The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS

Artist: James F. Harrison
Author: Charles C. Converse/Joseph Scriven
Label: Edison cylinder
Year: 1898

Scriven wrote this hymn in 1857 in Canada to console his mother, left behind in Ireland. As he kept the poem secret, he didn't got credits until after its first publication in Ira D. Sankey's Gospel Hymns Number One collection. During World War I, Converse's tune was linked to the words When This Bloody War Is Over.

Covers:

1898:: Charles Taylor & his Two Daughters
1899:: J.J. Fisher [also for Edison]
1902:: Frank Stanley
1907:: Henry Burr & Frank Stanley
1915:: Henry Burr
1915:: Mr. & Mrs. Wheeler
1922:: Charles Hart
1947:: Southern Harps
1948:: Pilgrim Travelers
1950:: Blackwood Brothers
1951:: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
1952:: Famous World Singers
1953:: Caravans
1957:: Jordanaires
1957:: Pat Boone
1958:: Tennessee Ernie Ford
1958:: Stanley Brothers
1963:: Consolers
1963:: Mississippi John Hurt
1965:: Mahalia Jackson
1967:: Ella Fitzgerald
1968:: Sweet Inspirations
1968:: Elvis Presley [in documentary This Is Elvis]
1968:: Jimmie Davis
1968:: Cliff Richard
1972:: Aretha Franklin
1974:: Burl Ives
1982:: Al Green
1983:: Chris Barber & Dr. John
1983:: Sweet Honey In The Rock
1988:: Alan Price [melody in Changes]
1989:: Ruby Terry
1994:: Norbert Detaeye [as When This Blasted War Is Over, anonymous 'new' lyrics from WW I]
1997:: Campbell Brothers
2004:: Dirty Dozen Brass Band
2012:: Kenny Rogers

Also by Ernest Tubb, Merle Haggard, Bobby Helms, Stonewall Jackson and The Winans.

WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS

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