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Peace In The Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings

Elvis Presley - Peace In The Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings Audio CD

A fair review of the Elvis Presley "Peace In The Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Elvis Presley reviews here, or go back to the Elvis Presley tabs.

Band: Elvis Presley
Title: Peace In The Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings
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Release Date: 2000-09-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: His Hand in Mine 2: I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs 3: In My Father's House 4: Milky White Way 5: Known Only to Him 6: I Believe in the Man in the Sky 7: Joshua Fit the Battle 8: He Knows Just What I Need 9: Swing Down Sweet Chariot 10: Mansion over the Hilltop 11: If We Never Meet Again 12: Working on the Building 13: Crying in the Chapel 14: How Great Thou Art 15: In the Garden 16: Somebody Bigger Than You and I 17: Farther Along 18: Stand by Me 19: Without Him 20: So High 21: Where Could I Go But to the Lord 22: By and By 23: If the Lord Wasn't Walking by My Side 24: Run On 25: Where No One Stands Alone 26: We Call on Him 27: You'll Never Walk Alone 28: Who Am I? 29: Life 30: Only Believe 31: He Touched Me 32: I've Got Confidence 33: Amazing Grace 34: Seeing Is Believing 35: He Is My Everything 36: Bosom of Abraham 37: Evening Party 38: Lead Me, Guide Me 39: There Is No God But God 40: Thing Called Love 41: I, John 42: Reach Out to Jesus 43: Miracle of the Rosary 44: Put Your Hand in the Hand 45: I Got a Feelin' in My Body 46: Help Me 47: If That Isn't Love 48: Help Me 49: Why Me Lord? [Live] 50: How Great Thou Art [Live] 51: Farther Along 52: Oh Happy Day 53: I, John 54: Bosom of Abraham 55: You Better Run 56: Lead Me, Guide Me 57: Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus/Nearer My God to Thee 58: When the Saints Go Marching In 59: Just a Little Talk With Jesus 60: Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley 61: I Shall Not Be Moved 62: Peace in the Valley 63: Down by the Riverside 64: Farther Along 65: Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand) 66: On the Jericho Road 67: I Just Can't Make It by Myself 68: I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling 69: When the Saints Go Marching In 70: Softly and Tenderly 71: Peace in the Valley 72: It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) 73: I Believe 74: Take My Hand, Precious Lord 75: I Asked the Lord 76: He 77: Oh, How I Love Jesus 78: Show Me Thy Ways, O Lord 79: Hide Thou Me 80: Down by the Riverside/When the Saints Go Marchin' In 81: Sing You Children 82: Swing Down Sweet Chariot 83: Let Us Pray 84: Gospel Medley 85: Lord's Prayer 86: How Great Thou Art [Live] 87: Peace in the Valley

best spiritual music you could hear
I was so glad to see Amazon had it and at a very reasonaable price. I had this in cassette, but don't have a cassette player anymore. I listen to it quite often. thank you deb.

Excellent!
He absolutely loved it!. I gave this as a gift to my dad for Father's Day.

Elvis At His Best
I was never interested in gospel music until I heard this CD. No one sings gospel like Elvis Presley. You can tell from this cd that elvis really enjoyed singing gospel. All 3 cds are great. If you are not an elvis fan you might not like the 3rd CD since it is mostly recorded at sun studios in the 50's. A great value for your money.

Elvis at his most serious
P. A miraculous RCA/BMG production, of course containing the three E. Gospel albums, the 1957 Extended Play, and all the individual songs adorning the secular Presley releases. That pretty much covers the first two Discs; Disc Three is the *fun* one, with relevant selectioons from "The Million Dollar Quartet", and some priceless "fly on the wall" home performances - he's still *Elvis*, but he's as relaxed as he's gonna be, just singing his heart out with his friends. There's an extended version of "Saved" from the TV Special and an incredible solo on "The Lord's Prayer". He's firmly in Opera territory on this "informal" opus.
Some small onjections: there's no reason not to have the tunes in chronological order; there's no reason to include the *Inspirational* songs "I Believe", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Life", as engaging as they are. (I still can't forget an earlier Elvis Gospel collection which featured "Where Did They Go, Lord", which was *not* a Gospel song!); lastly, why include the 1956 home recording of "When The Saints Go Marching In" where after about 15 seconds it shifts into parody. It's not bad, as parodies go, with Elvis intentionally singing off-key, surely a dfifficult thing to pull off. It opens Disc Three. Well, it's still Elvis. . . and his does have his piano.
"His Hand In Mine" tracks open Disc One, recorded in late 1960. This appears to be a very personal tribute to the "Quartets", and by extension to the assembled choir right in the Nashville studio, as he defers to the song, the arrangement, and the singers, in a vocal approach almost devoid of mannerism - he stays in that falsetto range for the most part, rarely employing chest tone. It's a beautiful sound but one wonders how much greater some things like "Joshua Fit The Battle" or "Swing Down, Sweet Chariot" would have fared with more "signature" Elvis, shall we say. Another issue is in the mixing here, where Elvis' voice is basically isolated in the center. That, in itself, shouldn't *be* an issue, but where he steps back to let the Jordanaires have the spotlight, there's a sense of self-control which can be disconcerting to the listener: we get a small silence between his last note and the group's closing notes.
Interesting that the one song which was sent to the shelf, "Crying In The Chapel", became a huge international hit in 1965, and most likely instigated the "How Great Thou Art" album, released in '67!
That album is also on Disc One, to me a better album than "His Hand In Mine", A and R-wise and in performance. Once again, Presley's under-appreciated talent for arranging is a big part of this Grammy award winner. Although he's perhaps not in his best voice, and to my ears is projected from a slow running master tape, this album is a classic. I think RCA missed the boat when they didn't issue the title song on a single at the time. With Charlie Hodge's input, they got together a brilliant arrangement, which provided a platform for one of Elvis' greatest long high notes. His idol, Mario Lanza, would not have been unimpressed.
Disc Two has the 1972 "He Touched Me" album, his all-around best. I prefer the songs on the second album, but here Elvis' voice is strong, with almost none of the stylistic business as before. He soars on "I, John" and "Bosom Of Abraham" (aka "Rock A-My Soul"), and delivers a creative re-wording of "There Goes My Everything", with "He Is My Everything".
A very interesting time-line is detected with "Peace In The Valley". It appears that the jam session version from late '56 led to the Ed Sullivan rendition which led to the polsihed studio recording. Another one is with "When The Saints Go Marching In", twice in '56, then a movie soundtrack medley element. Then, of course, the "Farther Along" revisistation on "How Great Thou Art".
I deckine from 5 stars because of a somewhat monotonous sound on "His Hand In Mine" and a some tired tracks from "How Great Thou Art"; plus the few considerations mentioned above.

Elvis

It was in good shape as promise
thanks . Thank you for having this - it was what my daddy wanted.

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