A Wonderful Time Up There

Pat Boone recording

• In 1958, the song was recorded under the title "A Wonderful Time Up There" by Pat Boone featuring Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra and Chorus. It reached #2 in the U.K. and #4 in the U.S., and was featured on the 1959 album, Pat Boone Sings. The recording was produced by Randy Wood. and ranked #24 on Billboard magazine's Top 50 songs of 1958.
• The B-side to Boone's version, "It's Too Soon to Know", reached #4 in the U.S. and #7 in the U.K. in 1958.

  Other versions

• The Blackwood Brothers Quartet released a version of the song as a single in 1958, but it did not chart.
• Sammy Masters released a version of the song on his 1958 EP.
• Tom Netherton released a version of the song on his 1975 album My Favorite Hymns.
• Wally Fowler released a version of the song as the B-side to his 1977 single "A New Star in Heaven".
• Johnny Cash released a version of the song entitled "Gospel Boogie " on his 1979 album A Believer Sings the Truth.
• Alvin Stardust released a version of the song as a single in 1981 which reached #56 in the U.K.
• Little Roy Lewis released a version of the song on his 1981 album Super Pickin.
• Gold City released a version of the song on their 1995 album Lord Do It Again.
• Bill and Gloria Gaither and Homecoming Friends released a live version of the song on their 2010 album Atlanta Homecoming/All Day Singin’ at the Dome.
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe released a version of the song entitled "Everybody's Gonna Have Wonderful Time " on her 2016 album I Can't Sit down - An Introduction to the Godmother of Rock'n'Roll.