Precious Memories (hymn)
Precious Memories is a traditional gospel song credited to J. B. F. Wright in 1925. Wright was born in Tennessee, February 21, 1877. It has been performed by a wide variety of famous recording artists including Tammy Wynette, Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Daniel O'Donnell, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, a duet by George Jones & Patti Page, Jim Reeves, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, J. J. Cale, and James Blackwood's quartet.
Dolly Parton recorded the song on her 1999 Dollywood-exclusive album benefitting the Dollywood Foundation, Precious Memories. Her sister, Stella Parton, recorded the song for her gospel album Appalachian Gospel.
A cover by The Stanley Brothers can be heard on Rick Grimes' radio at the beginning of The Walking Dead fourth-season premiere episode, "30 Days Without An Accident". Susan Raye's cover was in the opening and closing credits sequences of Paul Schrader's crime drama, Hardcore .
An acappella version was recorded by "The Freedom Singers" fronm Boston Church of Christ in 1988
A version by Sister Rosetta Tharpe was played in the opening credits to the 1990 film, To Sleep with Anger.
Aretha Franklin recorded a live version of the song for her album Amazing Grace and Ronnie Milsap for his album Then Sings My Soul.
