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Australian singles chart:
Amazing Grace entered the Kent charts on 22 February 1971 and peaked at #10. The song was #62 on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
The song is on Whales & Nightingales which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 12 April 1971 and peaked at #26.
Songwriter:
John Newton
Arranged and adapted by Judy Collins
Producer:
Mark Abramson
BONUS TRACK BELOW – the bagpipe version!
Wikipedia:
Amazing Grace is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written in 1772 by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton.
Folk singer Judy Collins knew the song from a young age. She decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection. Judy, who had a history of alcohol abuse, claimed that the song was able to “pull her through” to recovery.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version in 1972, featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe band. Their arrangement was based on Judy’s.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace
Lyrics:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I′m found
Was blind, but now I see
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BONUS TRACK
Amazing Grace by The Pipes and Drums and the Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
The single entered the Kent charts on 24 April 1972 and was a #1 hit. It was #6 on the Top 100 of 1972.
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