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The How Great Thou Art Sessions FTD-184 (506020 975171) August 2023
Deluxe Sessions Package, with five CDs containing RCA's May and June 1966 recording sessions.

CD1  
The Album
1. How Great Thou Art
2. In The Garden
3. Somebody Bigger Than You And I
4. Farther Along
5. Stand By Me
6. Without Him
7. So High
8. Where Could I Go But To The Lord
9. By And By
10. If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side
11. Run On
12. Where No One Stands Alone
June 8 1966 Single
13. Love Letters
14. Come What May
October 24 1966 Spinout Bonus Songs
15. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
16. Down In The Alley
17. I'll Remember You
November 15 1966 Single A-Side
18. If Every Day Was Like Christmas
January 10 1967 Single
19. Indescribably Blue
20. Fools Fall In Love
Unused Recording
21. Beyond The Reef (original overdubbed master)

CD2  
The May 1966 Sessions
1. Run On (1, 2)
2. Run On (3, 4, 5, 6)
3. Run On (7, 8 - master)
4. How Great Thou Art (1, 2)
5. How Great Thou Art (3, 4 - master)
6. Stand By Me (1, 2)
7. Stand By Me (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
8. Stand By Me (8, 9, 10)
9. Stand By Me (11 - master)
10. Where No One Stands Alone (1)
11. Where No One Stands Alone (2, 3)
12. Where No One Stands Alone (4)
13. Where No One Stands Alone (work part - 1, 2, 3, 4)
14. Where No One Stands Alone (work part - 5)
15. Where No One Stands Alone (work part - 6)
16. Where No One Stands Alone (master - spliced from takes 4 & 1)

CD3  
The May 1966 Sessions (continued)
1. Down In The Alley (1)
2. Down In The Alley (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
3. Down In The Alley (7, 8, 9 - master)
4. Tomorrow Is A Long Time (1, 2)
5. Tomorrow Is A Long Time (3 - master)
6. Love Letters (1, 2)
7. Love Letters (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
8. Love Letters (8)
9. Love Letters (9 - master)
10. So High (1)
11. So High (2, 3)
12. So High (4 - master)
13. Farther Along (1, 2)
14. Farther Along (master - spliced from take 3 & one line from take 2) (see note)
15. By And By (1, 2, 3, 4)
16. By And By (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
17. By And By (10 - master)

CD4  
The May 1966 Sessions (continued)
1. In The Garden (1, 2, 3 - master)
2. Beyond The Reef (1, 2 - undubbed master)
3. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
4. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (9, 10, 11)
5. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (12)
6. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (13, 14, 15)
7. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (16)
8. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (work part - 1, 2, 3, 4)
9. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (work part - 5)
10. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (work part - 6)
11. Somebody Bigger Than You And I (master - composite of take 16 & work part take 6)
12. Without Him (1)
13. Without Him (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
14. Without Him (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
15. Without Him (15 - master)
16. If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side (1)
17. If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side (2, 3, 4)
18. If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side (5 - master)
19. If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side (6)
20. Where Could I Go But To The Lord (1, 2 - master)

CD5  
The May 1966 Sessions (continued)
1. Come What May (1, 2)
2. Come What May (3, 4)
3. Come What May (5, 6)
4. Come What May (7)
5. Come What May (8 - master)
6. Fools Fall In Love (1, 2, 3, 4)
7. Fools Fall In Love (5 - master)
The June 1966 Sessions
8. Indescribably Blue (track) (take 7 & work part - takes 1, 2)
9. I'll Remember You (track) (17, 18, 19 - track master)
10. If Every Day Was Like Christmas (track) (5, 6, 7, 8, 9 - track master)
11. Indescribably Blue (vocal overdub) (1)
12. Indescribably Blue (vocal overdub) (2, master)
13. I'll Remember You (vocal overdub) (1)
14. I'll Remember You (vocal overdub) (2)
15. I'll Remember You (vocal overdub) (3)
16. I'll Remember You (unedited master - spliced from vocal overdub takes 1 & 3)
17. If Every Day Was Like Christmas (vocal overdub) (1, 2 - undubbed master)

Notes

Produced by Ernst Mikael Jørgensen & Roger Semon / Mastered & Mixed by Sebastian Jeansson & Vic Anesini.

Although slightly edited, this CD set is the best source for these recording sessions, where everything has been restored and remastered from scratch.

The line from Take 3 of 'Farther Along' was physically cut from the session tape reel, disgarded, and replaced with the same line from Take 2, meaning the complete Take 3 now does not exist on tape.

Takes 5, 6 and 7 of the instrumental track to 'If Every Day Was Like Christmas' are not listed on this set, although they are included before take 8 (CD5, track 10).