Nearer My God to Thee

~ Recording by Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Vocal Majority & John Longhurst

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.14Nearer My God to Thee4:24Mormon Tabernacle Choir & The Vocal MajorityVoices in HarmonyMormon Tabernacle Choir & The Vocal MajorityAlbum
  • -1987-07-14
1.14Nearer My God to Thee4:24Mormon Tabernacle Choir & The Vocal MajorityVoices in HarmonyMormon Tabernacle Choir & The Vocal MajorityAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)MK 42380
1.8Nearer My God to Thee4:25Lowell MasonMore Greatest HitsMormon Tabernacle ChoirAlbum + Compilation
Sony ClassicalSMK 61982
1.11Nearer, My God, to Thee4:22Lowell MasonAmerica’s Musical Landscape, Fourth EditionVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Special ProductsA 53845, A 53846, A 53847, A3 53844
2.8Nearer My God to Thee4:25Mormon Tabernacle ChoirThe Essential Mormon Tabernacle ChoirMormon Tabernacle ChoirAlbum + Compilation
  • US2006-05-23
Sony Classical80317
1.20Nearer, My God, to Thee4:22Lowell MasonAmerica’s Musical Landscape, Sixth EditionVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, CMG (Custom Marketing Group; a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, ca. 2004–2008, and later Sony Music Entertainment)10 0-07-340140-4, 10 0-07-732342-4, 13 978-0-07-340140-9, 13 978-0-07-732342-4, A753661
1.8Nearer My God to Thee4:25Lowell MasonMore Greatest HitsMormon Tabernacle ChoirAlbum + Compilation
1.14Nearer My God to Thee4:24Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Vocal Majority & John LonghurstVoices in HarmonyMormon Tabernacle Choir & The Vocal MajorityAlbum
Sony Classical

Relationships

organ:John Longhurst (organist)
choir vocals:The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (fka Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
The Vocal Majority (TX-based barbershop chorus)
chorus master:Jerold Ottley (conductor)
recording of:Nearer, My God, to Thee (Bethany)

Related works

Nearer, My God, to Thee (Bethany)

lyricist:Sarah Flower Adams (English poet, and notably lyricist of the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee") (in 1841)
composer:Lowell Mason (in 1856)
publisher:TCF Music Publishing, Inc. (Twentieth Century Fox Music Publishing, Inc.; ASCAP)
Skyhill Music (in 1971)
later parody versions:Nearer My Job to Thee
Nero, My Dog, Has Fleas
later translated versions:Närmare, Gud, till dig
is the basis for:Variations on L. Mason's Nearer, My God, to Thee in E Major
arrangements:Nearer, My God, to Thee (arr. Stevens)
Nearer, My God, to Thee (arr. Tharaldson)
lyrics quoted in:Perverts