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pop singles chart " Put Your Hand in the Hand (of the Man)" by Ocean peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1971 and " Oh Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1969. It was the first, and remains, the only gospel song to hit #1 on a U.S. It became a gold record and was the most successful record by a British male in the 1950s in the USA. The record reached #2 on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores survey and #1 in Cashbox's Top 60. Laurie London's version then rose to #1 of the Most Played by Jockeys song list in the USA and went to number three on the R&B charts in 1958. The songwriting on London's record was credited to "Robert Lindon" and "William Henry", which were pseudonyms used by British writers Jack Waller and Ralph Reader, who had used the song in their 1956 stage musical Wild Grows the Heather. The song made the popular song charts in a 1957 recording by English singer Laurie London with the Geoff Love Orchestra, which reached #12 on the UK singles chart in late 1957. Single by Laurie London with the Geoff Love Orchestra and Chorus Laurie London recording "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" It was quickly picked up by both American gospel singers and British skiffle and pop musicians. Warner recorded it on the Elektra album American Folk Songs and Ballads in 1952. įrank Warner performed the song during the 1940s and 1950s, and introduced it to the American folk scene. That version is still available at the Library's American Folklife Center. It was also recorded by other collectors such as Robert Sonkin of the Library of Congress, who recorded it in Gee's Bend, Alabama in 1941. In 1933, it was collected by Frank Warner from the singing of Sue Thomas in North Carolina. The song was first published in the paperbound hymnal Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New in 1927.