This song really inspired us as Black Americans, to let nothing hinder us to achieve, when put Jesus Christ first in our lives. Sheila from Pocomoke City, MdI really admired this awesome man of God.Lynn Olander from Oakland, CaLet's take the gospel EVERYWHERE! Let this song be our anthem and our inspiration as we enter the year 2021!.
An still does, even more so that I am a man of GOD NOW!!
EDWIN HAWKINS ALBUMS 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, My Lord Is Coming Back, Ain’t It Like Him, Jesus Lover Of My Soul, He’s My All And All, Blowin’ In The Wind, Let Us Go Into The House, Listen To The Rain, Early In The Morning, He’s A Friend Of Mine, Blowin’ In The Wind, To My Father’s House, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, He’s Got The Whole World In His Handsĭisc 2 - Concert In Amsterdam contd.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. The single "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" taken from the album was a Top 10 hit for folk singer Melanie on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1970.ĭisc 1 - It’s A Happy Day/ Concert In Amsterdam His arrangement of the song was eventually covered by The Four Seasons on their 1970 album Half & Half.įollowing the success of "Oh Happy Day" the group signed a major record deal with the newly created Pavilion label (distributed by Buddah), and released a second LP, He's A Friend Of Mine, in 1969. The song became an international success, selling more than 7 million copies worldwide, and Hawkins was awarded his first Grammy for it. It crossed over to the pop charts, making No. He was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound.Īs leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers he was probably best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" which achieved sales of more than a million copies within two months in 1969. Edwin Hawkins was an American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger.
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