Word: mahalia
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...stand by helplessly and watch his ex-wives and the Internal Revenue Service compete for his paycheck. For the past three months Louis, 56, has been hospitalized in Denver with an emotional disorder. This week brought a glimmer of cheer at last. Louis' friends and admirers-among them: Mahalia Jackson, Bill Cosby, B.B. King and Redd Foxx -plan a benefit "Salute to the Champ...
...FOLK GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A contemporary gospel music special featuring Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, Clara Walker and the Gospel Redeemers...
...black woman who gets bleached in Morning. She shakes off her origins and becomes a haughty, fake-elegant white woman; irrepressibly, she grabs a microphone and begins warbling a song, White Like Me. But before she has finished, all the skin has been stripped away, and in a manic Mahalia Jackson finish she delivers a jolt of straight soul in the most brilliant transformation since Zero Mostel became a rhinoceros...
...public at Atlanta's Regency Hyatt House Hotel. It was not the first such incident. White, 37, a former dabbler in Detroit real estate and a street-corner wheeler-dealer, has come a long way since he married Aretha and took over the management of her career. Sighs Mahalia Jackson: "I don't think she's happy. Somebody else is making her sing the blues." But Aretha says nothing, and others can only speculate on the significance of her singing lyrics like these...
Hollers & Blues. Negroes have been sifting their sorrows in songs like this for centuries. It started, says Mahalia Jackson, who is now 56, with "the groans and moans of the people in the cotton fields. Before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?...