Favorite version of Amazing Grace?

[pinkoos]

What's yours? So far, I like these:

Judy Collins

Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues

and pretty much any bagpipe version out there.

[mrbigstuff]

Mahalia Jackson.

If you don't get goose pimples or tear up after hearing her version, you had better check for a pulse.

[August West]

The one they ain't singing for me, brother!

[cbelt3]

ANYthing with Bagpipes. Sung or just piped. My eyes tear up, my hair stands on end, my face takes a bluish cast from the battle paint, my slacks turn into a kilt, I can feel the hilt of my ancestral claymore in my hands, taste the smoke of the fire and cannon , and and smell the stench of battle in the Highlands.

[SKYLANE]

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. )

[pinkoos]

cbelt3 wrote:
ANYthing with Bagpipes. Sung or just piped. My eyes tear up, my hair stands on end, my face takes a bluish cast from the battle paint, my slacks turn into a kilt, I can feel the hilt of my ancestral claymore in my hands, taste the smoke of the fire and cannon , and and smell the stench of battle in the Highlands.

So basically you turn into him:

[ztirffritz]

[msglee]

Nana Mouskouri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPR7bDRv6A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFLyQrTB0i0

[Ombligo]

I have never heard a bad version of Amazing Grace.. even a tone-deaf mute can perform a moving version of the song. It is perhaps the greatest piece of music ever recorded.

[cbelt3]

That and "Danny Boy". My cousin sang that for our grandfather's funeral. She has a beautiful soprano voice (and a PhD). When she finished the church was transcendently still for minutes. I have NO idea how she did it. We sang Amazing Grace over my father's grave... I completely lost the ability to sing at the start of the second verse.

I've made it clear that Amazing Grace WILL be played at my funeral. I should probably make it clear that Led Zeppelin should be played at the party afterwards, where they drink up all my leftover whiskey.