Nearer My God To Thee

Nearer, My God To Thee

Music by Lowell Mason

with lyrics by Sarah F. Adams, 1840/41

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and Chorus under direction of Ray Charles

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Produced by Charles Grean

Final Recording Time 2:37

Recorded September 29, 1953 ~ Matrix No. E3VB-1987 Take 1

Single issue: RCA-45RPM 47-5573 ( 1953 )

Single Flip Side: "Abide With Me"

Original Album issue: RCA-LP10 "I Believe & Songs of All Faiths" LPM-3188 MONO 1953

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

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP "I Believe" EPA-5123 MONO 1960

Album reissue: RCA-LP12 "I Believe" LPE-1172 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1961

Album issue: Box Set "The Best of Perry Como" RD UK STEREO GBPC-6A 1971

Album re- issue: Pure Gold-LP12 "I Believe" ANL1- 1137 (e) ELECTRONIC STEREO 1975

1859 Hymns: "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary") by Charles Gounod (see 1859) who has based it on Johann Sebastian Bach’s first prelude in The Well-Tempered Clavichord of 1722; "Nearer My God to Thee" by Boston musician Lowell Mason, 67, lyrics by the late Sarah Adams who wrote them in 1840 or 1841.