Claude says:Norman Greenbaum is the Massachusetts folk singer who struck gold in 1969 with "Spirit in the Sky" — a song with a Christian theme written by a man raised in an Orthodox Jewish household, inspired by watching Porter Wagoner on TV and the dusty morality of Western movies. The updated studio version got the full treatment: double-tracked vocals, gospel backup singers, and pulsing electric guitar that turned a simple acoustic demo into a worldwide number one. You gave it a handful of plays across 2017 to 2019, mostly landing on that immortal title track, but it never quite stuck around.