Hymns (Tennessee Ernie Ford album)

Hymns
Studio album by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Released	1957
Genre	Gospel
Label	Capitol
Tennessee Ernie Ford chronology
This Lusty Land! (1955) Hymns (1956) Ol' Rockin' Ern (1957)

Hymns is an album recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford that was released in 1956. It was the second best selling record in the United States in 1957. The album is one of the best selling of all time and spent 277 weeks on the Billboard 200.

The album appeared the same year that Ford launched his 5-year NBC television series, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He closed each episode with a hymn.

In May 2013, the album was featured on the Christian website Ship of Fools, where people were asked to provide captions to the cover picture. The price sticker shown was $2.00. The first caption read, "You could have any colour of Ford you liked - as long as it was Black",^[1] an allusion to the Henry Ford comment about the Ford Model T.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Who At My Door Is Standing"
2. "Rock of Ages"
3. "Softly and Tenderly"
4. "Sweet Hour of Prayer"
5. "My Task"
6. "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning"

Side 2

1. "The Ninety and Nine"
2. "The Old Rugged Cross"
3. "When They Ring the Golden Bells"
4. "In the Garden"
5. "Ivory Palaces"
6. "Others"

References

1. shipoffools.com Caption Competition, 10 May 2013, accessed 14 July 2013