Billy Graham's Gospel Song

Memphis and, despite his wild boy image, recorded many gospel songs such as: Where Could I go to but the Lord, How Great Thou Art, Crying in the Chapel. Bob Dylan was later to declare “The highlight of my career? That’s easy. Elvis singing one of my songs.”
Gospel songs were frequently sung by church choirs and performed in events, such as Billy Graham’s four month “Down Under” Crusade of 1959. Graham claimed: “…young people today are searching for something to believe in……….and a song to sing.” He talked about a fear of war and for a while, the hordes of teenagers who flocked to hear the charismatic Christian preacher, listened to his message denouncing the current “age of despair and discouragement” and found a song to sing.
When Canadian/American, writing from his own personal experiences, Paul Anka sang: “You and I will be as free, as the birds up in the trees, oh, please, stay by me, Diana” the timing of his song’s release in Australia could not have been more perfect. About to enter high school, the writer started to take note of a song’s message rather than the tune. Not only was Anka able to convince the writer that he was singing directly to her (Diana) but the
With songs such as “Everybody wants Freedom”, “Freedom’s coming and it won’t be long” and “Free at Last” folk music coffee houses as well as the campuses of colleges and universities became venues for “that whole idea of getting out and singing the real people's music among the real people”. As it was for rock and roll music, African spiritual/ gospel music was a major influence in songs of freedom. As a founding member of the Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger had written songs to inspire a political consciousness in the masses and provided a major impetus for the revival of folk music in the 1960s, as did Woody Guthrie and