The Statler Brothers - How Great Thou Art
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- The Statler Brothers sing "How Great Thou Art" from their "An Evening With The Statler Brothers" TV show. This is the one that has Lew DeWitt on it, it was taped shortly before he got too sick to travel with the Statlers any longer.
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This is what Gospel and Country Music is all about. The true talent to sing a beautiful song with nothing taking away anything. The Statler Brothers were and will always be a big part of the reason that I love Music, true country and gospel at it's best
Thank YOU GOD, for the Statlers AND for the Arranger of this hymn.
My mom always cranked this song every time she listened to the CD's. She was put on hospice on July 27th of 2016. She lived for another 3 weeks, and in the hour of her passing, I played her this song! She went as peaceful as can be! Every sunday, I am in my office, I have her candle burning, along side her Urn, and I play this a couple times.Thank you for all your GREAT music!
Hello how are you doing
bless her heart
So hard to loose your mom. My heart is with yours
Lovely ❤❤❤
First off I'm so sorry for your loss ,I lost my mother in May of 2016 also. I miss her dearly everyday! But 😮I hope you know your mother is in heaven if she was saved and isn't in those ashes. Those are just ashes and that isn't your mother. My sister's had my mother cremated also but to be dead in the flesh is to be alive with Jesus Christ. So she's in her perfectly heavenly body watching over you. I know you burn the candle and actually think you're honoring your mother but that's actually an occult practice and I would warn you against doing that. May God bless you and your family!!
I won’t be the first or last on this thread to say it, but Lew Dewitt was an incredible talent who was lost far too young. What a voice.
It is heart breaking that Lew became ill and died so young .A voice that will never be matched.
Yes he was
Absolutely 💯
I feel blessed to have seen them once before Lew quit touring. They were still a wonderful group but never quite the same without him.
Lew had the most pure tenor voice ever. He harmonized so well and his voice blended so perfectly with the other 3. So many tenors are so piercing with their voices and almost dominate the others. Lew's voice was so complimentary and beautiful. Lew was only the lead when he was supposed to.
One of the best gospel songs ever!
The Statler Bros are from my home state Virginia. Stauton was a 3 hour drive from where I lived. I love these guys. How Great Thou Art and The Old Rugged Cross was sung at my husband's memorial service. We grew up with these songs and The Statler Bros do a wonderful job with them. They are the greatest.
First time I heard them sing this song, I was driving. Turned the radio up. The DJ said that is so good, he just had to play it again, and he did. I bought the album that day 😁.
In 1885, Carl Boberg, a Swedish editor and future politician, was walking home in the bayside town of Mönsterås, located on Sweden’s south-eastern coast. A thunderhead appeared on the horizon. Lightning flashed. Thunderclaps shook the air, sending Boberg running for shelter.
When the storm began to relent, he rushed home. He opened his windows to let in the fresh bay air, and the vision of tranquility that greeted him stirred something deep in his soul. The sky had cleared. Thrushes sang, and in the distance, the resonant knell of church bells sounded. With the juxtaposition between the roaring thunderstorm and such bucolic calm as background, Boberg sat down and wrote “O Store Gud”-the poem that, through a winding series of events would become “How Great Thou Art.”
After being published in a local newspaper, an unknown Swede put “O Store Gud” to the tune of a Swedish folk song, whose name has also been lost to history. In the late 1800s several versions were published, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s that “O Store Gud,” which translates literally to “O Mighty God,” hopped the Swedish border.
In the first decade of the 20th century the song was translated into German. A handful of years later a Russian version appeared. The first English language version wouldn’t be penned until 1925. But this English iteration, translated by the Swedish-American E. Gustav Johnson, is a far cry from the song we know today. It took another quarter century, a British missionary, and a new translation before the song developed into its now recognizable form.
In the early 1930s, Stuart K. Hine, an English missionary, first heard the Russian version of “O Store Gud” while in the Ukraine. For years he and his wife sang the song with locals before he finally sat down and translated it into English. Translation is of course more art than science, and Hine took some liberties, most particularly with the title, which in 1949 he rechristened “How Great Thou Art.”
Hine published his English translation alongside the Russian version in Grace and Peace, a magazine that he published and was circulated to missionaries in over 15 countries. The story of “How Great Thou Art” might have ended here, in relative obscurity, were it not for a British-American theologian traveling to India, a singing cowboy, and a popular American evangelist on a self-described crusade.
When J. Edwin Orr, a British-American theologian and evangelist, travelled to India in 1954, music was the farthest thing from his mind. He was there to preach. But while there he heard an English version of “How Great Thou Art” sung by a Naga choir from the state of Assam in north-eastern India. He was so impressed by the song he brought it back to America and had it performed at a conference for college students where he was speaking.
