{"id":3558937,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3558937/?format=json","airdate":"2025-09-28T18:12:21-07:00","show":64693,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64693/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/ee6ec1da-2897-496f-9965-f9925deca972/25164232126-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/ee6ec1da-2897-496f-9965-f9925deca972/25164232126-250.jpg","song":"Oh! Happy Day","track_id":null,"recording_id":"64993259-009f-4224-974d-9f28ceb560d4","artist":"Edwin Hawkins Singers","artist_ids":["a3d57b03-9fb7-4eee-9acd-17713803c553"],"album":"Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"96376e6a-ada1-3869-b4a6-93c7a3e6814a","labels":["Buddah Records"],"label_ids":["bc0dc38a-ad1e-4e81-bf13-ce3a94a8f9ef"],"release_date":"1969-04-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Edwin Hawkins and Singers released \"Oh! Happy Day\" in 1969 on Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord, their fourth album with Buddah Records. \n\nEdwin Hawkins was an American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. He was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. \n\nAs leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, he was probably best known for his arrangement of \"Oh Happy Day.\" \n\nThe wonderful gospel song entered the Hot 100 charts in 1969, becoming the first gospel song to make that chart. This reworking of an eighteenth century hymn made the National Registry of the Library of Congress in 2005: https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/EdwinHawkinsEssay.pdf","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}