PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY! This is an exciting year for Latter-day Saint hymnophiles, because “Latter-day Saint Hymns,” which was the main hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints two generations back from the current hymnal, was first published in 1927!

Happy Public Domain Day! 🎉
Every year on January 1st, many old books enter the public domain due to copyright expiration. Today, works published in the United States in 1927 became public domain.
This is an exciting year for Latter-day Saint hymnophiles, because “Latter-day Saint Hymns,” which was the main hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints two generations back from the current hymnal, was first published in 1927!
To celebrate, we scanned the hymnal, along with a few other 1927 songbooks,* and uploaded them to the Internet Archive so anyone can access them. You can find them here:
https://archive.org/details/@sbradshaw
*Here’s the complete list:
– Latter-day Saint Hymns (1927 first edition)
– Latter-day Saint Hymns (November 1927 edition – the last few hymns were changed)
– Latter-day Saint Hymns (December 1928 edition)
– Latter-day Saint Hymns (July 1936 edition)
– Latter-day Saint Hymns (March 1940 edition)
– Deseret Anthems, Volume 3 (1927)
– Primary Song Book (1927, Deseret News Press – 17 songs were added in this edition; the first edition of the Primary Song Book was published in 1905)
– Primary Song Book (1927, Zion’s Printing and Publishing Co.)