The Lord's Prayer (Sister Janet Mead song)
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"The Lord's Prayer" (1973) is a rock setting of the Lord's Prayer with music by Arnold Strals recorded by the Australian nun Sister Janet Mead.
It made Mead the first Roman Catholic nun to have a hit record in the United States since Jeanine Deckers ("The Singing Nun"), hit No. 1 with "Dominique" in late 1963. It also became the only song to hit the Top 10 in which the entire lyrical content originated from the words of the Bible. More specifically, it is the only Top 10 hit with words attributed to Jesus Christ.
Mead was nominated for a Grammy for Best Inspirational Performance (although she lost to Elvis Presley's How Great Thou Art) and also became the first Australian artist to sell one million US copies of a record produced in Australia. She donated all of her royalties from the recording's international sales to charity and her record label used their share of the proceeds to build a new state of the art recording studio.
Mead re-recorded "The Lord's Prayer" in 1999 for her album A Time to Sing.
Mead's version was covered in the satirical stage musical Disaster!.
See also
- Christian music
- "Dominique" (1963) by Soeur sourire
