20 Best of Hymns and Praise

Track Listings

1. Amazing Grace

2. Blessed Assurance

3. Great Is Thy Faithfulness

4. Rock of Ages

5. Savior Like a Shepherd He Leads Us

6. Love Divine

7. Love Lifted Me

8. Lord Is My Shepherd, I'll Not Want

9. Trust and Obey

10. Wonderful Words of Life

11. There Is a Name I Love to Hear

12. Blessed Redeemer

13. Whiter Than Snow

14. What a Friend We Have in Jesus

15. Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy

16. O Perfect Love

17. O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

18. Revive Us Again

19. Since Jesus Came into My Heart

20. Jesus Paid It All

Tracks:

Amazing Grace
Blessed Assurance
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Rock of Ages
Savior Like a Shepherd He Leads Us
Love Divine
Love Lifted Me
Lord Is My Shepherd, I'll Not Want
Trust and Obey
Wonderful Words of Life
There Is a Name I Love to Hear
Blessed Redeemer
Whiter Than Snow
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy
O Perfect Love
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Revive Us Again
Since Jesus Came into My Heart
Jesus Paid It All

Customer Reviews:

You can get 5 times as many of these tracks for not much more money.......2007-04-27

As best I can tell, Madacy first released the 3-CD box set entitled "100 Best Loved Hymns" in 2001, featuring various artists performing traditional classics. Since then, those same 100 tracks -- same singers, same musicians, same arrangements -- have been mixed and matched into so many other CDs that I keep uncovering them. Some or all of these original tracks have been used in different combinations to produce: "100 Hymns and Praise Classics" (4-CD box set), attributed to 'Various Artists'; "50 Hymns & Praise Favorites" (2-CD set), "50 Hymns & Praises" (3 CDs), and "20 Best of Hymns and Praise", attributed to the Joslin Grove Choral Society; "A Treasury of Golden Hymns" and "50 Amazing Hymns", attributed to the Great Plains Chorale; and "Inspirations: 50 Best Loved Hymns", disingenuously attributed to Thomas Kinkade solely because he provided the cover art. All of these CDs are posted separately on the Amazon site.

The Joslin Grove CD being offered in this posting contains only 20 of these 100 tracks. The 3- and 4-CD sets containing the full 100 tracks can be purchased for not much more money than this single CD on Amazon Marketplace. Thus, it makes sense to shop around for one of those 100-track sets (e.g., "100 Best Loved Hymns") before buying this smaller collection.

Regarding the content of this oft-released, multi-titled, multi-attributed collection of tracks, the hymns are sung in traditional arrangements, often with a full choir accompanied by a piano or organ. Some are by soloists or smaller groups of singers, accompanied by a piano. If you're looking for a solid traditional presentation of these classics, you will probably not be disappointed. I give the music 4 stars rather than 5 because some of this choral group's soloists on some tracks -- while good singers -- have voices that are perhaps not sufficiently smooth and mellow to allow them to come across well as soloists on a recording.

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1. Amazing Grace
2. Blessed Assurance
3. Great Is Thy Faithfulness
4. Rock of Ages
5. Savior Like a Shepherd He Leads Us
6. Love Divine
7. Love Lifted Me
8. Lord Is My Shepherd, I'll Not Want
9. Trust and Obey
10. Wonderful Words of Life
11. There Is a Name I Love to Hear
12. Blessed Redeemer
13. Whiter Than Snow
14. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
15. Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy
16. O Perfect Love
17. O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
18. Revive Us Again
19. Since Jesus Came into My Heart
20. Jesus Paid It All