“Someone”–it turned out to be Ina–asked for another hymn by Sir Harry Secombe, and this is the one I found: How Great Thou Art. My mother and my aunts used to sing it as they did their houjsework–it’s a nice hymn for me to hear.
Tag: Sir Harry Secombe
‘Bread of Heaven’ (‘Cwm Rhondda’)
Wow! Can Sir Harry Secombe sing a hymn, or what? With some help from the Treorchy Male Choir–Bread of Heaven (known in Welsh as Cwm Rhondda ((and did that ever confuse me in Sunday school!)) ).
You can’t beat the Welsh for singing hymns.
By Request, ‘The First Noel’
Another Christmas hymn request for our Christmas Carol Contest–now we’re getting somewhere!–from Ina, our friend in Glasgow, Scotland: The First Noel, sung by Sir Harry Secombe with the Choir of Westminster Abbey.
By Request, ‘I’ll Walk With God’
Requested by Ina–I’ll Walk with God, sung by Sir Harry Secombe.
For a little while we had a three-way tie in our hymn contest, but yesterday one of the hymns collected 20 views to forge ahead.
‘The Lord Is My Shepherd’
The video track here is a bit murkey, but it’s Sir Harry Secombe on the audio and that’s as clear as a bell–The Lord Is My Shepherd.
After yesterday’s oddities, I’ll be interested to see whether anybody views this.
Don’t Miss This Hymn!
You can’t beat a Welsh choir for singing hymns; and you’ll soon understand why they call Sir Harry Secombe “the Welsh Pavarotti.” Here he is with the Treorchy Male Choir, and the hymn is the traditional Cwm Rhondda–which we also know (among other titles) as Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah.