“Silver Threads Among the Gold”, first copyrighted in 1873, was an extremely popular song in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is a standard of barbershop quartet singing. The lyrics are by Eben E. Rexford, and the music by Hart Pease Danks. In 1930, an Associated Press story published in the New York Times gave some background on the writing of these lyrics. We quote the article: Continue reading →