Bless This House

Words and Music by Helen Taylor and May H. Morgan ( a.k.a. Brahe ), 1927

With Mixed Chorus and Women's Choir

Conducted by Mitchell Ayres

with Organ Accompaniment by Charles Marie Courboin

 

Recorded at The Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City

Produced by Charles Grean

Recording Time 2:51

 

Recorded June 26th, 1950  ~  Matrix No. E0VB - 4938  Take 1

Recorded June 29th, 1950  ~  Matrix No. E0VB - 4938  Take 1A

Single release: RCA-78RPM-20-3850-A

RCA-45RPM 47-3850 ( 1950 )

Single Flip Side: "The Rosary"

 

 

 

Notes: ~ 'My oldest is 36', Perry noted recently, 'but when either of us enters or leaves a house, we hug and kiss.

We all do. I think husbands and wives, parents and children, should always show their love for each other.'

And more than any other song in this album, 'Bless This House' displays clearly the sincerity and depth of

Perry's feelings about home and family life. It dates back to 1927, when two Englishwomen, poetess Helen

Taylor and composer May H. Brae, published a hymn called 'Bless the House'. Irish tenor John McCormack

heard their song , liked it, added it to his repertoire and started it on the road to popularity. But first he

suggested that the title and words be changed to the way this favourite is sung today.

 

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )

 

Notes: ~ This spiritual song from England has had popular recordings by Risë Stevens on Columbia,

Eileen Farrell on Decca and Mahalia Jackson on Apollo. This song has been a perennial favourite of

Mr. Como, which was recorded for his 1952 45RPM Extended Play album "Perry Como Sings His

Favorite Songs of Worship" and later included within the 1956 expanded version of "I Believe"

re-released in the 12" long play format. The same recording was re-released thirty years later

within his 1982 Christmas compilation "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever" first on vinyl and

then on compact disc. He performed "Bless this House" several times on his television specials

but most memorably on his 1980 Christmas Special filmed in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and

Galilee ( Christmas In the Holy Land ) with special guest Richard Chamberlain.

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With Mixed Chorus and Women's Choir

Conducted by Mitchell Ayres

with Organ Accompaniment by Charles Marie Courboin

Recorded at The Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City

Produced by Charles Grean

Recorded June 26 & 29, 1950

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