Song “Amazing Grace” - MusicBrainz (original) (raw)

Annotation

The tune currently commonly associated with Amazing Grace is an anonymous folk tune.
This tune has been identified variously as, Harmony Grove (which for years had James Carrell and David Clayton misattributed as its composers) and also, New Britain to which William Walker set Newton's words.
"New Britain", (itself an amalgamation of two melodies "Gallaher" and "St. Mary") was published with the John Newton's lyrics by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw in 1829.

Annotation last modified on 2017-10-10 06:55 UTC.

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publisher: Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist and writer: John Newton (English poet) (in 1779)
additional composer: Edwin Othello Excell
composer: [anonymous] (special purpose artist)[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher: Carlin Music CorporationEMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated)Patterdale Music Ltd.Rokstone Music Ltd.Universal Classics & Jazz (Japanese label division - read the annotation before using!)Universal Music Publishing Group Japan (work publisher – do NOT use as a release label)イーエムアイ音楽出版 C・F事業部 (until 2021-06-30)ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
part of: Viisikielinen (Song book of "Viides herätysliike") (number: 94) (order: 3)
Wikidata: Q210211 [info]
referred to in medleys: But for Your Grace (with Amazing Grace)Waarheen, waarvoor (Mieke Telkamp song)
later translated versions: Amazing Grace (in Navajo)Amazing Grace (in Sioux)Eine Nacht, die ich nie mehr vergessen kannOn armo suuri, ihmeinenPererin WyfSo a SegenŽēlastībaアメイジング・グレイスアメイジング・グレイス
later versions: Amazing Grace (Heinz Gietz's arrangement of the hymn, ~1979)Amazing Grace (incl. 4th verse by Beecher-Stowe)
is the basis for: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)Amazing Grace (Jonathan Richman’s version)Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)C'est Noël, joie sur la Terre!Grace Flows DownGrace Like RainPrière (Amazing Grace)Your Amazing Grace仁愛的心奇異恩典
arrangements: Amazing Grace (Keith McCutchen's ~2005 arrangement of the hymn)Amazing Grace (John Rutter's arrangement of the popular hymn)Amazing Grace (Mark O’Connor arrangement)Amazing Grace (House of the Rising Sun arrangement)Amazing Grace (Yes arrangement)Amazing Grace (arrangement by Himes of the hymn, for brass band)Amazing Grace (for wind ensemble, Maldonado)Amazing Grace (arr. Daniel Lanois)Amazing Grace (Mullaney and Abbott's arrangement of the hym, ~1972)Amazing Grace (Ernie Rettino/Debby Kerner Rettino arrangement)Amazing Grace (Justin Bolger, O.P. arrangement)Amazing Grace (for piano, Walden)Amazing Grace (Destiny's Child version)Amazing Grace (Hamiet Bluiett/World Saxophone Quartet arrangement)Amazing Grace (Giddens/Turrisi version)Amazing Grace (Carla Bley arrangement)Amazing GraceAmazing Grace (arrangement by Rebecca Lynne, John Booth, and William Tillis)アメイジング・グレイス (Flute Ensemble Triptyque arrangement)アメイジング・グレイス (Michiaki Kato Arrangement)

