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Aretha Franklin's recording career began in 1956 with the help of local record label J-V-B Records. Recording equipment was installed in the New Bethel Baptist Church and nine tracks were recorded, featuring Franklin on vocals and piano. [4]
Tindley’s wife Daisy passed away on the day the congregation moved to the larger sanctuary. He was reportedly heartbroken at her death, and later admitted about her death that “one day I will understand it better by and by”.³ Several of the children Tindley had with Daisy would help him publish his hymns and compositions.
God's Not Dead, He's Yet Alive; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Silent Night; Joy to the World; We Three Kings of Orient Are; The First Noel; O Little Town of Bethlehem; O Come All Ye Faithful; He Arose; The Hallelujah Chorus; What a mighty God we serve; Jesus is Able to save a poor sinner; My God is Able; Praise Him; Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God ...
In 1985, Bland's album Members Only on Malaco reached number 45 on Billboard's R&B albums chart, and the title song reached number 54 for R&B singles. It was his last chart single, and became Bland's signature song for the rest of his career. Bland was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...
In that version, the lyrics were unchanged, but the tune was then called "Thaxted" (named after the village where Holst lived for many years). The editor of the new (1926) edition of Songs of Praise was Holst's close friend Ralph Vaughan Williams , which may have provided the stimulus for Holst's cooperation in producing the hymn.
"Stand by Me" is a 1905 gospel song by Charles Albert Tindley. [1] Despite the song's documented origins, it has sometimes been published without attribution or erroneously listed as "traditional". [2] [3] The song is sometimes referred to as "Stand by Me Father", leading to confusion with an unrelated song with that name by Sam Cooke and J. W ...
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...
It was translated into English by Gertrude C. Suppe, George Lockwood and Raquel Gutiérrez-Achon. [1] " Barka" ('The Barge'), its Polish version, was Pope John Paul II's favourite song. [2] The Polish lyrics were written also in 1974 by Stanisław Szmidt, a Salesian of Don Bosco. [2]