In attendance at that fateful conference were the children of Tim Spencer, a singing cowboy and actor who had found fame singing in the Sons of the Pioneers alongside Bob Nolan and Roy Rogers. At that time, Spencer owned Mana Music, Inc, a publisher of Christian music. He quickly arranged to buy the rights to the song and then did what all good publishers do-he started pushing the song.
As late as 1954, “How Great Thou Art” remained all but unknown in the U.S., but with Mana Music’s backing the song eventually landed in the hands of George Beverly Shea, famed soloist in Billy Graham’s travelling crusade. Graham reportedly loved the song and quickly made it his evangelical crusade’s signature song. Given Graham’s reach, Shea all but introduced the song to the nation. He sang it live on radio, before stadiums filled with thousands of people-and during nationally televised events like the 1957 Madison Square Garden Crusade, which ran for 16 weeks and was viewed by an estimated 96 million people.
Then came Elvis. Though Shea and other popular artists like Tennessee Ernie Ford and Loretta Lynn recorded versions before him, Elvis’s recordings-his more restrained studio version from 1967 and his slightly looser live version from 1974, both of which earned him Grammys-are generally considered the canonical versions against which all others are compared. That said, many people today think first of Carrie Underwood’s chart-topping rendition from 2011.
Regardless of your favorite recording, when we reflect upon the various chance encounters and serendipitous occurrences that combined to birth “How Great Thou Art” and bring it to prominence, it’s hard not to be awed by the sheer improbability of it all; fate, dumb luck, God’s grace, call it what you will, the path from “O Store Gud” to “How Great Thou Art” is nothing if not unlikely. And still today is sung at Church of Sweden!
I grew up listening to these fellows. They are my favorite by far. Every harmony is so spot on. We miss them.
I wish I had found this Beautiful Sound earlier ❤❤❤❤
My dad loved these guys. I have happy memories of listening to them (and singing along). Sometimes I just have to go back 40-45 years and listen to them.
what a terrific song , and you hardly hear anymore. He is great , He has done so much
and we don't recognize it
This is, for me, the one and only ultimate recording of this beloved gospel song. It was my father's favorite and and I offered it up as the last song loved ones sang at his funeral, and in my mind he was strong, sitting in his favorite chair singing, eyes closed, singing loud an lovingly to the God he adored. Wish I could tell these wonderful singers how he an I are for the talent and love they infuse into every song they performed.
Harmony that can't be matched, never mind will, no one can match a sound like this. I grew up listening to their music and just in complete awe at the harmony they have. Trully one of the greatest bands ever and this is the best version of this song ever.
I totally agree☺️❤️
Miss the Statler Brothers so much
The first time I ever heard the Statler Brothers was over 50 years ago when they opened for a Johnny Cash concert. I knew then they were great and listened to them to this day. Miss you Harold and Lou.....RIP
I miss Lew. All of the guys are super talented, including Jimmy Fortune. However there was just something about Lew . A little touch of sorrow in his voice. Great performer and a criminally underrated songwriter as well.
No words are available to us to describe the beauty and majesty of this message. Be thankful ..... every day.
Lew Dewitt had a beautiful voice---he really made the group really sound amazing.
Rest in Peace Harold, gone but never forgotten!! One of the best!
The Statler Brothers will always be number one in gospel music for me! I love them all for sharing their talent.
Hi Linda
In 1885, Carl Boberg, a Swedish editor and future politician, was walking home in the bayside town of Mönsterås, located on Sweden’s south-eastern coast. A thunderhead appeared on the horizon. Lightning flashed. Thunderclaps shook the air, sending Boberg running for shelter.
When the storm began to relent, he rushed home. He opened his windows to let in the fresh bay air, and the vision of tranquility that greeted him stirred something deep in his soul. The sky had cleared. Thrushes sang, and in the distance, the resonant knell of church bells sounded. With the juxtaposition between the roaring thunderstorm and such bucolic calm as background, Boberg sat down and wrote “O Store Gud”-the poem that, through a winding series of events would become “How Great Thou Art.”
After being published in a local newspaper, an unknown Swede put “O Store Gud” to the tune of a Swedish folk song, whose name has also been lost to history. In the late 1800s several versions were published, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s that “O Store Gud,” which translates literally to “O Mighty God,” hopped the Swedish border.
In the first decade of the 20th century the song was translated into German. A handful of years later a Russian version appeared. The first English language version wouldn’t be penned until 1925. But this English iteration, translated by the Swedish-American E. Gustav Johnson, is a far cry from the song we know today. It took another quarter century, a British missionary, and a new translation before the song developed into its now recognizable form.
