How Great Thou Art (Elvis Presley album)
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''How Great Thou Art'' is the ninth studio album by American
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and musician
Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one ...
, released by RCA Victor in February 1967. ''How Great Thou Art'' is a
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album with slow numbers on one side, and fast-paced numbers on the flipside. The album earned Presley a
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for Best Sacred Performance, while it became a '' Billboard'' top 20 pop hit and it appeared on the
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chart on the top 10. After the initial success of his films and their respective
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s, Presley's movie career began to decline by the mid-1960s. Due to the continued success of his previous gospel recording, ''
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'' (1960), and the fact that his 1965 single of "
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" -- a leftover from the 1960 album sessions -- became an unexpected major hit, RCA accepted Presley's proposal of a follow-up release. The tracks were recorded in May 1966, and produced by
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with the accompaniment of
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and
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. Following its February 1967 release, ''How Great Thou Art'' was
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by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The recording was promoted with a radio special on
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that featured its tracks. Subsequent reviews praised Presley's album while its certification was updated to multiple platinum by 2010.


Background

In March, 1960, at the end of his career in the United States Army,
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returned to recording music. That year, his release '' Elvis is Back!'' reached number 2 on the Billboard Top Albums chart, while it topped the
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. Meanwhile, the release of the soundtrack of his film ''
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'' (1960) topped both ''
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'' Top Albums and the
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. Presley's manager,
Colonel Tom Parker Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 January 21, 1997),
, shifted the focus of the singer's career to acting. Presley preferred dramatic roles, but after the flop of ''
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'' (1960) and ''
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'' (1961) the use of his music in films increased. Presley's next film, '' Blue Hawaii'' (1961), became a box-office success, while its soundtrack topped ''Billboard's'' Top Albums Chart for 20 weeks. Parker decided to shift the business model to produce films that would sell soundtracks, while the soundtracks would in turn promote the films. Consequentially, Presley stopped recording non-album soundtracks. Presley grew increasingly unhappy with the quality of the songs, as well as the plots of the films in which he starred. By 1965, Presley's box-office earnings started to decline.


Production

Concurrent with his box-office earnings decline, Presley was insisting that RCA work on a new
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album, but his requests were rejected each time. As Presley's records failed to match his earlier albums' profits, his 1960 gospel album ''
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'' sold well. Meanwhile, the April 1965 release of "
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," recorded during the ''His Hand in Mine'' sessions, reached number 3 on the
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chart. RCA and Parker reconsidered Presley's idea and they arranged the date for the next recording sessions. The recordings would be Presley's first non-soundtrack album in more than two years, and the production was assigned to
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, marking his first collaboration with Presley.
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, producer and manager of Nashville's
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, assigned Jarvis because of Presley's preference to record at night. To prepare his voice, Presley worked with members of his entourage -- Charlie Hodge and Sonny West -- at
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. Together they reviewed the material that Presley's publisher
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sent, but they settled on recording songs that Presley liked that were not owned by the company. Presley requested that the label hire singer Jimmy Jones to appear on the album, but he could not be located by Parker's assistant nor Hill & Range's representative
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. Presley's management then hired the singer's favorite gospel quartet:
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, led by
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. Additionally, the
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and a backing group that consisted of
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and two other female session backup singers completed the vocal section. According to the Jordanaires, member Ray Walker suggested that Presley record the song "
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" based on the success of
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's recording that was used on
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's events. Meanwhile, Presley's assistant Charlie Hodge claimed Presley decided to record the song after he played version by
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for Presley. The selected songs that were in the
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were rearranged to meet requirements to register the copyright by Presley's management. The recording of ''How Great Thou Art'' took place in May 1966. On the first day, May 25, 1966, Presley practiced the songs with the backup singers on the piano. After two hours, he started the first take of " Run On." Presley sang the song using the same vocal techniques the
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used on their performances of the song. The first number took seven takes, then Presley moved to the title-track. ''How Great Thou Art'' was recorded in four takes.
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, a friend of Presley who was present at the session, remarked that after the last take the singer was "drained" and that he "almost fainted." He continued with the traditional song ''Stand By Me'', which Presley had difficulty singing. Jarvis worked with him repeating the takes several times so Presley could use the
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needed to reach the falsetto range. After the eleventh take, Presley moved to a number often sung by Hess, ''Where No One Stands Alone''. The next day, they recorded ''So High'', ''Farther Along'' and ''In the Garden''. The third night of recording, May 27, was set to be the last one for the album since the Imperials were scheduled to leave for the start of their Canadian tour. Presley recorded ''If the Lord Wasn't Walking by My Side'' as a duet with Hess. Additionally, the session produced '' Somebody Bigger Than You and I'', ''Without Him'', and ''Where Could I Go But to the Lord''. The production of the record placed the slower numbers on the
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while the B side was dedicated to faster-paced songs. As ''Crying in the Chapel'' had not yet appeared on an album release, the slow-tempo song was included as a bonus track to close the B-side. The album cover featured the church and steeple of the First Church of Christ of
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.


