Virgil Oliver Stamps (1892–1940) was a shape note promoter, singer, composer, and singing school teacher.
As a youth, he worked with his father in a sawmill, and used his earnings to purchase every gospel songbook he could find.
Sometime after that, his father bought a small store and V. O. worked there while teaching singing schools until 1914.
In that year the first session of the V. O. Stamps School of Music was held, with a faculty that included Thomas Benton, C. C. Stafford, R. B. Vaughan, and Otis Deaton.
In 1927, with J. R. Baxter, Stamps formed the Stamps-Baxter Music Company, based in Dallas, Texas.