Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances
Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances is a two-disc compilation of studio master recordings by Elvis Presley, released in 1994 on RCA Records and certified double platinum by the RIAA on July 15, 1999. The release also includes a booklet with session details and an essay by Charles Wolfe. Contents. The set, catalogued as number 66421-2, comprises recordings of gospel music made by Presley during his career. The contents of all three gospel albums Presley released in his lifetime are included, while other songs had appeared on singles, an extended play single , and other albums. The set also contains five previously unreleased selections, and the two discs present the studio masters in chronological session order. Disc one contains the entirety of his two albums released respectively in 1960 and 1967, "His Hand In Mine" and "How Great Thou Art". The other five tracks contain the four-song EP "Peace in the Valley" from 1957, incorporated later that year into his first Christmas album, and the 1965 hit single "Crying in the Chapel" which reached No. 3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Disc two contains the entirety of his 1972 album "He Touched  Me", with the five previously unreleased selections derived from a jam session captured on March 31, 1972, during the filming for "Elvis on Tour". The songs "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "We Call On Him" were released as two sides of a single in time for Easter in 1968, and "Only Believe" and "Help Me" appeared as b-sides of singles in the 1970s but were excluded from the discs compiling his complete singles from that decade. The remaining five tracks appeared on Presley albums released during the 1970s, the songs "How Great Thou Art" and "Why Me Lord