Sunday, May 13, 2012

What a Friend we Have in Jesus by Ella Fitzgerald



Notes from YouTube:

"O, what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer." Indeed the truth. How great can our peace be if we make prayer our first line of action instead of a route we follow "when all else fails."

The words to this hymn were written by Joseph M. Scriven for his mom in 1855 who were across the ocean from him at the time. In 1868, Charles C. Converse composed the music that accompanied it.

Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of this timeless hymn is one of my personal favourites, mainly for her "smooth as velvet' voice.


1 comment:

Ron Moorby said...

The best singer ever in my humble opinion and a very moving piece; thank you very much for posting this.