Today is George Beverly Shea's 100th birthday, and as a frequent singer at Billy Graham's crusades, Shea's signature song was the great hymn How Great Thou Art.
I recently read an article about this tune, and was surprised to hear of its winding history of how it became one of the Church's most popular worship songs. You can read it here.
I looked and looked online to see if I could find a video of Shea singing How Great Thou Art, but to no avail. Here's one of Carrie Underwood at the Grand Ole Opry in case you'd like to hear it...
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