I Exalt Thee

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I Exalt Thee
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Studio album by
Phil Driscoll
Released1983
Label Sparrow Records
Producer Lari Goss, Phil Driscoll
Phil Driscoll chronology
Covenant Children
(1983)		I Exalt Thee
(1983)		 Celebrate Freedom
(1984)

I Exalt Thee is a 1983 album by trumpeter and singer Phil Driscoll. It was released in 1983 on LP by Sparrow Records. The album was released on cassette in 1988. In addition to its regular CD release, in 1998 Driscoll re-performed and re-recorded the album under his own label, adding another track "I Will Bless the Lord", with the title I Exalt Thee: 1998. [1]

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The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Gospel Performance. [2] It also garnered Driscoll the 1984 GMA Dove Award for Instrumentalist of the Year, and the album was nominated for the GMA Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year. [3] I Exalt Thee reached #15 on Billboard 's Inspirational LPs. [4] [5] AllMusic gives the album 4.5 stars. [6]

The album includes three original songs by Driscoll, three standards, and three modern tracks from other songwriters. The title track, "I Exalt Thee", had been written by Pete Sanchez in 1975 and copyrighted in 1976. [7] [8] It was not, however, until Driscoll popularized it with this 1983 eponymous album, that the song and Sanchez gained national and international attention. [9]

The album was the first collaboration between Driscoll and producer, arranger, and songwriter Lari Goss, spawned by a chance encounter at Benson Records. [10] [11] Goss went on to co-produce, arrange, and co-write many of Driscoll's songs and albums, and performed with him live on a number of occasions. [10] [12]

Track listing

I Exalt Thee (original album, 1983)

  1. "I Exalt Thee" (Pete Sanchez)
  2. "Wings as Eagles" (Phil Driscoll)
  3. "Let the Whole World Know" (Phil Driscoll, Lari Goss)
  4. "Our God Reigns" (Lenny E. Smith)
  5. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton)
  6. "Hosanna"
  7. "El Shaddai" (Michael Card, John Thompson)
  8. "Everlasting Life" (Phil Driscoll, Lari Goss, Mike Deasy)
  9. "The Lord's Prayer" (Albert Hay Malotte)

I Exalt Thee 1998

I Exalt Thee 1998
Studio album by
Phil Driscoll
Released1998
  1. "I Will Bless The Lord"
  2. "Let the Whole World Know" (Phil Driscoll, Lari Goss)
  3. "Wings as Eagles" (Phil Driscoll)
  4. "I Exalt Thee" (Pete Sanchez)
  5. "Hosanna" (Peter Scholtes)
  6. "Our God Reigns" (Lenny E. Smith)
  7. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton)
  8. "El Shaddai" (Michael Card, John Thompson)
  9. "Everlasting Life" (Phil Driscoll, Lari Goss, Mike Deasy)
  10. "The Lord's Prayer" (Albert Hay Malotte)

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References

  1. ↑ I Exalt Thee: 1998 at Amazon.com.
  2. ↑ Grammy Awards 1984. AwardsandShows.com.
  3. ↑ Dove Awards – 1984
  4. ↑ "Billboard Best Selling Inspirational LPs". Billboard . July 21, 1984. p. 54.
  5. ↑ I Exalt Thee – Awards at AllMusic
  6. ↑ I Exalt Thee at AllMusic
  7. ↑ Terry, Lindsay. I Could Sing of Your Love Forever: Stories Behind 100 of the World's Most Popular Worship Songs. Thomas Nelson Inc., 2008. p. 132.
  8. ↑ "I Exalt Thee". Hymnary.org.
  9. ↑ Terry, Lindsay. The Sacrifice of Praise: Stories Behind the Greatest Praise and Worship Songs of All Time. Thomas Nelson Inc., 2002. p. 133.
  10. 1 2 Lari Goss – Expanded Biographical Information. LariGoss.com.
  11. ↑ Lari Goss – Biography. LariGoss.com.
  12. ↑ Songs by Phil Driscoll. SongSelect.com.
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