You're listening to Aretha Franklin sing "Amazing Grace" with James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir from the 1972 album 'Amazing Grace'.

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Amazing Grace is a live gospel album by American soul singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptish Church in Los Angeles, with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance. The recording was originally released as a double album on June 1, 1972, by Atlantic Records.

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Album · 1972 · 27 Songs. Here Franklin liberates her vocals-tricking out traditional gospel standards with secular grooves and bluesy rock flourishes, as on the uptempo How I Got Over -and leads a swelling choir on What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Live) Aretha Franklin. Listen on Apple Music.

The original 1972 album contained just 14 tracks, culled from two live performances with the Southern California Community Choir, Ken Lupper, and the Rev. James Cleveland at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Fans have long wished for the release of the two complete concerts - which is exactly what Rhino's Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings gives them

In January 1972, Aretha Franklin joined forces with the Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir to make Amazing Grace, a double live album recorded during two church services at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Aretha Franklin’s Belated Amazing Grace May Be the Greatest Movie About Gospel Music Ever Made.

Amazing Grace, the documentary about the making of what would become the best-selling live gospel album, spends 87 minutes giving viewers a chance to see the woman known just as Aretha go back to her roots. Granted, every song she did she did her way, but more so with ‘Amazing Grace. Aretha Franklin interacts with James Cleveland’s Southern California Community Choir while recording her Amazing Grace album at a Los Angeles Baptist church in 1972. Photo courtesy of NEON. The long-awaited documentary was delayed for almost five decades in part because of technical issues: The film and its accompanying sound were not synchronized when the recording was made.

The Southern California Community Choir, decked out in shiny silver vests, is led by its enthusiastic conductor the Rev Alexander Hamilton. The remainder of the group include top session men, such as Bernard Pretty Purdie on drums and Chuck Rainey on bass. But this isn’t a studio, it’s a church loaded with sound gear and a team of cameramen buzzing around. At the halfway mark comes an astounding rendition of Amazing Grace that is stretched out to nearly 11 minutes. The camera moves across the faces of the choir, who are first to leap to their feet in support. Then the audience, then Cleveland, who moves from teary to full-on sobbing. Franklin lets Cleveland do the talking for her on night one, but on night two there’s a visit from her father, who doesn’t just give a touching speech, he comes up to mop her brow when the sweat gets too much.

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