Recordings

Date Title Attributes Artist Length
recordings
1947 Amazing Grace Mahalia Jackson 3:35
1951-02-21 Amazing Grace (1951-02-21) Sister Rosetta Tharpe with The Rosette Gospel Singers 3:26
1963-04-08 Amazing Grace Reno and Smiley 2:58
1971-03-15 Amazing Grace cover Elvis Presley 3:35
1971-03-15 Amazing Grace cover Elvis Presley 3:36
1971-03-15 Amazing Grace (alternate take 2) cover Elvis Presley 3:26
1971-03-15 Amazing Grace (takes 1 – 2) cover Elvis Presley 5:28
1971-05-13 Amazing Grace (live, 1971-05-13: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK) live The Byrds 2:31
1972-01-13 Amazing Grace (live, 1972-01-13: New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, USA) cover and live Aretha Franklin 16:11
1972-01-13 Amazing Grace (live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972) (single edit) cover and live Aretha Franklin 12:41
1972-01-13 Amazing Grace (live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972) (single edit) cover and live Aretha Franklin 12:41
1972-01-13 – 1972-01-14 Amazing Grace (live, 1972-01: New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, USA) cover and live Aretha Franklin 10:49
1972-11-16 Amazing Grace Hubert Laws 7:20
1973-03-17 Amazing Grace Tuneup / Introduction live and partial New Riders of the Purple Sage 1:25
1973-09-26 You Don’t Love Me / Amazing Grace (live, 1973: Winterland) cover, live and medley The Allman Brothers Band 10:49
1973-10 Borstal Boy / Amazing Grace live and medley [Rod Stewart / Faces](/artist/8c7a8406-f15a-408d-b0f6-23be813bdddc "Faces – Faces (successor of "Small Faces", members Rod Stewart, Ron Wood)") 9:57
1974-06-17 Amazing Grace Johnny Cash 2:28
1975-07 – 1975-08 Amazing Grace (live, 1975) live Joan Baez 4:26
1977-04-25 Amazing Grace instrumental Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan 4:23
1978-05 Amazing Grace instrumental Leroy Mack 2:35
1979-10-06 Medley: Some Have Fathers Over Yonder / In the Sweet By and By / Down at the Cross / Nearer My God to Thee / Amazing Grace / Mother's Not Dead medley Rev. Howard Finster 4:44
1979-12 Amazing Grace cover and instrumental Billy Lang 2:19
1980-09-20 – 1980-09-21 Amazing Grace Rose Maddox with The Vern Williams Band 5:00
1981-05 Amazing Grace The Ambrosian Singers, Jessye Norman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson 3:22
1982-05-03 Amazing Grace James Horner 1:28
1984 Amazing Grace live SKRUK & Suløen 4:42
1985-01-25 Amazing Grace (live, 1985-01-25: Ice Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden) live U2 1:36
1985-03-21 The Electric Co. (live, 1985-03-21: University of Illinois Pavilion, Chicago, IL, USA) cover, live and partial U2 8:36
1985-03-21 The Electric Co. cover, live and partial U2 8:35
1985-07-13 Amazing Grace (live, 1985-07-13: Live Aid 1985) cover and live Joan Baez 1:55
1985-07-13 Amazing Grace (live, 1985‐07‐13: Live Aid 1985, JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, USA) live Joan Baez 1:29
1985-07-13 Amazing Grace (live, 1985-07-13: Wembley Stadium, London, England, UK) cover Joan Baez 1:16
1985-11-24 Amazing Grace live Morriston Orpheus Choir 3:40
1986-01-07 Amazing Grace instrumental Chet Baker 3:42
1986-01-29 Gospel Favourites (Medley): Amazing Grace / I'll Fly Away / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / I Saw the Light (live, 1986-01-29: Church Street Station, Orlando, Florida) live and medley Tammy Wynette 4:33
1988-01 Amazing Grace David Murray 5:40
1989-12-01 Love Rescue Me / Amazing Grace cover, live and partial U2 6:12
1989 Amazing Grace cover Sissel Kyrkjebø 4:05
1991-04-09 Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐04‐09: Civic Centre, Pensacola, FL, USA) cover and live Yes 1:23
1991-04-09 Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐04‐09: Civic Centre, Pensacola, FL, USA) cover and live Yes 1:52
1991-04-17 Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐04‐17: Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 9:26
1991-04-17 Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐04‐17: Centrum, Worcester, MA, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 8:43
1991-04-20 Long Distance Runaround / Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐04‐20: Nassau Coliseum, New York, NY, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 12:52
1991-04-20 Whitefish / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐04‐20: Nassau Coliseum, New York, NY, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 9:36
1991-05-09 Whitefish / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐05‐09: McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 9:47
1991-05-09 Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐05‐09: McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 9:46
1991-05-31 Long Distance Runaround / Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐05‐31: Hanns‐Martin‐Schleyer‐Halle, Stuttgart, Germany) cover, live and medley Yes 13:41
1991-06-29 Long Distance Runaround / Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐06‐29: Wembley Arena, London, UK) cover, live and medley Yes 14:19
