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How Great Thou Art is the eighth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, ... Meanwhile, the release of the soundtrack of his film G.I. Blues (1960
Presley's version was recorded on October 30, 1960 [11] and was the title track of his 1960 gospel album. [12] The song was released nine years later as an Easter single on March 25, 1969. [13] The B-side was a more recent recording of "How Great Thou Art." [14] Neither side charted and the record sold poorly. [15]
The photo of Elvis Presley used as the documentary's key image is from a test shoot for his 1960 film Flaming Star, in which he wore brown contact lenses to assess if it was a better fit for his role as a half-Native American character, as Elvis had naturally blue eyes; this plan was discarded, however, when they began shooting the film.
Disc one contains the entirety of his two albums released respectively in 1960 and 1967, His Hand In Mine and How Great Thou Art. The other five tracks contain the four-song EP Peace in the Valley from 1957, incorporated later that year into his first Christmas album , and the 1965 hit single " Crying in the Chapel " which reached No. 3 on the ...
"How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on an original Swedish hymn entitled "O Store Gud" written in 1885 by Carl Boberg (1859–1940). The English version of the hymn and its title are a loose translation by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine from 1949.
Carmichael also provided the backing for a number of RCA albums by Gospel singer George Beverly Shea, including The Love of God in 1958, and How Great Thou Art in 1969. In 1969, Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser collaborated on Tell It Like It Is, a folk musical about God. The record album of the musical, which included the song "Pass It On", sold ...
For the 75th anniversary of the hymn "How Great Thou Art," copyright owners of the song asked worship leader Matt Redman to record a new verse.
2017: How Great Thou Art: Documenting 50 years of Caribbean funerals in London, The Tabernacle (2 November 2017 to 5 November 2017). Q&A with Alex Pascall, 5 November. [57] 2021: Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now, Tate Britain (December 2021–3 April 2022) [58] 2022: Grove Survivors, The Muse Gallery, 8 April–24 April ...