Word: mahalia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bringing up Robertson's own involvement in an Army homosexual scandal. Director Franklin Schaffner further dissipates the film's climactic confrontation scene with Robertson's old Army buddy, letting TV Comic Shelley Berman play the role mostly for laughs. Appearances by Edie Adams, Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson, Commentators Howard K. Smith and John Henry Faulk, and Vidal himself (as a Senator) range from agreeable to irrelevant. Margaret Leighton, at loose ends in a truncated role as Fonda's wife, somehow suggests that she is running for the throne of England...
...BEST ON RECORD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An entertainment special presented under the auspices of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, featuring winners of the academy's "Grammy award. Among them: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Mahalia Jackson...
Lonely Island. Now to the platform came Singer Mahalia Jackson. First she sang a slow, sorrowful Gospel song titled I've Been Buked and I've Been Scorned. Her voice was marvelous, but her impact was more in her manner. Near tears, she moved her huge audience to tears. But in the very next breath, she would break into an expression of expectant happiness. When that happened, people who had been sobbing a second before began laughing, sharing in her expectancy...
...Mahalia was hard to follow-and there probably was only one person in the civil rights world who could have done it quite so successfully. His introduction was drowned out by the roaring cheers of those who saw him heading toward the speakers' platform. He was Atlanta's Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who holds the heart of most American Negroes in his hand...
...been hearing it for years, sung with devotion by such groups as the Clara Ward Singers, the Stars of Faith and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Recently, its spirit and style and shouts of "Yeah!" (but rarely the rest of the lyrics) have crept into popular music, but only Mahalia Jackson has been popularly successful with the pure version. A couple of years ago, Brother John Sellers and the Grandison Singers became the first to sing gospel in nightclubs. A thin flock of groups followed, some complaining bitterly that cheating preachers had driven them into it by failing to part...