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| 1 | Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven | Lynn | 2:22 |
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| 2 | Where No One Stands Alone | Haggard/Lister | 2:48 |
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| 3 | When They Ring Those Golden Bells | Traditional | 3:08 |
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| 4 | Peace in the Valley | Dorsey | 2:52 |
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| 5 | If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again | Traditional | 2:17 |
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| 6 | The Third Man | Helms/Wilburn | 3:25 |
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| 7 | How Great Thou Art | Hine | 2:56 |
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| 8 | Old Camp Meetin' Time | Traditional | 2:05 |
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| 9 | When I Hear My Children Pray | Waldrop | 2:34 |
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| 10 | In the Sweet By and By | Bennett/Von Tilzer/ | 2:22 |
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| 11 | Where I Learned to Pray | Lynn | 2:44 |
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| 12 | I'd Rather Have Jesus | Traditional | 2:39 |
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Editorial Reviews
Hymns
Audio Compact Disc [MCA]
Label: MCA Special Products
Style: Gospel
Hymns
UPC: 076742204228
Release Date: 01/01/1995
Original Release Date: 01/01/1995
Number of Discs: 1
- Loretta Lynn
Main Performer
Stewart Mason
Loretta Lynn's fourth album -- fifth if you count her duet record with Ernest Tubb from earlier in 1965 -- is a collection of Christian songs but, despite the title, the record is actually about evenly divided between traditional church music and what would eventually come to be called contemporary Christian music. The rollicking opening track, "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die)," biblical verse or no, sounds more like a classic Sun Records rockabilly single, complete with slapback bass and Scotty Moore-style guitar, than anything one would be likely to hear on a Sunday morning. That song is a Lynn original, as is the closing "Where I Learned How to Pray," a sentimental weeper in the classic style. In between, Lynn essays traditional hymns and newer classics of the style like the Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey's immortal "There'll Be Peace in the Valley for Me," the arrangement of which strongly recalls Elvis' hit version. A relative rarity among Lynn's albums, Hymns was reissued by King Records in 1998. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi









