This CD is being sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. You can purchase an mp3 version of Oh Happy Day at the Amazon mp3 store. Gospel music has evolved over decades ...

Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74.Hawkins died at his home in Pleasanton, ...

NEW YORK — Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74. Hawkins died at his home in ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74. Hawkins died at his ...

Edwin Hawkins' "Oh Happy Day" was an accidental hit. The song, a gospel-style rework of an 18th century hymn, starts with a jazzy drum beat and a kind of blues pop piano groove. Dorothy Morrison, who ...

Hawkins was best known for his groundbreaking gospel arrangements and won four Grammys over the course of his career. He is credited with transforming the contemporary gospel music scene into what it ...

(AP) — Along with Andrae Crouch, James Cleveland and a handful of others, Hawkins was credited as a founder of modern gospel music. NEW YORK (AP) — Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the ...

Reporting from New York — Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74. Hawkins died ...