No horse was as fast in speed as Secretriat was back then when he won the Triple Crown in 1973. Maggie from Hobart, InForgot to mention.Morrison turns 70 years old next month on May 8th. It was the group's only charted record, but Dorothy Morrison had two solo records make the Top 100 "All God's Children Got Soul" (#95 in 1969) and "Spirit In The Sky" (#99 in 1970).Įdwin Hawkins will celebrate his 71st birthday this coming August 18th and Ms. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 20th 1969, "Oh! Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers featuring Dorothy Morrison entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #72 and on May 25th it peaked at #4 (for 2 weeks) and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100.The group also backed up Melanie on her #6 hit in 1970, "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)".Įdwin was elected to the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
They were renamed the Edwin Hawkins Singers when an album was recorded for Pavillion Records. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.īorn in Oakland, he sang in church and family choirs before founding the 46-member Northern California State Youth Choir of the Church of God in Christ. Įdwin Hawkins, leader of the gospel Edwin Hawkins Singers of "Oh Happy Day" fame (#4 in 1969), died Monday (January 15th, 2018) at his home in Pleasanton, California at the age of 74. Both Hawkins and Crouch grew up in the Church of God in Christ denomination in southern California and were choir directors in their respective churches.
#Oh happy day movie#
Christa Hall from Richmond VaWhat movie played this song?.I was - but I also was reading the lyrics." Everyone thought I was feeling the spirit. During the recording, I put up my hands, with my palms facing me. "At the church I wrote two sections on my palms with a pen. "The lyrics were simple and they rhymed, but they were a lot to remember," she said in Anatomy of a Song. She ad-libbed most of it, including a part near the end where she shouts, "good God" (which she got from listening to James Brown), but some of the lyrics she wrote down, just not on paper. Then, unlike the hymn, the first verse repeats, then does so again with Dorothy Morrison interjecting over the choir. The choir comes in for the chorus, offering more praise. The Edwin Hawkins arrangement strips the verses down to: The hymn this is based on has four verses, starting with: Other stations followed, and Buddah Records signed Hawkins to a record deal, putting the album and the "Oh Happy Day" album in wide release. They did attend the conference, and the choir placed second in a singing competition, where they performed two of Hawkins' arrangements, but not "Oh Happy Day," which Hawkins said was "not our favorite song."įive hundred copies of the album were made, and one of them found its way to the popular DJ Abe "Voco" Kesh at KSAN-FM in San Francisco, who put it in rotation. The tracks were quickly recorded live in church on a two-track tape machine (industry standard at the time was eight-track), but the records weren't pressed in time for the trip. In an Octointerview with the San Francisco Chronicle, he explained that "Oh Happy Day" was one of eight arrangements he put together for his Northern California State Youth Choir, which was made up of 46 singers ages 17 to 25, and the plan was to sell an album of the songs to finance a trip to a church youth conference in Washington, D.C.
#Oh happy day full#
Comes with full mix and soundtrack version.Edwin Hawkins was a pianist at Ephesian Church of God in Christ in Berkeley, California when he came up with the popular Latin/soul version of this song that he recorded there in the summer of 1968. What a happy day it is when He washes our sin away. This uptempo song is all about celebrating the life we have through Christ.
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