Prayer of Thanksgiving

Music and lyrics attributed to Edward Kremser

Translated into English by Theodore Baker

With Mixed Chorus

Conducted by Mitchell Ayres

with Organ Accompaniment by Charles Marie Courboin

Recorded at The Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City

Produced by Charles Grean

Recording Time 2:37

Recorded June 29, 1950 ~ Matrix No. E0VB - 4937 Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78RPM-20-3852

RCA-45RPM 47-3852 ( 1950 )

Single Flip Side: "Rock of Ages"

Album issue: RCA-45RPM-EP "Favorite Songs of Worship" EPA-293 MONO 1952

Album issue: CAM-LP12 "The Lord's Prayer" CAS-2299 ELECTRONIC STEREO 1969

Perry Como Sings His Favorite Songs of Worship

The tune KREMSER is named after a Viennese composer, Edward Kremser (1838-1914). He found the melody and its anonymous patriotic text in a collection of Dutch folk songs. He translated the text into German and used the melody to fashion the hymn in 1877. Theodore Baker (1851-1934) worked from Kremser's German text to create an English translation, which he published in 1894.