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List Price: $34.99 | | Label: BMG / Elvis
Salesrank: 1595
Released: September 12, 2000 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Peace In The Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings Track Listing:
Disc 1:
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
Disc 2:
1. Only Believe
2. He Touched Me
3. I've Got Confidence
4. Amazing Grace
5. Seeing Is Believing
6. He Is My Everything
7. Bosom of Abraham
8. Evening Party
9. Lead Me, Guide Me
10. There Is No God But God
11. Thing Called Love
12. I, John
13. Reach Out to Jesus
14. Miracle of the Rosary
15. Put Your Hand in the Hand
16. I Got a Feelin' in My Body
17. Help Me
18. If That Isn't Love
19. Help Me
20. Why Me Lord? [Live]
21. How Great Thou Art [Live]
22. Farther Along
23. Oh Happy Day
24. I, John
25. Bosom of Abraham
26. You Better Run
27. Lead Me, Guide Me
28. Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus/Nearer My God to Thee
Peace In The Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings Reviews:
best spiritual music you could hear 
2009-09-28 - I had this in cassette, but don't have a cassette player anymore. I was so glad to see Amazon had it and at a very reasonaable price. I listen to it quite often. thank you deb
Excellent! 
2009-07-24 - I gave this as a gift to my dad for Father's Day. He absolutely loved it!
Elvis At His Best
2009-06-13 - No one sings gospel like Elvis Presley. I was never interested in gospel music until I heard this CD. 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
2009-05-17 - A miraculous RCA/BMG production, of course containing the three E.P. 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
2009-04-29 - Thank you for having this - it was what my daddy wanted.
It was in good shape as promise
thanks
