Amazing Grace
Judy Collins didn't write a note of it, produce a hook onto it, or add a single instrument — and her 1970 a cappella 'Amazing Grace' still became a transatlantic hit. The whole achievement is in what she chose not to do.
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Amazing Grace
Released November 1, 1970
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Amazing Grace
Where Judy Collins made 'Amazing Grace' smaller to get it out of the church, Aretha Franklin went the other way — stretching the hymn to nearly eleven minutes in front of a Los Angeles congregation and turning it into the definitive gospel reading of the song.
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