How Great Thou Art (album)

Infobox Album | Name = How Great Thou Art
Type = Album
Artist = Elvis Presley

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Released = 20 February 1967
Recorded = 25—28 May, 1966
Genre = Gospel
Length = 34:38
Label = RCA Victor
Producer = Felton Jarvis
Reviews =
* " [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:qna9kemt7q7m All Music Guide] " Rating|4.5|5
Last album = "Spinout"
(1966)
This album = "How Great Thou Art"
(1967)
Next album = "Double Trouble"
(1967)

"How Great Thou Art" is a musical album by the American singer Elvis Presley; it was his first non-soundtrack album recording of new material since 1962's "Pot Luck" and his first album release not to include "any" soundtrack recordings since "His Hand in Mine" (1960). "How Great Thou Art" was Presley's second full-length gospel LP and won a Grammy Award in 1967 in the Best Sacred Performance category [ [http://www.grammys.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx?title=&winner=elvis%20presley&year=0&genreID=0&hp=1 GRAMMY Winners Search ] ] . The album reached #18 on Billboard album charts.

Although Elvis Presley prepared for this recording session months in advance, most of the songs on the album were last minute choices. Sessions took place at RCA Studios in Nashville between 25th and 28th of May, 1966. The thirteenth track, "Crying in the Chapel", was recorded back in October 1960 for his first gospel album, "His Hand in Mine", but was not released in fact until 1965 when it came out as a single and scored a hit.

The producer of this album was Felton Jarvis. Presley got along so well with him that he asked him to produce all his future recording sessions. Fact|date=October 2007 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.Fact|date=October 2007

Track listing

# "How Great Thou Art" (Stuart K. Hine, original by Carl Boberg)
# "In The Garden" (C. Austin Miles)
# "Somebody Bigger Than You and I" (Sonny Burke, Hy Heath, John Lange)
# "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" (James B. Coats)
# "By and By" (Traditional, arranged by Elvis Presley)
# "If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side" (Henry Slaughter)
# "Run On" (Traditional, arranged by Elvis Presley)
# "Where No One Stands Alone" (Mosie Lister)
# "Crying In The Chapel" (Artie Glenn)

The 1990s CD reissue of the album added "Peace in the Valley", recorded by Presley in 1957, as a bonus track.

References

* [http://www.sergent.com.au/elvis/1960.html Elvis Presley Discography]
* Roy Carr & Mick Farren, "Elvis the Illustrated Record" (Harmony Books, 1982), pp. 97, 106-107.

ee also

"How Great Thou Art" (hymn)

Carl Boberg, Swedish author of "O Store Gud" (translated as "How Great Thou Art")