Hallelujah I Love Her So

Jimmy Cleveland's original.

Single (A): Atlantic 1096, May 1956, b/w What Could I Do Without You.
Compilation album: Ray Charles, Atlantic 8006, June 1957.

Recorded in New York on 30 November 1955 with Joe Bridgewater, Joshua Willis - tp; Don Wilkerson - ts (solo); Cecil Payne - bs; Panama Francis - ds; Paul West - b.

The composition and lyrics go back to That's Why I'm Loving Him So by (James Cleveland's) Gospel All Stars (Apollo 312-45, 1953).*

*Joël Dufour kindly shared this info with me.



O Gênio, São Paulo 1963:


Shrine 1964:


Japan 1982 (with George Yanagi):


Paris 2000:


Live:
'57 LC Carnegie
'58 RT JazzParty NM - Not certain if live
'60 TV Playboy
'61 LC Antibes - Released
'61 LC Paris - 3x - Released
'62 LC Berlin - Released
'63 LC Gênio - 2x - Released
'64 LC Copenhagen
'65 FI Ballad - Pseudo live film version (partial)
'64 LC England
'64 LC Comblain
64 LC Shrine - Released
'67 LC Berlin
'68 TV Bishop - Part of medley
'68 LC Bakersfield
'69 LC Paris
'70 LC Prato
'70 TV Glen - With Glen Campbell
'70 LC Paris - 2x
'70 LC Geneva
'71 LC Paris  - 2x
'72 LC Copenhagen
'72 LC Paris
'75 TV Davis NM - With Sammy Davis
'77 TV Heart - With Cleo Laine (Love Him So)
'78 LC Montreux - Part of medley
'82 LC Japan - With George Yanagi
'83 TV Blitz - With Georges Moustaki
'94 FI Alexander
'97 LC WolfTrap
'97 LC Saratoga
'99 LC Marciac
'00 LC Paris - Released
'01 DM Oulo - Partial
'03 LC Melbourne
'03 LC Whitehouse