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It reached #70 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1999, and #1 on the Top Contemporary Christian chart. In the following year it reached #144 on the Billboard 200, and #2 on the Top Contemporary Christian chart. [2] The album was certified as double platinum in the United States in 2001 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [3]
It is often included in Gospel music and a cappella concerts, songbooks, and Christian children's songbooks. [1] The song was written by George William Cooke. Cooke was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England in 1884 and died in Jamestown, New York in 1951. He was the author of "Joy in My Heart" which was copyrighted in 1925 (but not renewed).
Moore adopted the stage name "Bobby Purify", and the duo toured together until the 1980s. They re-recorded "I'm Your Puppet", which became a number 12 hit in the UK in 1976, and an album, Purify Bros. [7] Moore began recording as a solo singer for Mercury Records in 1977 and (as Bobby Purify) released an album, Purified, in 1979. He also ...
Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration is a gospel album by various artists, released in 1992 on Warner Alliance.Executive produced by Norman Miller, Gail Hamilton and Mervyn Warren, it is a reinterpretation of the 1741 oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel, and has been widely praised for its use of multiple genres of African-American music, including spirituals, blues, ragtime, big ...
The song was featured on their 1967 album, James & Bobby Purify. [3] The duo released a re-recorded version as a single in 1976 which reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart and #20 in New Zealand. [4] In Canada, it reached #4. [5] Papa Don Enterprises produced the song, and it was arranged by Penn and Don Schroeder. [6]
Doerksen was a member at a local Mennonite Brethren church in British Columbia and graduated from the Mennonite Educational Institute in 1983. [1] In his early twenties, he joined the staff of the Langley Vineyard Christian Fellowship and spent several years there as the worship pastor in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The song peaked at No. 13 on the Christian Songs Billboard chart and appeared on the 2012 year-end Christian Songs chart at No. 27. [3] The song's bridge features lines from the popular hymn "I Surrender All" by Judson W. Van DeVenter and Winfield Scott. [4] [5] This song was also listed at No. 12 on Worship Leader's Top 20 Songs of 2014. [6]
The song is widely used in congregational singing, [3] particularly within evangelicalism. [4] "I Give You My Heart" is a devotional song, [5] part of the contemporary worship music genre, [6] and also a slow ballad. [7] In the liner notes of God is in the House, Morgan said of this song: "The heart of GOD is for us to be completely sold out to ...