Release and reception

''How Great Thou Art'' was released in February 1967. ''Billboard'' qualified the release as "great," while the review remarked that the songs pointed to the where Presley "got his style of singing." Meanwhile, '' Cashbox'' felt that Presley sang the tunes in a "feelingful, sincere manner." The ''
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'' called it a "considerable success," while ''
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'' considered it Presley "at his versatile best." The '' Courier-Post'' felt that the songs of the A-side were "good," but that Presley "fails" on the flipside. The reviewer concluded that ''How Great Thou Art'' was "good listening," and that ''Crying in the Chapel'' presented Presley in "near his best." ''
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'' wrote that the album was "well sung," while ''
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'' mentioned Presley's transition from "teenage to later pop," and it considered the style of the album "smooth and acceptable." The album reached number 18 on the ''
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'' and number seven on the
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chart. On March 19, 1967, on
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, Parker made a deal for the album to be played on 276 stations across the United States, while in cases six stations on the same area joined the program. Parker gave three minutes for the sponsoring of local charities to the announcers of each station and a national spot for the
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during the broadcast. The same year, on December 3, Parker included songs of the album in a similar Christmas broadcast that comprehended 2,000 stations. By February 1968, the album was certified gold by the RIAA. In March 1968, at the
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, the album won the category for Best Sacred Performance,and was Presley's first win at the Grammy Awards. By the following decade, the title-track became part of his usual repertoire in concerts. One 1974 performance, for the album ''
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'', would also win the Grammy for this category, as would his 1972 album, '' He Touched Me''. All three Grammys won by Presley during his lifetime were for his gospel/sacred recordings. In August 1977, James Blackwood sang (with the Stamps) the ''How Great Thou Art'' at Presley's funeral. In 1988, RCA reissued the record on
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. The RIAA certification for ''How Great Thou Art'' was updated to platinum on March 27, 1992. In 2008,
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released a remastered version of ''How Great Thou Art'' that included three bonus tracks. In 2010, the Presley collector label ''Follow That Dream'' released a version that also contained all the outtakes from the recording sessions. The same year, the album certification was upgraded to 3× Platinum on October 13. ''
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'' rated the release with five stars out of five. The publication remarked the "splendid" vocal support that Presley received, as the guide hailed as " effective on the dramatic." ''
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'' rated it with three-and-a-half bones out of five. ''
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'' gave the release four stars out of five. Critic John Bush remarked the "different conceptions" that each side of the record offered: The reviewer considered the opening "very high church" and traditional, while he praised the flipside as "a far more exciting proposition" with the use of "rocking" or "swinging pianos" with " breakneck tempos."


Track listing


Original release


2008 reissue bonus tracks


2010 Follow That Dream reissue

;Disc One ;Disc two


Personnel

* Elvis Presley – vocals; piano on 2008 reissue bonus track "You'll Never Walk Alone" *
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– vocals *
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– vocals *
Millie Kirkham Millie Kirkham (born Mildred Eakes; June 24, 1923 – December 14, 2014) was an American singer who was featured on many classic hit recordings from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. Early life Kirkham was born Mildred Eakes in Hermitage, Tenne ...
– vocals * Dolores Edgin – vocals *
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– vocals *
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– saxophone *Rufus Long – saxophone *
Scotty Moore Winfield Scott Moore III (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist who formed The Blue Moon Boys in 1954, Elvis Presley's backing band. He was studio and touring guitarist for Presley between 1954 and 1968. Rock critic ...
– guitar * Chip Young – guitar *
Charlie McCoy Charles Ray McCoy (born March 28, 1941) is a Grammy-winning American session musician, harmonica player, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Based in Nashville, McCoy's playing is heard on r ...
– guitar, bass, harmonica *
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pedal steel guitar *
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– piano * David Briggs – piano, organ *
Henry Slaughter Henry Thaxton Slaughter (January 9, 1927 – November 13, 2020) was an American Southern gospel pianist and singer-songwriter. He won five Dove Awards, and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Since the 1940s, he worked with such me ...
– piano, organ *
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*
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– double bass *
D. J. Fontana Dominic Joseph Fontana (March 15, 1931 – June 13, 2018) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years. In 1955, he was hired to play drums for Presley, which marked the beginning of a 15-year relationshi ...
– drums, tambourine *
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– drums,
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Charts


Accolades


Certifications


See also

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, author of the Swedish poem "O Store Gud"


References

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External links

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