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Sound of the Sixties (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). John Daly narrates a special program on sights and sounds in contemporary and future American life. Stars include Art Carney, Vic Damone, Tony Randall, Mahalia Jackson, Andre Previn and Pat Harrington...
...encores. In Hamburg she had to go back onstage in her street dress and Indian moccasins to sing two final songs. In Berlin the manager of the Sportpalast assured her that he had not heard so much audience noise since Hitler ranted there in 1938. He seemed to prefer Mahalia...
...Although Mahalia had always wanted to visit Israel, as the time for the concert drew near she began to worry: "I never thought about Israel not being Christian...
...manner of the great blues singer Bessie Smith. Occasionally, she stepped away from the microphone to let her big voice boom through the hall without the aid of electronics. When she got to Joshua Fit ae Battle of Jericho, the walls of the auditorium almost came down. Mahalia escaped only by improvising a song: Mahalia's Not Gonna Sing No More...
...been that way ever since 1947 when New Orleans-born Mahalia Jackson recorded a Gospel song called Move On Up a Little Higher for a small record company. The disk sold a whopping 2,000,000 copies, and Mahalia who had sung Gospel songs in neighborhood churches since her childhood, turned her mention from her Chicago beauty shop to push her professional career. From the start audiences recognized her, as did London's New Statesman, as "the most majestic voice of faith" of her generation. The obvious sincerity of Mahalia's belief moves audiences even when they cannot...