in a series of evangelical crusades from 1870 until Moody's death in 1898.

The collection first appeared in 1873,[1] and has subsequently been published in many editions and formats, expanding to a final volume of 1200 pieces that appeared around 1907.

Although the publication was and is popularly known as Sankey and Moody's Songs, or The Sankey-Moody Hymnbook, many of the tunes and lyrics are by other authors, and the volume includes many standard church hymns.

Sacred Songs and Solos has been translated into many languages.

[1] John Young Wai, a Chinese Australian Presbyterian minister, translated 302 Sankey and Moody hymns into Chinese, which were used throughout Australasia.