1991-07-15 Saving My Heart / Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐07‐15: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 14:42
1991-07-15 Whitefish / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐07‐15: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 10:03
1991-07-26 Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐07‐26: Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, USA) cover and live Yes 1:45
1991-08-08 Whitefish / Amazing Grace (5.1 mix) cover, live and medley Yes 10:47
1991-08-08 Whitefish / Amazing Grace (stereo mix) (live, 1991‐08‐08: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 10:47
1991-08-08 Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1991‐08‐08: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA) cover, live and medley Yes 10:03
1991-11-03 Amazing Grace cover and live Grateful Dead 5:06
1991-11-03 Amazing Grace (encore II) (live, 1991‐11‐03: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA) cover and live Grateful Dead ?:??
1991 Whitefish / Amazing Grace cover, live and medley Yes 9:58
1992-01-18 Amazing Grace Cyrus Chestnut Trio 6:21
1992-03-04 Whitefish / Tempus Fugit / Amazing Grace (live, 1992‐03‐04: Bunka Taiikukan, Yokohama, Japan) cover, live and medley Yes 9:23
1992-03 Amazing Grace Fats Domino 3:28
1992-12-23 Amazing Grace live Diana Ross, Wiener Symphoniker, Vjekoslav Šutej 5:46
1993-02-04 – 1993-02-05 Amazing Grace cover Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice 4:55
1993-02-04 – 1993-02-05 Amazing Grace Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice 5:18
1993-02-04 – 1993-02-05 Amazing Grace (run through) Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice 5:11
1993-02-19 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish 3:21
1993-05-03 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish 1:54
1993-05-08 Amazing Grace (live, 1993-05-08: UNH Fieldhouse, Durham, NH, USA) cover and live Phish 1:43
1993-05-08 Amazing Grace Jam (live, 1993-05-08: UNH Fieldhouse, Durham, NH, USA) cover and live Phish 5:19
1993-08-13 Amazing Grace (live; 1993-08-13: Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA) cover and live Phish 3:14
1993-08-16 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish 2:29
1993-09 Amazing Grace instrumental Carl Allen 4:23
1993 Amazing Grace cover Maureen McGovern 5:48
1994-05-07 Amazing Grace (live, 1994-05-07: The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX, USA) cover and live Phish 2:03
1994-06 Hymn Medley: Abide With Me / Just as I Am Without One Plea / What a Friend We Have in Jesus / Amazing Grace cover, instrumental and medley Charlie Haden & Hank Jones 7:37
1994-07 Amazing Grace instrumental J.J. Johnson 4:52
1994-10-31 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish 2:14
1994-11-30 Amazing Grace (live; 1994-11-30: Campus Recreation Center, Olympia, WA, USA) cover and live Phish 2:04
1994-12-31 Amazing Grace (live, 1994-12-31: Boston Garden, Boston, MA, USA) cover and live Phish 2:28
1995-06-14 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish ?:??
1995-06-20 Amazing Grace (live, 1995-06-20: Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA) cover and live Phish 2:19
1995-09 – 1996-11 Amazing Grace (live, 1995/1996: Buffalo, NY, USA) live Ani DiFranco 6:18
1995-11-30 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish 3:24
1995-12-07 Amazing Grace (live, 1995-12-07: Niagara Falls Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY, USA) cover and live Phish 2:56
1995-12-07 Amazing Grace (bootleg live, 1995-12-07: Niagara Falls Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY, USA) cover and live Phish 1:31
1995-12-23 Amazing Grace live and medley José Carreras, Natalie Cole, Plácido Domingo, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen, Wiener Symphoniker 3:43
1996-02 Amazing Grace instrumental Marcus Printup 2:38
1996-08-16 Amazing Grace cover and live Phish 2:56
1996-11-30 Amazing Grace (1996-11-30) cover and live Phish 6:07
1996-11-30 Amazing Grace / Amazing Grace instrumental cover and live Phish 6:07
1996-12-31 Amazing Grace (live, 1996-12-31: Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA) cover and live Phish ?:??
1996-12 Amazing Grace Gene Harris 4:13
1996 Amazing Grace (New Britain) Choir of York Minster 4:01
1997-12-05 Amazing Grace David Murray 5:53
1997 Amazing Grace cover Celtic Aire ?:??
1999-01-06 Amazing Grace cover Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker 2:01
1999-12-23 Amazing Grace live The Three Tenors 3:37
2000-03-03 Amazing Grace (live, 2000-03-03: House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA) cover, instrumental and live Dream Theater 4:34
2000-06 Amazing Grace Chœur O Musica 2:38
2000-07-09 Amazing Grace (live, 2000-07-09: Bospop, Sportpark Boshoven, Weert, Netherlands) cover and live Dream Theater 2:20
2002-02 Amazing Grace cover and instrumental Charles Lloyd 4:47
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