In the early 1930s, Stuart K. Hine, an English missionary, first heard the Russian version of “O Store Gud” while in the Ukraine. For years he and his wife sang the song with locals before he finally sat down and translated it into English. Translation is of course more art than science, and Hine took some liberties, most particularly with the title, which in 1949 he rechristened “How Great Thou Art.”
Hine published his English translation alongside the Russian version in Grace and Peace, a magazine that he published and was circulated to missionaries in over 15 countries. The story of “How Great Thou Art” might have ended here, in relative obscurity, were it not for a British-American theologian traveling to India, a singing cowboy, and a popular American evangelist on a self-described crusade.
When J. Edwin Orr, a British-American theologian and evangelist, travelled to India in 1954, music was the farthest thing from his mind. He was there to preach. But while there he heard an English version of “How Great Thou Art” sung by a Naga choir from the state of Assam in north-eastern India. He was so impressed by the song he brought it back to America and had it performed at a conference for college students where he was speaking.
In attendance at that fateful conference were the children of Tim Spencer, a singing cowboy and actor who had found fame singing in the Sons of the Pioneers alongside Bob Nolan and Roy Rogers. At that time, Spencer owned Mana Music, Inc, a publisher of Christian music. He quickly arranged to buy the rights to the song and then did what all good publishers do-he started pushing the song.
As late as 1954, “How Great Thou Art” remained all but unknown in the U.S., but with Mana Music’s backing the song eventually landed in the hands of George Beverly Shea, famed soloist in Billy Graham’s travelling crusade. Graham reportedly loved the song and quickly made it his evangelical crusade’s signature song. Given Graham’s reach, Shea all but introduced the song to the nation. He sang it live on radio, before stadiums filled with thousands of people-and during nationally televised events like the 1957 Madison Square Garden Crusade, which ran for 16 weeks and was viewed by an estimated 96 million people.
Then came Elvis. Though Shea and other popular artists like Tennessee Ernie Ford and Loretta Lynn recorded versions before him, Elvis’s recordings-his more restrained studio version from 1967 and his slightly looser live version from 1974, both of which earned him Grammys-are generally considered the canonical versions against which all others are compared. That said, many people today think first of Carrie Underwood’s chart-topping rendition from 2011.
Regardless of your favorite recording, when we reflect upon the various chance encounters and serendipitous occurrences that combined to birth “How Great Thou Art” and bring it to prominence, it’s hard not to be awed by the sheer improbability of it all; fate, dumb luck, God’s grace, call it what you will, the path from “O Store Gud” to “How Great Thou Art” is nothing if not unlikely.
I absolutely loved this song and no one can do it better than the Statler Brothers!,,!
Its a Swedish hymn from 1860 and sung every christmas in Scandinavian churches! ruclips.net/video/uWOFkA5ZAls/видео.html
Bravo! One of the great classics sung with great harmony! Love the Statler Bros.
Beautiful music....and of course the Lyrics are unsurpassed !! Overall what really "seals it for me"...are the Harmonies!!
This was on the first album I bought and I came to the Lord! Has blessed my heart for over 50 years!
Praises be always to Jesus Christ
Rest in peace, Harold. The Statlers were always one of my favorites. This is one of my favorites of their songs.
This is what we sang for my dad when he passed…..he absolutely loved this song❤️❤️💔💔💔💔
I have always loved to listen to them singing they were all so great Rest in Piece Harold one of the greatest groups ever
@Greg Normal they are the best to bad after they retired Harold died I have always loved there music I have several of there cds play them all th time when i am in my car
so sad that DeWitt became too ill to keep touring and died so young. Never be anyone else like him.
You are so right, I could listen to Lew day and night.
They are all great and my favorites ❤
Praising God with the Statler's in 2019 and telling the world How Great My God Is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
I agree with you! God bless everyone...
Thank you for bringing their music to us this day. 🎉
their version has always been my favorite. I have missed them so much. We know where Harold is now. Eternally happy
Hello how are you doing
This will always be my favorite Statler Brothers Gospel song. It was my father's favorite also. He recalled the time when he and my mother attended outdoor services at a church supported youth camp. With misty eyes, he shared that at the end, the repeated last stanza, he could literally hear the lyrics "...how great Thou Art" drifting off as the music faded across the camp. Thanks for the memory!
Hi Mary
Good clean music the whole family can watch almost as good as Lawrence welk
I miss layin on my grandma's floor listenin to them on the radio. Brings back great memories which i need right now
Lew and Harold are reunited again and singing before the Throne of GOD !
