How Great Thou Art (album)
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| Studio album by Elvis Presley | ||
| Released | February 1967 | |
| Recorded | May 1966 | |
| Genre | Gospel | |
| Length | 34:38 | |
| Label | RCA Victor | |
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| Elvis Presley chronology | ||
| Spinout 1966 | How Great Thou Art (1967) |
Double Trouble (1967)
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How Great Thou Art was Elvis Presley's second RCA Victor 12" long-play gospel album, recorded and originally released in 1967.
Elvis won a Grammy Award in 1967 in the Best Sacred Performance category for How Great Thou Art.[1]
[edit] Track listing
- How Great Thou Art (words and music by Stuart K. Hine, original by Carl Boberg )
- In The Garden (words and music by C.A. Miles)
- Somebody Bigger Than You And I (words and music by Lange/Heath/Burke)
- Farther Along (traditional, arranged by Elvis Presley)
- Stand by Me (traditional, arranged by Elvis Presley, original by Charles Tindley)
- Without Him (Mylon R. LeFevre)
- So High (arranged by Elvis Presley)
- Where Could I Go But To The Lord (J.B. Coats)
- By And By (arranged by Elvis Presley)
- If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side (words and music by Henry Slaughter)
- Run On (arranged by Elvis Presley)
- Where No One Stands Alone (Lister)
- Crying In The Chapel (Artie Glenn)
Elvis Presley prepared for this recording session months in advance. The choices for the songs on the album changed weeks after weeks. A lot of the initial choices were left behind during the recording process and most of the songs on the album were last minute choices.
The inclusion of Crying in the Chapel on the album was decided by RCA as Elvis never mattered too much about the final content of his albums. It had been a worldwide hit for him two years before although the song had been recorded way back in 1960.
The album performed rather well on the charts when it was released although it was far from being an instant smash hit. Elvis was performing rather badly on the charts at that time in his career. How Great Thou Art, in the long term, proved to be one of Elvis's best seller.
Felton Jarvis was the producer of this album. Elvis got along so well with him that he asked him to produce all his future recording sessions. Except for the 1969 Memphis recording sessions, Felton Jarvis turned out to be Elvis's sole record producer until 1977. Jarvis even quit all his other jobs and refused to produce any other artist as long as he was with Elvis.
