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Track Listings
1. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
2. One Day at a Time
3. Brighten the Corner
4. I Like the Old Time Way
5. Jesus Love Me Melody
6. The Uncloudy Day
7. He Touched Me
8. Swing Wide Your Golden Gate
9. Glory to His Name
10. Jesus Paid It All
11. Room at the Cross
12. What a Friend
13. I Believe
14. Operator
15. How Big is God
16. Bring Back the Springtime
17. The Bible Medley
18. Just a Little While
19. Leavin' on My Mind
20. Mansion Over the Hilltop
21. He'll Understand and Say Well Done
22. When We All Get to Heaven
23. Jesus Died for All the Children

For nearly thirty years, Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded for Capitol Records. In 1976 shortly after recording a hit album with Glen Campbell, he retired. In the next year, he recorded five albums for Word Albums. This collection is made up of mostly albums 2 + 5. The 1977 album Swing Wide Your Golden Gates was his third album he recorded with the Jordanaires. Nine out of the ten songs on the album are on this collection. It's the same story with 1983 album (his last) Sunday School Songs for Children. Included are the songs He Touched Me and a moving Leaving on My Mind (wrote by his friend Sammy Goodman of the Happy Goodman Family). These songs as well as the hip "Operator" and "One Day at a Time" make this a collection a classic.

Make no mistake, this is not the traditional hymn album put out by Ford. There are songs here that can't really be classified as hymns; songs that are only spiritual in the mildest sense of the word. For example, "I Believe" has never been sung in a church service that I have ever attended. The same thing, to an even larger extent, goes for "I'd like to teach the world to sing." This is by no means the hymn CD that I would pick from the Ford collection. Nevertheless, there are a few hymn standards here, such as "Jesus paid it all," "Room At the Cross," and " When We All Get to Heaven." Still, I admire the bravery of one who would buy this CD at first glance.