Lew had such a beautiful voice.. He was very nice too
I think that this is the best version ever.
Great rendition of this timeless hymn
Damn! Lew beltin out the falsetto!!
I remember where I was the first time I heard this song. It was December 1964 I had my new transistor radio on wls Chicago when I went to bed. I loved it right away. I was 8th grade.
I sure do miss these men performing- they were the greatest quartet I know and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs.
Hello
Lew DeWitt was one of my Mother-In Law’s favorite singers, Lew performed at several small concerts, which We were able to attend and We left the concert with signed picture and one of his guitar picks which he threw and it landed at my feet!!!!
I love gospel music and grew up listening and singing to it. I especially listened to you folks and love your music. I truly wish you all the best.
NOBODY DID THIS SONG LIKE THE STATLERS.
This is the most beautiful song, it comforts me.
Elvis
Nobody did ANY song like the Statler Brothers.
They do this wonderfully, but the true impact of this song can not even come close to that of George Beverly Shea.
Hello how are you doing
Nobody sings this hymn like the Statler Brothers!
Hi Janie
Need to hear this song more often these days/ Thank You. My dad the song leader in church. Sang a fine Tenor Irish version of this song.
Saw them in abilene tx they are the best 3 times in abilene my how good they are
I began listening to the Statler Brothers as a teen back in the 70's and have never stopped. I love to sing Bass and have always emulated Harold but obviously I just cannot reach his level.
The Statler Brothers were my Daddy's favorite group of all time. He would play their music for hours and hours. He never missed an episode of their TV Show. When he left our world in 2000 we decided that his funeral would not be HIS Funeral without the Statlers playing this song during the service. After the passing of time, I can now listen to their voices, and hear my Daddy singing right along with them.
See you soon Daddy, your memory lives on in my heart
Probably the very best quartet of all time!!!
this has always been my favorite version of this song. God bless the Statler brothers
Hi
I miss Lew. He helped me one day!
Rest in peace Harold. Your singing with God now.
They were always a class act, no long hair or holes in their jeans, true entertainers.
I was fortunate enough to get to see them in concert a couple of years before they retired. Still feel lucky to have seen them.
I so miss them.. Wonderful group.. These ppl today don't know what music is
Really Lynn! What is ppl???? People like there music. Not all like yours. I love these guys but my younger family looks at me like !
Really? Lynn, your beautiful and just accept the differance taste. Love You
Hi Lynn
When they sing it goes to my very soul and makes me feel at piece. I play their songs over and over.
Rest in peace Harold Reid! A great bass singer!
In my mind he's the best. I'm sure he and Lew are in heaven singing for the God they lovingly shared with the world in song.
Indeed
Not going to lie...this is beautiful, but it is making me miss my grandma so much....
Statler Brothers really sing it! By far, one of my favorites!
Hello
One of the best quartets ever! Never get tired of listening to them!!
No group could be as good thank you
This is my favorite group used to listen to them growing up an still do from time to time when I get a chance to get an album or two out ! God Bless you guys !
Harold just died today, what a loss, but heavens gain..♥ ♥
so sad. So glad we got to see them every Jan until they retired. They were sing at the GRAND THEATRE IN GALVESTON TX.
@@neldajohnson6879 aàaaàaaaaa
Sad to learn of this. Thanks.
I Loved there music so much
They did a very good man god want him to come a sing with his angels he know he was sick an had to come home
Came here after hearing Harold Reid passed away. Not only a great singer, but a great comedian. God’s heavenly choir added one of the best, if not best bass singers of all times. RIP, Harold as you go to meet Don at the pearly gates. 04/25/20
Hello how are you doing
I miss hearing them together and loved when they did gospel. "How Great Thou Art" is one of their best. Brings tears to my eyes...
Hi
Fly high in the heavens with our GOD, Harold Reid!
Is that true
Oh Harold how sad to hear this. But you are in the arms of our Lord and he is there with you.
Hello how are you
Another bass for the heavenly choir
@@ritagreening5149 hi Rita
Introduced to them in 1978 by my grandma. We would listen to the 8 track The Bible (Old & New Testament) on the way to church. I was 12. Remember like it was yesterday. Miss my Grandma daily.
RIP Harold Reid...no doubt you are singing to God today. Thank you for all the entertainment through my childhood.
Hello how are you doing
Surely his greatness is from generation to generation amen
I miss this group. It is no wonder they were voted the best group of the century. When they retired it broke my heart. Oh, these songs of inspiration......
