Ave Maria

Original Music by Franz Schubert

Public Domain

With Choir and Organ directed by Mitchell Ayres

and Ray Charles

Recorded at The Church of Incarnation, New York City

Produced by Charles Grean

Recording Time 4:40 P.D.

Recorded September 30, 1949 ~ Matrix No. D9VC - 1953 Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78RPM 12" 28-0436

RCA-45RPM 52-0071-A

Single Flip Side: "The Lord's Prayer"

US Chart Position No. 22

RCA Gold Standard Series 78/45-RPM-420/447-0110 ( F2PW-4296 ) May, 1955

Single Flip Side: "The Lord's Prayer"

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP "Songs of Faith" EPA-410 MONO 1953

Album issue: RCA-LP12 "I Believe" LPM-1172 MONO 1956

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP GOLD STANDARD "Songs of Faith" EPA-5142 MONO 1959

Album: RCA-AUSTRALIA EP GOLD STANDARD "Bless this House" RCA-20033 MONO

Ave Maria or Hail Mary, name given by Roman Catholics to a form of address to the Virgin Mary,

included in the Divine Office and in a few antiphons of the Mass. Ave Maria are the first two

words of the prayer that is taken from the salutation (see Luke 1:28) of the angel Gabriel,

traditionally worded: "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among

women." Appearing in varying forms as early as the 6th century in the Liturgy of St. James

and others, the Ave Maria was finally adopted as a popular devotion in the 11th century.

The present form was fixed by Pope Pius V in 1568 and has been used by the Roman

Catholic laity as widely as the Our Father, or Lord's Prayer.

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