Milky White Way Explained

Milky White Way
Type:Song
Artist:The Coleman Brothers
Milky White Way
Cover:Elvis_Presley_Milky_White_Way_PS.jpg
Artist:Elvis Presley
Album:His Hand In Mine
B-Side:Swing Down Sweet Chariot
Released:February 15, 1966
Recorded:October 30, 1960
Studio:RCA Studio B, Nashville
Genre:Gospel
Label:RCA Victor
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"Milky White Way" is a gospel standard written by Lander Coleman, who was a quartet singer for the Coleman Brothers. The song became a million-selling hit record in 1947 when the CBS Trumpeteers, a black quartet from Baltimore, recorded it. In the late 1940s the CBS Trumpeteers had a popular morning radio show over the CBS network called 7:15 A.M.! and "Milky White Way" was their theme song. Elvis Presley also recorded a version on October 30–31, 1960, at RCA's Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee.[1]

A version of the song was released in 2018 on the Paul Poulton album "Heaven".

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wolfe, Charles. Elvis Presley Amazing Grace His Greatest Sacred Performances. 1994. RCA-BMG. 16.