Darrell Burnham amen a great American band
Love to hear group sang, always will. Lloyd Crites 2018
To Darrell Burnham-amen, b rother, they are my favorite vocal group. I, too , was sad- dened by the fact that they a re no longer performing. Wo uld have loved to meet them in person. It's a tragic sham e Lew suffered from Crohn's Disease. I no doubt he'd've s tayed 'til the end taking the bows they so richly deserve d. As you know Lew person- ally handpicked Jimmy to b- e his successor. Long live th e Statler Brothers!.
Me too
Darrell Burnham y
Love this old song I’m 84 in august 29
Up there with Amazing Grace.
I really miss them.Such a great group.Loved their music & always will.
Beautiful!!!
Wayne Gretzky, Greg Louganis, Elvis, Pele, John Brzenk and the Statler Brothers. All GOATS of their field
Merry Christmas 12-25-2018. Thank You
Best group ever they take me to my happy place probably save my life a time or two one of my goals in life are to take my mother who is 84 years old to The Statler Brothers Museum Road trippin from the middle of Missouri singing their songs all the way I'm a guitar picker and she plays a q chord beautifully and her and I play a lot of their songs we both love everyone of them
My mums favourite it brings tears every time I hear it no matter who sings it 😢😍 my mum favourite but she loved all types music she was only 67 when she died 2009. Grew up listening to every types of music must admits for me it’s country
Hi Sharon
This is my favorite gym done by the best This is what I say to myself whenever watch sunrise or seeing a humming bird.
Hello how are you
Looks like our old High School gym In Grayville Illinois in the 1900 hundreds.
One of my favorite hymns. I know we are all children of the Most High God and looking forward to being with God in heaven. God bless everyone.
Hi Joan
Love this song best when performed by the Statler's
I always loved watching the Statler Brothers sing
No greater thought,standing before GOD,singing or saying to him,HOW GREAT THOU ART.
Gave me goose bumps just like when I seen them in person. Love this song.
Hi Judy
@@christiandonaldson31 hello
this the best ever. this song helps me handle life every day. lew was the best to sing with the statler brothers. I want this song for my services when I pass on to the great pearl gate to me thee
Amen.
You guys were always my most favorite group. Rest in peace Harold
Yes, Lew was good, but so was Jimmy--a perfect fit for the group, a voice like an angel.
Mark Ronald I listened in the 70's and 80's they are so great. They are so great find anything you can by them you wont be disappointed.
Hello
My Grandpa loved the Statler Brothers and this was his favorite song. And just at the age of 12 I started to catch on and listen to the Statler Brothers. For Christmas and my Birthday I received the O Happy Day record and a few others. Then a week ago my Grandpa had a brain bleed which took his life. I know he is always looking down at me and he is in a lot better place. He is also with the dear lord and probably meeting his parents after a long time. I will always love my Grandpa and thank him daily of the music that he influenced me with.
Arkie.L Vandeventer 1937-2020
I will miss you Grandpa
Amen. Absent from the body present with the Lord
This was my mothers song.Was sung at her and daddys funeral I miss them so much.
Hi Cindy
As a Believer in Jesus' shed blood as payment for our sins,I guarantee you that Harold does rest in Peace!
All the guys know Jesus as their Savior!!
I was lucky enough to see the Statlers in Loughlin, Nevada and Suzy Bogus was the opener. Great show and yep the vocal group of the century with no wonders why. Very small setting for concert as well. Only about 200 or so for seating.
My favorite Gospel Quartet
Hi Janet
Loved them when I was in my teens and still love them in my fifties.
Hello how are you
LORD , i just want to praise YOU LORD , with all my heart and soul.
HOW GREAT IS YOUR LOVE ,
LORD. HOW YOU ALWAYS LOVE us, like a true friend ,
And YOU always stand and never leave us ,this unworthy friend, no matter what.
THANK YOU LORD for teaching this unworthy friend about the meaning of FRIEND.
LORD , i know , i'll never understand YOUR GRACE AND LOVE, but LORD , please let this lowest human being, give YOU THE HIGHEST PRAISE AND GRACE.
FOR YOU ARE WORTHY ALL THE PRAISES.
Statler Bros . Got their CDs ; everybody should .
Anyway , any song is Gospel, when your soul kneel , when your soul singing the highest praises to HIM
Yes, how great Thou art oh Lord..
My father in law wants this played at his funeral.
HOW GREAT THOU ART,,/ The Statler Brothers,,! God Bless to you all ,,,!! add , am , from northern Ireland,! & my kids love this,!!
Www :
am back,, , ! people just play this,!! & thanks ! god bless !!!
Absolutely love the Statler Brothers . I could listen to them all day .
My favorite hymn of all time. It always brings tears to my eyes. R. I. P. Mr. DeWitt.
Correct always a class act
R.I.P. and Thank You 👍