Favorite version of Amazing Grace?

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Some of you really wanna see this: http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Moyers-Amazin...=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1371584956&sr=1-7&keywords=amazing+grace

It's one of the most popular and beloved songs in the English language. Transcending race, creed, geography, generation, and social station, Amazing Grace has been recorded more times than any other hymn and is widely credited with transforming lives. Written by John Newton, an English clergyman and former slave-ship captain, the poem was published in 1779 and took on its familiar tune during the Second Great Awakening in the United States.

In this inspiring program, Bill Moyers explores the song's origins and enduring power. Produced and directed by Emmy and Peabody winner Elena Mannes, this documentary features illuminating conversations and stirring performances by Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Jesse Norman, Marion Williams, the Boys Choir of Harlem, shape-note singers, prison inmates, and more. There are 24 renditions in all, no two alike, and each filled with emotion and conviction. With Jeremy Irons as the voice of John Newton.

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Judy Collins

and pretty much any bagpipe version out there.


Agreed.

I got a lot of Cat Power, but no Amazing Grace. I'll have to check that out.

I love pipes and have a lot of music by various pipers. But after the first funeral, it became almost too personal to bear, and never gets any easier. It could be that combined with the Missing Man formations, the song took on far more intensity than I would ever expect.

So I like the Judy Collins and Joan Baez renditions, but seldom listen to it with pipes.


I have never heard a bad version of Amazing Grace.. even a tone-deaf mute can perform a moving version of the song.

Agreed. It's a beautiful song, but I sometimes find it very difficult to listen to.

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Joan Baez

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SKYLANE wrote:
Amazing Grace...

My favorite arrangement of this song was in the movie soundtrack for "Maverick".

In Star Trek 2, there was a few bars of the song played via bagpipes when they shot Spock out through the missle tube, that was kind of cool sounding. (Been a long time since I saw the movie, hope I am not confusing that with a different tune. )

Yep, that's the one I remember. I was working in a movie theater projection booth. From there, I could see all these kleenexes appearing during that scene. That teared me up even more. Hearing it on bagpipes still chokes me up.

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The one that Skylane first mentions above; I love the bagpipes into the short orchestration used in STAR TREK II.

Link: (starts at around 1:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQUePN5y40

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Not to hijack the Amazing Grace theme, but...

This made me start thinking about all the different versions of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'. That's another interesting rabbit hole to explore. There are probably hundreds of different covers of that song. Jeff Buckley's is still my favorite though.

Leonard Cohen:
http://www.amazon.com/Hallelujah/dp/B001..._1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371587156&sr=8-1&keywords=leonard+cohen+hallelujah


Jeff Buckley:
http://www.amazon.com/Grace/dp/B00136JPB..._0?ie=UTF8&qid=1371587110&sr=8-1

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You guys haven't seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOfMP8cOZQ

Jeff

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Heard Judy sing this at an International convention in Toronto. Tasty.

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kj4btkljv wrote:
You guys haven't seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOfMP8cOZQ

Jeff

Re: Favorite version of Amazing Grace?
Posted by: Ombligo [PM] [Ignore this user]
Date: June 18, 2013 02:45PM
I have never heard a bad version of Amazing Grace.. even a tone-deaf mute can perform a moving version of the song.

You win...
Ombligo

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wow! that was almost as good as Rosie O'Donnell's SSB