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Certainly "How Great Thou Art" - I'm sure I've heard "The Old Rugged Cross" and "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" but I can't say they're in my active memory. So many hymns in our tradition - after thirty years of active choristing and cantoring I still encounter new music - not recently composed music, but new to me music from the established repertoire.



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48 posted on 08/25/2013 7:56:45 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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They are Country Gospel from The Rural South. I Believe Elvis recorded both of them at one time.

Both very gentle, sweet songs, but back when they were originally popular, were considered quite radical and wild for their time!

One of my all time favorites is “Holy, Holy, Holy”, beloved by both Catholics and Protestants and usually found on Page One of most old hymnals.


50 posted on 08/25/2013 8:04:39 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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