Oh Happy Day (BMG) (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Christian & Gospel  »  Contemp. Gospel
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• Release Date: November 25, 1997
• Label: BMG Special Products
• UPC: 755174451324
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105826904
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #43306 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #16531 in Christian & Gospel (See Top 100 Christian & Gospel Bestsellers)
• #204 in Contemp. Gospel (See Top 100 Contemp. Gospel Bestsellers)

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Additional personnel includes: Dorothy Combs Morrison.

Originally released as a 2 LP set.

There are several excellent Edwin Hawkins best-of compilations around, and they all seem to be called OH HAPPY DAY (the title of Hawkins's career-making 1969 hit). But BMG's concise 10-track collection of the same name is as good as any, focusing as it does on the uplifting, neo-soul gospel the group was turning out in the early '70s.

Hawkins is considered a key figure in updating gospel's church-bound vibe with the more pop-directed sounds of soul and R&B (providing a musical mirror image of what artist's like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin did earlier in '60s when infusing pop forms with gospel styles), and there is plenty of evidence of that here. Still, there's no mistaking the aim of this music: from the lyrics (titles like "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" convey the gist), to the exuberant sounds of the full choir, this is the sound of faith in action.

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