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2000 LYFH
RIP
Oh Happy Day was the inspiration for George Harrison's My Sweet Lord
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Big AlQuote
2000 LYFH
RIP
Oh Happy Day was the inspiration for George Harrison's My Sweet Lord
I thought it was He's So Fine by the Chiffons?
I think poor Melanie didn't even make it to the CD market.Quote
hopkins
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"Talk about your one hit wonders..." --
Well, sort of, yes, but they did get credit, and ten tons of Hit air-play, also with promotional live performances,
ALL of them together as they're doing here w this one:
"Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
Two Hit Wonder? This was HUGE and world-wide:
Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers Live in 1970
The vid poster writes this to accompany the video:
"The audience~ somewhat self conscious but joy was in the air. 1 in 3 households in The Netherlands had a Melanie album..."
RIP Mr. Hawkins; thank you for so many thrills and bringing such grand music to the charts.
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marianna
"O Happy Day" may have partly inspired Paul Simon to write "Bridge Over Troubled Water, " as well. PS claimed to have been inspired by an older gospel song, but Edwin's song was a hit around the time Bridge was written. It was the first of Jesus-themed songs to have success on AM radio in the next few years . "My Sweet Lord, two hit singles from the musical "Jesus Christ, Superstar," Ocean's "Put Your Hand In The Hand of the Man," two different versions of "Jesus is Just Alright" (Byrds and Doobie Bros.), and a hit single from "Godspell."
The only other gospel group mainstream AM hit I can think of, that was a bit later (mid-'70s), was the disco-gospel song "Mighty High," by the Mighty Clouds of Joy.
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marianna
"O Happy Day" may have partly inspired Paul Simon to write "Bridge Over Troubled Water, " as well. PS claimed to have been inspired by an older gospel song, but Edwin's song was a hit around the time Bridge was written. It was the first of Jesus-themed songs to have success on AM radio in the next few years . "My Sweet Lord, two hit singles from the musical "Jesus Christ, Superstar," Ocean's "Put Your Hand In The Hand of the Man," two different versions of "Jesus is Just Alright" (Byrds and Doobie Bros.), and a hit single from "Godspell."
The only other gospel group mainstream AM hit I can think of, that was a bit later (mid-'70s), was the disco-gospel song "Mighty High," by the Mighty Clouds of Joy.