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Yeah, yeah, California State Youth Choir, currently known as the Hawkins singers from Katie, I held onto the number one spot for four consecutive weeks and now the Edwin Hawkins singers, number three from the survey doing they're seeing all over the 50. Oh, happy day. Mhm Happy

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days. Oh yes, or Happy Day when jesus award. Mhm Wait, any war when jesus wash my sins away happening there. Mm hmm. Thank you. Song Dorothy Morrison win the war 100 way a visit. Yeah, yeah. What happened? Because I feel it was time

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to happen, especially with the situation of the world today problems people are having, they don't believe in God anymore. A lot of people, uh, they don't go to church and uh, especially our youth, this generation, uh, today is really messed up, confused. They don't know who

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to turn to which way to go. So they're trying this and that and they're not finding satisfaction. And I feel with young people such as our group, we can show them that God yet lives and instead of us trying to take the gospel to them maybe

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by preaching to them, take it to them in song maybe. And uh, with contemporary sounds, new beats, new rhythms and uh, something they can understand, something they can feel and express themselves in. Um, a lot of them aren't going to church. So maybe we should just

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take the church to them, ed what effect has all this sudden fame and fortune had on the young people in the choir and yourself has it changed people at all? I can truthfully say that they've gone through many changes that you can outwardly see and especially

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myself, I can only speak for myself. I don't think I've changed because I haven't really don't think it's yet hit me with a full impact but it's a lot of excitement going on and I'm very happy about it and I feel that I can contribute something

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to the world if I'm allowed to Dorothy, why did you leave the northern California state youth choir or the Ed Hawkins singer as the group is now now. Well my well potential of this thing was to sing and to be heard by

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someone that want to regard me and this is what you know the whole thing is and so finally someone heard me and this is my reef with the leader, no hard feelings it out. What are you going to do now Dorothy? Well, I intend to ah

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I did sign a contract with Elektra and I will be singing with that company. What about concert appearances? Will you be available for those? Yes, I believe so. I will be doing solo things with on different concerts. Do you have plans to form a group of

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your own or will you sing with different groups? Well I am available to sing with different quiet you know um but I won't have anything you know a group of my own. Are you going to stick to Gospel or will you follow in the footsteps of

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Aretha perhaps who came out of the choir and and there's the, the empress of Soul today? Well I believe there's a lot of soul in the Gospel and I will stick to that religious power. You said there are no hard feelings. Is that really true? There's

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no bitterness even after ball is hassle has been going on for the past few weeks. Right, I love them and every time we see one another we really hug and kiss and whatever, you know, so we know how it's going at all. That's true. Uh myself

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and Dorothy, were you good friends as we were before and Dorothy has gone out on her own and the kids are happy about this if she's happy, I'm happy and I wish a lot of success, but you want to make it clear that the choir is

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still together and you have some other people in it Right. Right. Such as Tremaine is a great soloist route Lions their soloist on the number called Joy Joy? Yeah, Okay, Mhm I understand yeah. Uh huh Yeah