"the artist had released where she has recorded covers of songs that could be considered the ""signature songs"" of several other artists, including Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler and Cat Stevens. Amazing Grace (Judy Collins album) Amazing Grace is an album by Judy Collins, released in 1985 by the UK record label Telstar. It was her first album after ending her 24-year association with Elektra and was recorded and released in 1985 in the UK as a Christmas offering. It has only been available in the United States as an import, although seven of the tracks can be"
"for Best Folk Performance. She enjoyed further success with her recordings of ""Someday Soon"", ""Chelsea Morning"", ""Amazing Grace"", and ""Cook with Honey"". Collins experienced the biggest success of her career with her recording of Stephen Sondheim's ""Send in the Clowns"" from her best-selling 1975 album ""Judith"". The single charted on the ""Billboard"" Pop Singles chart in 1975 and then again in 1977, spending 27 non-consecutive weeks on the chart and earning Collins a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, as well as a Grammy Award for Sondheim for Song of the Year. Collins was born the eldest"
"is most often associated with songs recorded by R&B artists of the 1950s and 60s, Rose Marie McCoy has written many jazz, pop, rock 'n' roll, country, and gospel songs. Jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott recorded nine of her tunes, and Sarah Vaughan recorded six of her songs, five of them on the singer's 1974 album ""Send in the Clowns""'. Many other artists have recorded some of the over 800 songs she published, including but not limited to: Pearl Bailey, Maxine Brown, Shirley Caesar, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Patti Page, Debbie Reynolds, Lenny Welch, Dinah Washington, Barbara Lewis, Del Shannon,"
"out for her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional Christian hymn ""Amazing Grace"", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad ""Send in the Clowns"" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), a recording of Joan Baez's ""A Song for David"", and her own compositions, such as ""Born to the Breed"". Collins guest starred on ""The Muppet Show"" in an episode broadcast in January 1978, singing ""Leather-Winged Bat"", ""I Know An Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly"", ""Do Re Mi"", and ""Send in the Clowns"". She also"
"New York City. Collins has received four Grammy Award nominations for Best Folk Performance or Folk Recording, one for Best Folk Album and one for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Stephen Sondheim won the 1976 Grammy Award for Song of the Year based on the popularity of Collins' performance of ""Send In The Clowns"" on her album ""Judith"". (The song was named ""Song of the Year"".) Other awards Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, show tunes,"
"used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots. It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named ""At the Cross"", not to ""New Britain"". ""Amazing Grace"" is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music. Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often"
"UK singles chart. ""Send in the Clowns"" originated in the 1973 Broadway musical ""A Little Night Music"" and won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The hit version of the song by Judy Collins first peaked at number 36 pop, number eight Easy Listening, and number six in the UK upon its initial release in 1975, and the reissue of her recording in 1977 that coincided with the release of the film version of the musical in the US made it to number 19 pop and number 15 Easy Listening. ""Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)"""
"Judith (album) Judith is American singer and songwriter Judy Collins' 12th studio album, released in 1975 by Elektra Records in both stereo (7E-1032) and CD-4 quadraphonic (EQ-1032) versions. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and is her best-selling studio album to date, achieving Platinum status in the mid 1990s. Collins received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for her cover of Stephen Sondheim's ""Send in the Clowns"". Sondheim won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year that same year, based on the popularity of Collins' performance of the song on"
"Platinum in 1996, for sales of over 1,000,000 copies. Judith (album) Judith is American singer and songwriter Judy Collins' 12th studio album, released in 1975 by Elektra Records in both stereo (7E-1032) and CD-4 quadraphonic (EQ-1032) versions. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and is her best-selling studio album to date, achieving Platinum status in the mid 1990s. Collins received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for her cover of Stephen Sondheim's ""Send in the Clowns"". Sondheim won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year that same year, based on"
"32-cent stamp with her image. The stamp can still be purchased with a CD and other gospel singers' stamps online. Ward's beautiful alto (with a distinctly nasal tone) in gospel songs and the Methodist hymns of the 18th century continues to delight music lovers. She had a marked influence on later singers, such as her protegee Aretha Franklin, who adopted her moan for secular songs and who saluted Ward in ""Amazing Grace"", the gospel album she made with James Cleveland in the early 1970s. Clara Ward Clara Mae Ward (April 21, 1924 – January 16, 1973) was an American gospel"
"Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin album) Amazing Grace is the fourth live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released on June 1, 1972 by Atlantic Records, it ultimately sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a double platinum certification. As of 2017, it stands as the biggest selling disc of Franklin's entire fifty-plus year recording career as well as the highest selling live gospel music album of all time. It won Franklin the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. The double album was recorded at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during"
