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Hymns (Tennessee Ernie Ford album)

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Released
  
1957

Label
  
Capitol

This Lusty Land!(1955)
  
Hymns(1956)

Genre
  
Gospel

Producer
  
Lee Gillette

Hymns(1956)
  
Ol' Rockin' Ern(1957)

Hymns is an album recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford that was released in 1956. It was the second best selling record in the United States in 1957. The album is one of the best selling of all time and spent 277 weeks on the Billboard 200.

Contents

The album appeared the same year that Ford launched his 5-year NBC television series, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He closed each episode with a hymn.

In May 2013, the album was featured on the Christian website Ship of Fools, where people were asked to provide captions to the cover picture. The price sticker shown was $2.00. The first caption read, "You could have any colour of Ford you liked - as long as it was Black", an allusion to the Henry Ford comment about the Ford Model T.

Side 1

  1. "Who At My Door Is Standing"
  2. "Rock of Ages"
  3. "Softly and Tenderly"
  4. "Sweet Hour of Prayer"
  5. "My Task"
  6. "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning"

Side 2

  1. "The Ninety and Nine"
  2. "The Old Rugged Cross"
  3. "When They Ring the Golden Bells"
  4. "In the Garden"
  5. "Ivory Palaces"
  6. "Others"

References

Hymns (Tennessee Ernie Ford album) Wikipedia
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