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Amazing Grace is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Franklin in performance. The recording was originally released as a double album on June 1, 1972, by Atlantic Records. The album was a critical and commercial success, selling over two million copies in the United States alone and earning a double platinum certification. It also won Franklin the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. It remains the best selling disc of Franklin's entire recording career, as well as the highest selling live gospel music album of all time. The arrangement of "God Will Take Care of You" was based on one recorded by The Gay Sisters in 1951. Cohen asserts: "The Gay Sisters' version of the song would've been the one that Franklin heard on the circuit, and Cleveland would've been well aware of it because of his affinity for the family." Amazing Grace was remastered and re-released in 1999 as a two-compact disc set with many previously unreleased takes. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