"flower petals. She appeared on the cover of ""Time"" magazine in June. Franklin's success expanded during the early 1970s, during which she recorded the multi-week R&B number one ""Don't Play That Song (You Lied)"", as well as the top-ten singles ""Spanish Harlem"", ""Rock Steady"" and ""Day Dreaming"". Some of these releases were from the acclaimed albums ""Spirit in the Dark"" and ""Young, Gifted and Black"". She returned to Gospel music in a two-night, live-church recording, with the album, ""Amazing Grace"", in which she reinterpreted standards such as Mahalia Jackson's ""How I Got Over"". ""Amazing Grace"" sold more than two million"
"and moving it to alter her volume. She frequently used the song ""Send in the Clowns"" to demonstrate her vocal abilities in live performance. The performance was called ""three-octave tour de force of semi-improvisational pyrotechnics in which the jazz, pop and operatic sides of her musical personality came together and found complete expression"" by ""The New York Times"". Singers influenced by Vaughan include Phoebe Snow, Anita Baker, Sade, and Rickie Lee Jones. Singers Carmen McRae and Dianne Reeves both recorded tribute albums to Vaughan following her death; """" (1991) and """" (2001) respectively. Though usually considered a jazz singer, Vaughan"
"LP not to reach the Top 10. Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs is the fourth studio album by American country music artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in June 1966 on RCA Victor Records and was produced by Bob Ferguson. This album was Connie Smith's first Gospel recording and would set the trend for a series of Gospel releases she would issue in the next decade. Like previous country music recordings, ""Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs"" consisted of twelve tracks. Many of the album's songs were cover versions, including ""In the"
"the late 1960s traveled around the US as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program. She continued to make occasional performances during the 1970s. She died of cancer in Kingston, New Jersey, in 1988, at the age of 63. Cynthia Gooding Cynthia Gooding (August 12, 1924 – February 10, 1988) was an American folk singer who recorded traditional songs from various countries for Elektra Records in the 1950s and 1960s. Judy Collins wrote that she had been ""inspired"" by her. She was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. In her late teens she"
"Vincent apparently offering him a contract under the misapprehension that Marchan was female and releasing his record ""Give a Helping Hand"" under the pseudonym Bobby Fields. From 1957, Marchan also toured with the Clowns, the band led by Huey ""Piano"" Smith, sometimes performing as lead singer and bandleader in place of Smith, who reputedly would stay in New Orleans to write and record while his band played clubs and toured. The touring band included James Booker on piano. Marchan also recorded with the band, singing on Huey Smith and the Clowns' hit records ""Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,"""
"roots and sang in their churches. Artists in this genre include Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bessie Smith, with the most well-known being Aretha Franklin. Aretha Franklin gained prominence in the 1960s. Franklin signed her record deal at the age of eighteen after singing at her church in Detroit. She was most successful working with artists whose background stemmed from gospel music. She chose to follow this path and reinvented herself landing five number one hits and a Grammy. In 1967 and 1968, Franklin reached commercial success recording more than a dozen million-selling singles. Despite its role in popularising black culture, few"
"previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of ""Amazing Grace"" became the standard form of the song in American churches. With the advent of recorded music and radio, ""Amazing Grace"" began to cross over from primarily a gospel standard to secular audiences. The ability to record combined with the marketing of records to specific audiences allowed ""Amazing Grace"" to take on thousands of different forms in the 20th century. Where Edwin Othello Excell sought to make the singing of ""Amazing Grace"" uniform throughout thousands of churches,"
"first hit in 1974 and first No.1 the year after, the group entered and won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". To date, she is the only Welsh person to win Eurovision. For the next three years, the group regularly hit the chart and scored two more No.1 singles in the UK, ""Angelo"" and ""Figaro"". In addition to singing, Stevens is an amateur pianist, and performed the piano accompaniment to an otherwise a cappella recording of ""Send in the Clowns"" in 1978, which was featured on the band's ""Twenty Greatest"" album. In 1988,"
"Prentiss Barnes Prentiss Barnes (April 12, 1925October 1, 2006) was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1950s. Barnes was born in Magnolia, Mississippi. He sang bass for the legendary vocal group The Moonglows which had such hits as ""Sincerely"" and ""The Ten Commandments of Love"". Mentored by Alan Freed, the group’s doo-wop harmony style achieved great success on the national R&B charts and recorded on Chess Records. Barnes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He has also been inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, The Vocal Group Hall of Fame,"
"free. It just frees the spirit and frees the person."" The U.S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3,000 versions of and songs inspired by ""Amazing Grace"", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song. More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers (1963), the Byrds (1970), Elvis Presley (1971), Skeeter Davis (1972), Mighty Clouds of Joy (1972), Amazing Rhythm Aces (1975), Willie"
