Awards and Inductions
The choir has a list of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts (2003).
In 1960 the Choir won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus at that year's awards ceremony with a recording of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" that replaced the line "let us die to make men free" with "let us live to make men free." The album the song came from was entitled Lord's Prayer. It was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1963. The album was released by Columbia Records.
The largest act to chart on the Hot 100 is the 320-person Mormon Tabernacle Choir, whose version of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" reached #13 according to the The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits in 1959.
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