Supported By WordPress. Friday, November 12, Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here. You have entered an incorrect email address! He finished writing the song with arranger Matthew Brownie and recorded a version for his album Thirsty. The track went on to the Grammy for Best Gospel Song. In Whitney Houston recorded her own stirring version for the soundtrack of the musical Sparkle. Dorsey and is one of the most covered songs in the canon. He was joined by actress and singer Antonique Smith.
Kirk Franklin: Wanna Be Happy? Her album Heart. This is energetic, modern gospel at its most passionate. Although they divorced in , the song she had first sung in — on the album Love Alive: Walter Hawkins and The Love Center Choir — remained a firm favorite. Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven. Perhaps the most famous recent version, though, was by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which used a variation of the name for their all-star bluegrass and country-western album in The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in It went to the top of the country charts for ten weeks.
As anyone familiar with The Bible knows, there are plenty of passages that mention doves, and the lyrics reference a number of them. It was first released by Jackson on the album, Precious Memories , a record that saw Jackson exploring his love of gospel. I saw the light by. Hank Williams. Peace in the Valley by Johnny Cash.
Gray Stone Chapel by Johnny Cash. Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore. Amazing Grace by Ray Charles??????? Who thinks these things up?????????????????? Bah Humbug. I agree with you, have the best Gospel cd by Elvis. Talented on so many levels, Gurrumul resonates deep with music lovers the world over. Too many white non-gospel artists on this list. This is a bullshit list. It is not just one of the best spiritual songs but one of the best songs ever!!
It is a tragedy that he left us at such an early age. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search uDiscover Music. Joseph Ham August 23, at am. Number Two — Say it Simply. Too many words spoil the soup. Beginning songwriters can suffer from the misconception that a sophisticated song needs more words. On the contrary, the very best, most sophisticated lyrics have been pared down to the absolute bare minimum.
It has wonderfully interesting chord changes and a great melody, and the lyric is exquisite perfection; simple and to the point. It is much harder to write a simple song than it is to write a complex one. Simple songs take work. Inspiration must give way to craft. You start with a great idea. The lyric and the melody seem to fit well together. You write loads of words over an evolving chord progression. You fill up a couple of pages with ideas.
Now you must carve away at it until there is nothing left but what belongs. You may have to omit lyrics you really like. You still have the lyrics. Save them. That is, I have three completely different versions of the same song. The first two are okay. I might use the lyrics another time, but they did not communicate what I was trying to say.
The first verse of the first version went like this;. So I wrote version 2;. Closer, but it lacked any wit. The title has a bit of immediate, joyful word-play about it that this lyric just did not have. So onto another idea. These two had taken nearly six years to write, mostly because I had to let each idea fade before I could start on the next one. Finally, I had an idea for version 3;.
This after six years. But I finally had something that pleased me. You will, too. Be ruthless with your own words. Number Three- No Explanation Needed. This is not to say that your lyric may not have a deeper meaning if the listener knows the circumstances of its creation. There are many very cool songs that are even cooler to the ones that have the inside story.
Hopefully, more people will hear your song than you would have time to explain it to. Let the lyric speak for itself. Speak it in the rhythm of the melody to make sure the emphasis of the melody is falling in the same place that the emphasis of the sentence should be. Make sure your melody supports the One Thing your lyric is about.
Remember also that songs are not just poems set to music. Most poems must be altered, even if only slightly, to conform them to a workable, singable melody. This is very important. Perhaps I should have made it number two or three. Try to determine as soon in the song-writing process who the audience is for this song. Are you writing to yourself, God, the Church, an unbeliever individual , unbelievers plural , a wayward Christian, your wife, a lost loved one?
Do NOT change audiences in the middle of the song.
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