Lonnie Donegan
Sing Hallelujah
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AMG Review of Sing Hallelujah
Bruce Eder
All Music GuideDonegan's most Elvis-like album, singing mostly gospel and devotional music. Recorded in early 1962, this album features Donegan in the best vocal performance of his career, very nearly outdoing Elvis Presley as a singer or gospel songs. Denny Wright is back on guitar, but most of the material here is more opulent in its arrangements, featuring piano and a backing chorus (the Kestrels, including Roger Greenaway, sounding like the Jordanaires. Songs include "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen," "Born In Bethlehem," "Steal Away," Leadbelly's "Pick A Bale of Cotton," Sister Rosetta Tharpe's "This Train," and A. P. Carter's "Keep On the Sunny Side." "Steal Away" may be the best performance Donegan ever commited to record, and the rest is above average. Note: All of the material on Sing Hallelujah is available on the 8-CD collection More Than "Pye In the Sky."
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