ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

Created on 21/11/2005
Latest update on 20/10/2023

Artist: Cecil Frances Alexander
Author: Cecil Frances Alexander/William Henry Monk
Year: 1848

Based on her poem Maker Of Heaven And Earth. Published in her Hymns For Little Children. Second line: All creatures great and small. Cecil Frances Humphreys (1818-1895) married North Irish Church of Ireland bishop William Alexander and wrote some 400 hymns. Sunday school choir classic.

Covers:

1951:

Harry Secombe [one third of the Goons, English comedy pioneers (with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan), role models for Monty Python]

1969:

Burl Ives

1972:

Vera Lynn

1978:

Goodies [parody as I'm A Carnivore]

1980:

Monty Python [as All Things Dull And Ugly]

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