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How Great Thou Art is the eighth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in February 1967. How Great Thou Art is a gospel album with slow numbers on one side, and fast-paced numbers on the flipside.
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).
Disc one contains the entirety of his two albums released respectively in 1960 and 1967, His Hand In Mine and How Great Thou Art. The other five tracks contain the four-song EP Peace in the Valley from 1957, incorporated later that year into his first Christmas album , and the 1965 hit single " Crying in the Chapel " which reached No. 3 on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recording sessions took place on September 28 and 29, 1966, at Paramount Studio in Hollywood, California. After the relative freedom of the Nashville sessions in May that yielded How Great Thou Art and other songs more to his taste, Presley was reportedly unhappy with the quality of the songs selected for the film, allegedly referring to the selections as "shit" during the recording session. [3]
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)
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.