''Hymns'' is a 1956 studio album by
Tennessee Ernie Ford, released in 1957. It was the second-best-selling record in the
United States in 1957. The album is one of the best selling of all time, and spent 277 weeks on the
''Billboard'' 200.
The album was re-recorded in stereo in 1962 and assigned the catalog number ST 756, while the original 1957 mono recording remained in the Capitol catalog as T 756.
The album appeared the same year that Ford launched his 5-year
NBC television series, ''
The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford''. He closed each episode with a hymn.
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Track listing
Side 1
# "Who At My Door Is Standing"
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Films
* ''Rock of Ages'' (1918 film), a British silent film by Bertram Phillips
* ''Rock of Ages'' (2012 film), a film adaptation of the jukebox musical (see below)
Music
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# "Softly and Tenderly
"Softly and Tenderly" is a Christian hymn. It was composed and written by Will L. Thompson in 1880.
Allegedly, when evangelist Dwight L. Moody was in the hospital barred from seeing visitors although Thompson had arrived, Moody insisted tha ...
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# "Sweet Hour of Prayer"
# "My Task"
# "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning"
Side 2
# "The Ninety and Nine"
# " The Old Rugged Cross"
# " When They Ring the Golden Bells"
# "In the Garden
IN, In or in may refer to:
Places
* India (country code IN)
* Indiana, United States (postal code IN)
* Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN)
* In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Businesses and organizations
* Independ ...
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# "Ivory Palaces"
# "Others"
References
1957 albums
Capitol Records albums
Tennessee Ernie Ford albums
Gospel albums by American artists
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