"A rare and historically significant recording of Elvis singing "Where No One Stands Alone". Elvis received this album, written and recorded by Don Gibson (it was his first Gospel Album) the year after Elvis beloved Mother passed away. Elvis had to purchase extra copies of this album as he played it so much as the songs helped him cope with the loss of his Mother." Where No One Stands Alone (Rare Live) - Elvis Presley A live recording with vocals and piano from Elvis Presley at his concert in Montgomery, Alabama - February 16th 1977.
"Where No On Stands Alone" is a beautiful gospel song that Elvis recorded at the legendary RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee in May 1966 for his Grammy award winning album "How Great Thou Art".
This live recording, exactly 6 months before his death aged just 42, is one of the most poignant moments on stage in Elvis' career. From nowhere, Elvis decided to sit at the piano, and perform this old gospel number for the one and only time on stage. Totally unrehearsed, it appears that his band and backing singers either couldn't remember the song or didn't know it at all.
Elvis launches into an impassioned effort, despite his failing health and delivers a performance and lyric that struck a resonance with his current situation that is impossible to ignore. With his life and career seemingly slipping away from him, Elvis seemed a broken and lost man, a victim of his own unprecedented success. The only place he knew to turn to was God, and that night, on that stage, he sung his heart out, in a cry for help.
Listen to Elvis, listen to those lyrics. Never before has a performer's soul lay bare on stage in this manner...
Once I stood in the night
With my head bowed low
In the darkness as black as could be
And my heart felt alone and I cried oh Lord
Don't hide your face from me
Like a king I may live in a palace so tall
With great riches to call my own
But I don't know a thing
In this whole wide world
That's worse than being alone
Hold my hand all the way, every hour every day
Come here to the great unknown
Take my hand, let me stand
Where no one stands alone
Take my hand, let me stand
Where no one stands alone
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