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Amazing Grace is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles , with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance.
Amazing Grace is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Spiritualized, so named to indicate its considerable gospel influence. Although the title hymn does not appear on the album (Spiritualized have covered it previously, and released a free-jazz version as a b-side in 2001, and also on The Complete Works Vol. 2), the ballad "Hold On" is based upon the same melody, and the opening ...
Williams opens the 1990 video Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers singing the signature song. Later in the PBS production, she stylized the song in her own way. In 1991, she performed as a gospel singer in the film Fried Green Tomatoes, though her scene is available only in the director's cut. The movie was dedicated to her.
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.
She has accumulated 20 No. 1 hits on Billboard ' s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Amazing Grace remains the biggest-selling live gospel album of all time, being certified 2× Platinum in the US. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] According to RIAA database, Franklin has sold 16.5 million albums and singles in the US (based on certifications).
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances is a two-disc compilation of studio master recordings by Elvis Presley, released in 1994 on RCA Records and certified double platinum by the RIAA on July 15, 1999. The release also includes a booklet with session details and an essay by Charles Wolfe.
"Amazing Grace" performed by James Cleveland "Christian People" performed by Andraé Crouch "God Gave Me a Song" performed by Myrna Summers "Hello Sunshine" performed by Jessy Dixon [4] 1972: Shirley Caesar "Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man from Galilee" "Great Moments in Gospel" performed by Clara Ward "Pass Me Not" performed by Dottie Rambo
Since the 1950s, sacred and liturgical music has been performed and recorded by many jazz composers and musicians, [4] [1] combining black gospel music and jazz to produce "sacred jazz", similar in religious intent, but differing in gospel's lack of extended instrumental passages, instrumental improvisation, hymn-like structure, and concern ...