Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers {Stereo} 1969

1969......#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #2 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #1 UK Singles Chart, #2 Canada, #1 Germany, #1 France
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"Oh Happy Day" is a 1967 gospel music arrangement of the 1755 hymn by clergyman Philip Doddridge. Recorded by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, it became an international hit in 1969, reaching No. 4 on the US Singles Chart, No. 1 in France, Germany, and the Netherlands and No. 2 on the Canadian Singles Chart, UK Singles Chart, and Irish Singles Chart. It has since become a gospel music standard.
The recording begins with a muted piano, drum, and bass, backing lead singer Dorothy Combs Morrison on the left-hand stereo channel, then alternates twice with a full-throated chorus that includes a large ensemble, rising to a crescendo with handclaps, and ending with a return to the muted sound as at the beginning. The track is notable for its clear sound given the powerful vocals and the modest equipment used to capture them. It was made at Hawkins' church, the Ephesian Church of God in Christ in Berkeley, California.
The gospel style arrangement of the hymn "Oh, Happy Day" by Edwin Hawkins has a long pedigree. It began as a hymn, written in the mid-18th century ("O happy day, that fixed my choice"), by English clergyman Philip Doddridge (based on Acts 8:35) set to a 1704 melody by J. A. Freylinghausen. By the mid-19th century it had been given a new melody by Edward F. Rimbault, who also added a chorus, and was commonly used for baptismal or confirmation ceremonies in the UK and USA. The 20th century saw its adaptation from 3:4 to 4:4 time and this new arrangement by Hawkins, which contains only the repeated Rimbault refrain, with all of the original verses being omitted.
The B-side of the single was Hawkins' own modern arrangement of "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" originally written by Charles Wesley in 1740.
Hawkins rearranged the hymn to give it more of a gospel feel, and devised a piano introduction which he said was influenced by the music of Sérgio Mendes. When the choir made the recording in 1967, lead singer Dorothy Morrison added some lyrical improvisations influenced by James Brown, which, she said, "made the song feel even more current".
Hawkins' arrangement quickly became a “standard” and has been recorded by hundreds of artists. It was included on the RIAA Songs of the Century list and won Hawkins a Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance in 1970 (performed by the Edwin Hawkins Singers).
In live performances and acoustic versions of the Nick Cave song "Deanna" (1988), portions of "Oh Happy Day" are included, revealing the inspiration for Cave's song. George Harrison has stated the song was a primary inspiration in the writing of his 1970 international hit single "My Sweet Lord."
The song has appeared in many movies, beginning with the German film Seventeen and Anxious [de] in 1970, but most notably Whoopi Goldberg's Sister Act 2, with then 14-year-old Ryan Toby singing lead. The song also appears in Big Momma's House, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, David LaChapelle's 2005 movie Rize, Robin Williams’s 2007 movie License to Wed, the 2010 biographical film produced by Walt Disney Pictures: Secretariat (played when Secretariat wins the Belmont), and Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman.
The Edwin Hawkins Singers' performance of the song at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival appears in the 2021 music documentary, Summer of Soul.
The song is regularly performed by space-rock band Spiritualized as the last song of their live sets.

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Here I am, sitting and contemplating the day the hour in which we live. There could be a revival of salvation for sinners in these last hours. A harvest even into the corners of the field. Leave nothing for gleaners for it will be the last call.

There is such things as a last call.
If I were to a short text as a starting point for this message
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Hebrews 12:25-29

The Unshaken Kingdom

25 See to it that you do not refuse [to listen to] Him who is speaking [to you now]. For if those [sons of Israel] did not escape when they refused [to listen to] him who warned them on earth [revealing God’s will], how much less will we escape if we turn our backs on Him who warns from heaven?

26 His voice shook the earth [at Mount Sinai] then, but now He has given a promise, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the [starry] heaven.”

27 Now this [expression], “Yet once more,” indicates the removal and final transformation of all those things which can be shaken—that is, of that which has been created—so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, and offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with reverence and awe;

29 for our God is [indeed] a consuming fire.
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We are entering some dark days, not only because we are moving in Fall Season, but because evil men do their deeds in the dark.

The Israelis set Charlie Kirk up for death. Then [tHey] had a patsy to make it appear as though another transgendered person was responsible for this senseless murder. The kid in Utah is not the shooter.

[tHey] want lawlessness on the streets this winter. One of the many reasons our troops are in 19 cities nationwide.

Many things will be shaken. Only those things destined to be shaken and fall. Let not your faith to anyone or anything except the Lord Jesus Christ.

Attach your God given faith to Jesus and Jesus alone. You know God gave you that faith so you could believe.

I’m in continual prayer, greater faith greater faith. Pray with me.

“Increase my faith to see new understanding.”

The Salvation Experience Is An Awakening

Ask Jesus to look you over.
Everyone ask Jesus to look you over.

Jesus is perfect gentleman. He doesn’t scowl or even look offended. If you’re ready to off load a dark area in your life. Give it to him. He knows what do with it.

As most of you it took me three weeks of pointing at dark sinful spots until I thought I would turn to pure air.

I’d cry I was so sorry I ever mixed up with this and that. Jesus would take that one away. And we’d laugh and have a shouting Hallelujah fit until I would horse. Then I’d point at another area in my life. It is exhausting to face yourself with Jesus present.

I just started dropping bad habits offensive gestures.

I will admit I had a hell of a time but Jesus finally conquered my wayward heart.

Gave me a sweet sweet Spirit.

Today I’d do anything for Jesus.

Come this good and holy way. I’ve never regretted Jesus.

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