"the 1960s folk revival, and has been covered by many artists including Johnny Cash in his best-selling concert album ""At Folsom Prison"", by Dolly Parton on her ""9 to 5 and Odd Jobs"" album and by Travis himself, along with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in the landmark 1972 album ""Will the Circle Be Unbroken"". In spite of its initial lack of commercial success, ""Folk Songs of the Hills"", with added tracks, has remained in print virtually ever since. Travis was a popular radio performer throughout the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared on many country music television shows, co-hosting a"
"leading performer of soul ballads."" The most important female soul singer to emerge was Aretha Franklin, originally a gospel singer who began to make secular recordings in 1960 but whose career was later revitalised by her recordings for Atlantic. Her 1967 recordings, such as ""I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"", ""Respect"" (originally sung by Otis Redding), and ""Do Right Woman, Do Right Man"" (written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn), were significant and commercially successful productions. Soul music dominated the U.S. African-American music charts in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts"
"Nelson (1976), and the Lemonheads (1992). Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, ""Amazing Grace"" became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché. It has been mass-produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on ""The Simpsons"" to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies. It can also be sung to the theme from ""The Mickey Mouse Club"", as Garrison Keillor"
"The Stovall Sisters In the 1970s, the Stovall Sisters were a gospel trio of recording artists consisting of Lillian, Netta, and Joyce Stovall. Definitive works include the album ""The Stovall Sisters"" (Reprise Records 1970, Warner Music Group) which included the now funk/soul classic “Hang on in There.” They are also the featured background vocalists on the rock classic “Spirit In The Sky” (recorded by Norman Greenbaum, producer, Erik Jacobsen). Born in Kentucky and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Stovall Sisters, now known as Nettie Stovall, Lillian Jackson, and Rejoyce Moss, were three of the exceptionally large family of twenty-two children"
"Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The songs brought some of the musicians to tears during the sessions. But Shad wanted a hit, and the album yielded none. She sang a version of the pop hit ""Rainy Days and Mondays"" by the Carpenters for ""Feelin' Good"". This was followed by ""Live in Japan"", her first live album since 1963. ""Sarah Vaughan and the Jimmy Rowles Quintet"" (1974) was more experimental, containing free improvisation and some unconventional scatting. ""Send in the Clowns"" was another attempt to increase sales by breaking into the pop music market. Vaughan disliked the songs"
"another song introduced by Clark on this album: ""Call Me"", was reached the US Top 30 via a cover by Chris Montez. Another album cut: ""Strangers and Lovers"", is noteworthy as the song Helen Reddy chose to compete with in the televised talent show she won in 1965, her victory marking her move from Australia to the US. ""The In Crowd"" was also recorded in 1965 by Dobie Gray, whose version charted in the top-twenty in the U.S. and top-thirty in the U.K. The album was released on compact disc by Sequel Records in 1994. It includes four bonus tracks:"
"2006 from complications of a stroke and diabetes. He is survived by his wife, children, and grandchildren. King Floyd King Floyd (February 13, 1945 – March 6, 2006) was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter, best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970, ""Groove Me"". King Floyd III was born in New Orleans in 1945. His musical career started as a singer at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street. Following a stint in the army, Floyd went to California, where he joined up with record producer Harold Battiste. His debut album, ""A Man In Love,"" featuring songs co-written with"
"is one of the most recognisable songs in the English-speaking world. Author Gilbert Chase writes that it is ""without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns"", and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually. It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic African American spiritual. Its universal message has been a significant factor in its crossover into secular music. ""Amazing Grace"" saw a resurgence in popularity in the U.S. during the 1960s and has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th"
"avoided classifying herself as one. She discussed the term in a 1982 interview for ""Down Beat"": I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and"
"the Australian rock band AC/DC. ""Lost in This Moment"" was covered on Keith Anderson's second album, ""C'mon!"". Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace is the third studio album by American country music duo Big & Rich. It was released on June 5, 2007. The album's lead-off single ""Lost In This Moment,"" became the duo's first Number One single on the Hot Country Songs chart. Also released from this album were the title track and ""Loud"", which respectively peaked at No. 37 and No. 42 on the same chart. The latter was the first single"
"Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, actress, and pianist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career recording for Columbia Records. However, she achieved only modest success. She found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as ""Respect"", ""Chain of Fools"", ""Think"", ""(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"", ""I Never Loved"
"Dobie Gray Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit songs included ""The 'In' Crowd"" in 1965 and ""Drift Away"", which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, sold over one million copies, and remains a staple of radio airplay. He was born near Houston, Texas. His birth name was most likely Lawrence Darrow Brown, listed in Fort Bend County birth records as being born in 1940 to Jane and Jethro C. Brown. Other sources suggest"