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Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - DP - 06-18-2013
August West wrote:
The one they ain't singing for me, brother!
Amen!
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Mike Johnson - 06-18-2013
The Jessye Norman one in the Bill Moyers' special hal linked to -- I saw that documentary what, fifteen, twenty years ago? It is an amazing 80 minutes. I just ordered the DVD -- thanks hal!
Anyhow, there's also a lovely recording of Don Edwards and and Waddie Mitchell -- Don Edwards is playing Amazing Grace on the guitar while Waddie Mitchell recites "Bronco Twister's Prayer" by cowboy poet Bruce Kiskaddon. (There's a bad video of it on YouTube, as well as a ripoff by somebody who should know better. You can buy a much better version on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bard-balladeer-live-from-cowtown/id358085864 )
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Buck - 06-18-2013
msglee wrote:
Nana Mouskouri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPR7bDRv6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFLyQrTB0i0
Ditto on Nana
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Buck - 06-18-2013
DP wrote:
[quote=August West]
The one they ain't singing for me, brother!
Amen! :oldfogey:
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - vision63 - 06-18-2013
mrbigstuff wrote:
Mahalia Jackson.
If you don't get goose pimples or tear up after hearing her version, you had better check for a pulse.
I vote for this one too! Though I love Judy Collins' version and especially love Aretha's version on her "Amazing Grace" album. About to check out Cat Power's version.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - kj - 06-18-2013
The most interesting to me is the Daniel Lanois/Aaron Neville one, although I bet it's either like or hate for most people (it's weird). Amazing grace is one of two songs I always have room in my head for a new rendition of (Take Five is the other). I'll have to check out all the versions. kj.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Don C - 06-19-2013
Well, there goes another half hour to YouTube!
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Blankity Blank - 06-19-2013
I can't say where it exists. It was a clip in some special I was watching on Aretha Franklin. It was from way back, early on when she was still singing in a choir. Young and with that raw talent of a legend in the making. Pipes that were far beyond anything you'd ever expect to be in a mere mortal.
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - NewtonMP2100 - 06-19-2013
the unspoken one [ the one that is never sung ].........????
Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace? - Thrift Store Scott - 06-19-2013
Words from "Amazing Grace" sung to the music of "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals (including the organ parts).