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The RIAA certification for How Great Thou Art was updated to platinum on March 27, 1992. [39] In 2008, Sony Music released a remastered version of How Great Thou Art that included three bonus tracks. [43] In 2010, the Presley collector label Follow That Dream released a version that also contained all the outtakes from the recording sessions. [44]
Elvis Presley – How Great Thou Art (1967) Dionne Warwick – Magic of Believing (1968) [1] Whitney Houston featuring Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, Johnny Gill, Monica and Ralph Tresvant – The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album (1996) Marion Williams; The Caravans featuring Josephine Howard)
His co-producer, guitarist Chet Atkins, recruited Stoker to sing backup for "a 'new-probably-wouldn't-be-around-long kid, named Elvis Presley'". [10] Instead of recruiting all of the Jordanaires, as Presley had wanted, Chet Atkins hired Ben and Brock Speer of the vocal group the Speer Family, who had also recently signed to RCA, to sing with ...
It was recorded on March 20 of the same year at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee, Presley's hometown. The cover features a photograph of Presley's home, Graceland. Presley earned his third Grammy Award for this album's performance of "How Great Thou Art" (he had previously won for the album of the same title).
How Great Thou Art: 2:23: 14. "How Great Thou Art" Stuart K. Hine (original by Carl Boberg) How Great Thou Art: 3:00: 15. "In the Garden" C. Austin Miles: How Great Thou Art: 3:09: 16. "Somebody Bigger Than You or I" Sonny Burke, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange: How Great Thou Art: 2:25: 17. "Farther Along" Traditional: arr. by Elvis Presley: How Great ...
After that song, a version of "How Great Thou Art" by Elvis is played with the band. In early shows, this proved to be problematic: since the audio was taken from the 1974 live album Elvis As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis, but there was no video footage. Thus, the screen was left black, and only the audio was played.
The two non-soundtrack studio albums from the 1960s whose contents do not appear on this box, His Hand in Mine and How Great Thou Art, were released in a similar two-disc set for the gospel recordings in 1994, Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances. The Sinatra/Presley duet was recorded at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida.
Swedish gospel singer Per-Erik Hallin has credited Elvis Presley's rendition of "How Great Thou Art" as a major factor in the revival of "O Store Gud" in Sweden. [55] On 4 April 2011, Carrie Underwood performed this song on the ACM Presents: Girls Night Out show. She sang together with Vince Gill and received a standing ovation.