On Monday afternoon, Muyiwa, Riversongz and Zoe Oputah performed the top five songs from the Surefish Great Big Gospel Song Sing.

And so in reverse order, the song you voted as your fifth favourite from the Surefish Great Big Gospel Song Sing is People Get Ready.

The song was written by Curtis Mayfield in 1964, originally released by The Impressions, went onto reach number three in the Billboard R&B chart, and was named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 30 greatest songs of all time

The song you voted as your number 4th favourite is Lord I Lift Your Name on High.

Written by Rick Founds nineteen years ago, it is now one of the most popular Christian worship songs across the world, having been included in the lists of most requested Christian songs in the UK, US and Australia since the mid-1990s.

The song you voted as your third favourite is Shackles (Praise You).

Made famous by Mary Mary in 2000, this song has been described as one of the pioneering songs of urban gospel music. It was the first gospel song in five years to enter the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart

Marching

The song chosen in the number two slot is the classic We Are Marching In the Light of God, also known by its Zulu title Siyahamba.

Siyahamba means we are singing, and this song is believed to have been composed in the 1950s by Andries van Tonder, an elder of the Judith Church in South Africa. It was later translated from Afrikaans into Zulu and then arranged into four part harmony in English in the 1980s

Your number one song was sung by Lauren Hill, Whoopi Goldberg and others in Sister Act II but that's not so important! Oh Happy Day is your number one Gospel song.

The song is an Gospel arrangement by Edwin Hawkins of the chorus of an 18th century hymn by English clergyman Phillip Doddridge which was based on Acts 8, verse 35. 

A local radio DJ picked up the song after listening to The Edwin Hawkins Singers perform Oh Happy Day, and it was then released commercially and the rest is history.

Thanks to all who voted,

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