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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The loop was possibly the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn, by James M Black , published in 1911.
The band recorded many songs in Ray's house, using an 8-track. [8] Between the Indiana and Florida contingents of the band, plus guest musicians, 19 people played on the album. [ 9 ] " There's a Family" is about a Ray family Christmas trip to Memphis, his hometown.
The song reached No. 4 on Billboard ' s Best Sellers in Stores survey, along with its flip "The Twelfth of Never", which Mathis initially disliked. [4] The song, released on both 45 RPM and 78 RPM formats, was also included on the 1958 Mathis compilation Johnny's Greatest Hits. The album was certified a gold record on June 5, 1959. [5]
Mathis' recording of the song, arranged by Ray Conniff, was the most successful version, reaching number 5 on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart. [4] In Canada, the song was number two for seven weeks (June 24 - August 5), kept out of number one for six of those weeks by Elvis Presley's (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear. [5]
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music while Evans wrote the lyrics.
"If It Had Not Been For Jesus" is an American Christian hymn (or, gospel song) of unknown authorship. It was included in four hymnals published between 1905 and 1938. [1] The title is taken from the first line of the refrain.
"Release Me" (sometimes rendered as "Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)") is a popular song written by Eddie Miller and Robert Yount in 1949. Four years later it was recorded by Jimmy Heap & the Melody Masters (in 1953), and with even better success by Patti Page (1954), Ray Price (1954), and Kitty Wells (1954).
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics in 1970 in London on the same afternoon he wrote those to "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" (reputedly drinking half a bottle of retsina in the process). [3] Jerry Garcia wrote the music to accompany Hunter's lyrics, [ 3 ] and the song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco.