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Long playing record album jacket front cover. "Let us go into the house of the Lord". On cover: "BPS-10001 Stereo Oh happy day/ Joy, joy Pavilion To my father's house. The Edwin Hawkins Singers Let us go into the house of the Lord. *Formerly the Northern California State Youth Choir". Cover features image of light shining through dense forest trees. -- The Edwin Hawkins Singers began as The Northern California State Youth Choir founded in 1967 by Hawkins and Betty Watson, its members aged 17–25. As was common in gospel circles they produced and distributed their own LP: Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord, recorded live in church. "Oh Happy Day", featuring Dorothy Morrison as lead vocalist, was picked up by a local DJ and subsequently released commercially. Aretha Franklin had already brought strong gospel stylings to the pop charts with songs such as "Think" (1968), but a hymn had never “crossed over” before. "Oh Happy Day" soared into the US Top 5, winning a Grammy and massive sales worldwide. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Happy_Day]
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1 sound disk Contemporary Gospel long-playing records
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