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Elvis: How Great Thou Art. Super rare, sealed, mono version (1967). 1st Grammy.
Sold Date:
January 20, 2025
Start Date:
December 26, 2023
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This sealed, mono version of Elvis’ “How Great Thou Art” is super, super rare. It’s a must have for any Elvis collection. He won his first of three Grammy’s in 1968 in the category of Best Sacred Performance for this album. If you check Discogs, you will not be able to find a sealed,mono version anywhere in the world with LPM-3758 on the bottom left of the cover, last I checked. So good-luck to the Elvis collector who purchases this album!
Background:
How Great Thou Art was released in February 1967. Billboard qualified the release as"great," while the review remarked that the songs pointed to the where Presley "got his style of singing." Meanwhile, Cashbox felt that Presley sang the tunes in a "feelingful, sincere manner." The St. Petersburg Times called it a"considerable success," while The News Journal considered it Presley "at his versatile best." The reviewer concluded that How Great Thou Art was "good listening," and that Crying in the Chapel presented Presley in "near his best."
The album reached number 18 on the Billboard 200 and number seven on the Top Country Albums chart. On March19, 1967, on Palm Sunday, Parker made a deal for the album to be played on276 stations across the United States, while in cases six stations on the same area joined the program. Parker gave three minutes for the sponsoring of local charities to the announcers of each station and a national spot for the Red Cross during the broadcast.
The same year, on December 3rd, Parker included songs of the album in a similar Christmas broadcast that comprehended 2,000 stations. By February 1968,the album was certified gold by the RIAA.
By the following decade, the title-track became part of his usual repertoire in concerts. One 1974 performance, for the album Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis, would also win the Grammy for this category, as would his 1972 album, He Touched Me.
All three Grammys won by Presley during his lifetime were for his gospel/sacred recordings.
Sealed. Mint condition.
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