Ricky Sings Spirituals

Ricky Sings Spirituals is an EP by American singer Ricky Nelson. It was released in February 1960 by Imperial Records, and contains four gospel songs. Jimmie Haskell arranged the album and Charles "Bud" Dant produced it. Nelson's only EP, it was inspired by Elvis Presley's devotion to gospel music. It didn't come from his own religious upbringing, which was nonexistent and may have been Ozzie Nelson's idea. The EP includes a Baker Knight tune, "Glory Train", but it was a commercial failure and an out-of-character footnote to his fifties rock & roll. According to Nelson, he wasn't trying to copy Presley by recording an EP of spiritual songs, but he understood that he "was welcomed as a cleaned up Elvis." The EP was released on compact disc by Capitol Records on June 19, 2001, as tracks 21 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Nelson's Final Studio Imperial Album from March 1962, Album Seven by Rick. Bear Family included also the EP in the 2001 The American Dream box set.

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