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"Sweet Inspiration" is a song by the American soul group Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, the first single from their second album Soul Survivor, released in May 1970. It peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart , becoming their second top-ten hit there.
Sweet Inspiration is the title of a Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham composition written for, and first recorded in 1967 by, the Sweet Inspirations.It became a Top 20 hit reaching #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1968, and a live version by Barbra Streisand, in medley with "Where You Lead", would also become a Top 40 hit.
Initially, the song does not specify to whom the prayer is being recited – Mary, Jesus or God. It does, however, suggest that both Mary and Jesus are former outcasts, much like Esmeralda herself. [1] In The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past, author Tison Pugh described Esmeralda as "latently or innately Christian." [22]
It was not until he played this song at his home church Soul Survivor, and his pastor told him to play the song more often, that he realized the potential the song had. Since then, this song has spread and become widely known. Hughes himself said. "No one has been more surprised than myself at seeing how God has used this worship song."
Sweet Hour of Prayer: William W. Walford: William B. Bradbury: 143: Let the Holy Spirit Guide: Penelope Moody Allen: Martin Shaw: 144: Secret Prayer: Hans Henry Petersen: Hans Henry Petersen: 145: Prayer Is the Soul's Sincere Desire: James Montgomery: George Careless: 146: Gently Raise the Sacred Strain: William W. Phelps: Thomas C. Griggs: 147 ...
John Brownlie [6] described the hymn's story in his book The Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church Hymnary: [7] Charlotte's brother, the Rev. H. V. Elliott planned to hold a charity bazaar designed to give, at a nominal cost, a high education to the daughters of clergymen supported by St Mary Church:
1 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole and calms the troubled breast; 'tis manna to the hungry soul, and to the weary, rest. 3 Dear Name! the Rock on which I build; my shield and hiding-place; My never-failing treasury, fill'd
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is an African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns. Originating in early African-American musical traditions, the song was probably composed in the late 1860s by Wallace Willis and his daughter Minerva Willis , both Choctaw freedmen .