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What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House)

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Released
  
February 1956

Label
  
RCA 47-6421

Format
  
7"

B-side
  
How Can You Refuse Him Now?

Recorded
  
January 9, 1956 RCA Victor Studio, Methodist Television, Radio and Film Commission Nashville, Tennessee

Genre
  
Country, country gospel

"What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House)" is a country gospel song, written by Yolanda Adams, Errol McCalla Jr., Jonathan Broussard and Marcus Ecby, and popularized in 1956 by up-and-coming country singer Porter Wagoner.

Wagoner's version reached No. 8 on the Billboard country charts in the spring of 1956, and was the higher of two competing chart versions released that year. Also in 1956, another up-and-coming country singer, Red Sovine, released his own version on Decca Records, which peaked at No. 15. For Sovine, although the main chorus – What would you do/if Jesus came to your house/to spend some time with you – is sung, it was one of his first songs that were spoken, as most of his later well-known songs were.

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