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Amazing Grace is an album by Judy Collins, released in 1985 by the UK record label Telstar.It was her first album after ending her 24-year association with Elektra and was recorded and released in 1985 in the UK as a Christmas offering.
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for her ...
National Public Radio’s Samatha Balaban’s excellent story on the history of “Amazing Grace” reveals that singer Judy Collins did an impromptu rendition of the hymn at a 1969 meeting of war ...
[73] Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing "Amazing Grace". Collins also considered it a talisman of sorts, and saw its equal emotional impact on the marchers, witnesses, and law enforcement who opposed the civil rights ...
The Judy Collins Concert is a 1964 live album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, which included combined traditional folk material with songs by Bob Dylan and Tom Paxton. It was recorded on March 21, 1964 at the Town Hall in New York City. With the exception of "Hey, Nelly, Nelly", none of the songs had been previously recorded by ...
Steve Baltin from Cash Box wrote: "Collins' contribution to the glut of Christmas recordings definitely takes the prize for most serious, as it includes original numbers like 'Song for Sarajevo.' In addition, the arrangements are almost eerily sparse, with a bit of spoken word from the Bible thrown in on 'Away in a Manger.'
Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins (or simply Colors of the Day) is a compilation album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1972. In the United Kingdom , it was released as Amazing Grace: The Best of Judy Collins [ 5 ] (not to be confused with her 1985 UK album Amazing Grace ).
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