" Oh Happy Day," released as a single, makes a swift run up the chart, peaking at #4 on May 31. When a DJ at the San Francisco gospel station KSAN got a copy, he put " Oh Happy Day" in rotation, and word spread to other stations, including secular ones, that also started playing the song.īuddah Records signed Hawkins and gave the album a proper release, renaming the choir The Edwin Hawkins Singers because of resistance from the church. Recorded at Ephesian Church in Berkeley, it was part of an album called Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord the choir sold to congregants to raise money for a trip. Hawkins recorded the song with a youth choir he assembled from churches around northern California. " Oh Happy Day" by The Edwin Hawkins Singers enters the Hot 100 at #72, becoming the first pure gospel song to make that chart.
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