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This is track 3 from the 1982 album "The Richard Smallwood Singers".Use the link below to stream and download I Love the Lord by Ntokozo Mbambo. This is track 3 from the 1976 album "Give Us Peace".Įxample #2: Richard Smallwood Singers-I Love The Lord (Performed in 1982)Ĭhristopher Blacksher Uploaded on Apr 12, 2008 Gospel Nostalgia, Published on Oct 27, 2015 I'll hasten, I'll hasten to his, his throneĮxample #1: "I Love The Lord" (Original)(1976) Richard Smallwood & Union Temple Young Adult Choir (Performed in 1976)

When there is nowhere to go I know I can go to you I'll hasten to his throne hold on hold on “I Love The Lord” was also sung by Whitney Houston in the film The Preacher’s Wife.Īnd pitied every groan, long as I, I liveĪnd troubles rise, I hasten to his throne I owe it all to God and I feel blessed that for some reason he has chosen me to make a difference in people’s lives.” Smallwood is one of the best-known gospel artists today he has won many awards and performs around the world.

He said, “People need to know Someone can heal their hurts. " In 1990 the famous gospel artist Richard Smallwood wrote new music for this psalm text, which he probably learned in some version of the spiritual. His comfort saves me from my self, my flesh. No other power, no other manmade god can help me. I hasten to his throne because he has the power to comfort me. The first verse of that hymn is the same as the lyrics in Richard Smallwoord's revised "I Love The Lord" Gospel song. He is above all (a throne) all knowing all power under heaven and earth is given to him by our father. The tune is still used in English churches, usually called HARINGTON.".Ĭlick for Issac Watt's lyrics for this hymn. The publication for Magdalen Chapel was its first appearance as a hymn tune. Harington’s tune had also been published around the same time as a secular part-song called “Retirement” (“Beneath the silent rural call”). 2), set to HYMN LIV, a tune by Henry Harington (1727–1816). The first intentional printing of “I love the Lord, he heard my cries” with music was not until 1775, when it was published in A Fourth Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Magdalen Chapel (London: Henry Thorowgood, ca. The Church or, Public thanks for private deliverance.” The second part isĪrguably a separate hymn, but it carries the same meter and it follows in The original text by Isaac Watts spanned twelve stanzas ofįour lines, divided into two parts of six stanzas each, the second partīeginning “What shall I render to my God.” The first part was labeled “Recoveryįrom sickness” and the second part was labeled “Vows made in trouble paid in Long as I live and troubles rise, I'll hasten to His throne. Reinvigorated within the African American community. The favor of God can sometimes take away the labor all together and yet we won’t even hasten to His throne to get it. Verse: I love the Lord, He heard my cry and pitied every groan. Lord, he heard my cries” has had its own special journey, preserved and then Traditions with historic church tunes, his rendition of Psalm 116, “I love the To the world the Lord is come (Psalm 98). Where’er the sun (Psalm 72), Our God, our help in ages past (Psalm 90), and Joy Including My shepherd will supply my need (Psalm 23), Jesus shall reign These creative re-interpretations remain in circulation 300 years later, Of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament (1719 | Fig. Through the lens of the Christian gospel, thus his collection was called Psalms When they could be updated to include intertestamental theology, expressed

He believed the Hebrew Psalms were best suited for corporate worship Oh, I love the Lord (I love the Lord) I sure do, surely do love the Lord.
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Important vision for how to improve the condition of psalmody in EnglishĬhurches. INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONG "I LOVE THE LORD"Įnglish pastor and writer Isaac Watts (1674–1748) had an However, Richard Smallwood's and Whitney Houston's lyrics for this song aren't the same as the original "I Love The Lord He Heard My Cry" composition which was composed in 1719 by Isaac Watts. A gospelized hymn is a hymn that is performed in one of the styles of African American Gospel music. These examples of "I Love The Lord" are what I refer to as a "gospelized hymn". Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these examples on YouTube. Thanks to Richard Smallwood, Whitney Houston, and the two featured choirs for their musical legacies. The content of this post is presented for religious, cultural, and aesthetic purposes. This pancocojams post showcases three renditions of the Gospel song "I Love The Lord" that was written by Richard Smallwood.
