Red (Clyde) Foley and The Sunshine Boys Quartet (Fred Daniel, Ace Richman, JD Sumner and Fred Wallace) reached number five on the Country chart with "Peace In The Valley" (Thomas A. Dorsey) in 1951. It was composed for Mahalia Jackson but Red had the hit. This was one of few gospel recordings to sell a million at that time. Composer Thomas A. Dorsey was known as Blues Georgia Tom and also wrote "Take My Hand, Precious Lord".

Elvis Presley issued "Peace In The Valley" with the Jordanaires on his first Christmas album. Elvis then sang "Peace In The Valley" on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957. Wikipedia: "what followed after his singing the song immediately after his requesting those watching his third and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, on January 6 of that year, to send emergency aid for some 250,000 refugees fleeing Hungary after the late October 1956 double invasion of that country by the then Soviet Union, the song, which in addition Elvis dedicated to the refugees as the show's finale and to a television audience estimated at 50 million, yielded over the next 11 months contributions amounting to US$6 million, or the equivalent of US$49.5 million in 2017 dollars. The International Red Cross in Geneva, with the help of the US Army, organized the distribution of both perishables and non perishables purchased with the above-mentioned funds, to the refugees in both Vienna and London, where they settled, along with their families. for life." My wife entered Canada as a Hungarian refugee at that time.