Mahalia Jackson in rare form singing "Didn't It Rain"

[@alanhudson2999]

She had a beautiful voice n sang her heart out but she especially known as a servant serving people, cooking, cleaning, feeding the poor, clothing the naked she did what the Master taught bless her heart 💜 RIP Queen Mahalia

[@dorianmac7466]

All the years I've been followingMahalia..firsttimeI've seen this; Thank You.

[@RyLeeRae]

This is a first time for me too I love it!

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

She has one she danced out her clothes and was dancing like Elvis

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

Those ppl off rhythm in audience

[@Netbe277]

@@HeavenlyBridegroomMusicI don’t believe it🤦🏾‍♀️

[@sciontc70]

Like David, Sister Mahalia dancing before the Lord with all her heart. Holy woman with a Holy Dance.

[@RyLeeRae]

It’s her voice that does it. I am listening without watching and the chills are still coming

[@SaraRandazzo-ew4vh]

Proud to say. We love her

[@chrissangit]

I recognize members of mighty clouds of Joy up there with her Love Mahalia!!

[@Rowoches]

That's actually a group called The Drayton Singers. The late Girard Drayton is the founder, and he's the one on the far right. He's originally from Baltimore, which is where I'm originally from also.

[@RobertoPoncebk]

Wow, lady Mahalia Jackson in France!

[@sidynitop3948]

Depois dela nada existiu igual....apenas imitações....e nunca mais existira foi grande no seu tempo...e tudo.fazia pro Senhor !!!

[@GilbertoGoncalves-kd6xz]

Verdade realmente ela não era desse mundo RS, maior cantora Gospel de todos o milênio, como disse o pastor Martin Lutter King

[@anthonyheilbut4912]

This is the only time a camera caught Mahalia shouting/ doing the holy dance. One reason may be her quartet background. Though it's rarely noticed, Mahalia was steeped in the quartet tradition. Eugene Smith of the Roberta Martin Singers remembered the Prince Johnson Singers (with whom Jackson rocked Chicago in the mid-30s) as a "quartet group," essentially a quartet with piano accompaniment as opposed to a gospel group like the Martins (Roberta or Sallie) or Wards. Eddie Robinson looks mighty serious at the keyboard.

[@JudahCub1981]

That makes sense why she was good at choir arrangements and directing. You jogged my memory - I read somewhere she used to work with a choir at a St. Lukes Baptist Church I think it was called.

[@williamcleland]

Hello Mr. Heilbut. I first came across your name on the liner notes of Mahalia's Garden of Prayer. The year I got that album was June 1967. I've read The Gospel Sound and followed your work over many decades. Good to hear from you.

[@RyLeeRae]

I am getting chills from this rendition

[@nyeshamclilly7524]

She's looks wonderful 😍 💕

[@MarieHolliday]

She was medically sick but she sang for God until he called her home

[@KingChijioke]

Loooooooooved this I’m a big fan this is my first time seeing this ❤❤❤

[@markherron1407]

This is the FIRST time I've seen Mahalia Jackson backed up by male chorus in a live concert ,usually you hear them on records on CD, today it was raining and I got soaking wet by throwing trash in the compactor at my job Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜

[@kendrickreynardmanningjr8018]

Reat in Peace ✌ Mahalia jackson 💚 the Queen of gospel..

[@bullycatmom]

I absolutely love this! Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos you post. I don't want us to ever lose sight of all of the great pioneers and the music they did. It is priceless and far too many people are oblivious to them. Again, thank you Sir!

[@Rowoches]

You are so welcome!

[@musiclover4life407]

Mahalia was feeling it. I got worried about her wig. Hair pins made by Jesus.

[@lumberjack297]

God shut the door to the ark, and, yes, clamped the pins on her wig. His arm is strong 💪

[@cJroma316]

Hilarious comment 😄 thanks for the laugh.

[@matthewhenderson7783]

That was the dumbest thing I have ever read, and so were the replies. Ignorance loves company.

[@musichaf]

Dipping Doo held it together.

[@Netbe277]

@@musichafyou’re old 🤣

[@GraylingForReal]

She did that She looks amazing!

[@ABCDuwachui]

3:14 hahaha she got ‘em straightened out in a split second!

[@Rowoches]

She surely did! Lol!

[@Isa-wisa2002]

What did she do?

[@Rowoches]

@@Isa-wisa2002 She skipped a beat so they could get on beat.

[@dewaynejohnson2991]

Exactly 🙌🏾other musicians in the chat, if they had been in tempo it would've been immaculate

[@DavidForeman58]

Omg thank you for sharing this!!! I love to see Mahalia go into a dance! For so long, all we saw was her singing slow and mournfully. But this gives people the side of Mahalia a lot of people need to see! Thank you! I love this!

[@Rowoches]

You're very welcome

[@chevydude658]

When I was 14 yes old, my father pastored a Church of God church that had some missionaries that were close to 80. They told me “Mahalia Jackson came and sang at their prayer breakfast. I wanna tell you when she opened her mouth to sing a powerful fire fell all in that place. It came down like a thunder and people were shouting everywhere. The hand of God was one her in an unusual way.” We grew up listening to her music. My dad said she was one of the greatest musical evangelists that ever lived.

[@Netbe277]

@@chevydude658You’re dad stated only facts 🙋🏾‍♀️

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

Mahalia!❤

[@doperasinger]

She truly is a Diva Assoluta………nothing she can’t do. I just pray she treads carefully…we want to hear her for a long time

[@Rowoches]

Ms. Jackson has been gone from earth for over 50 years now, but her music and influence will continue to live through those who love and appreciative her life and music.

[@Netbe277]

@@RowochesAnd It Will. Gone But Neva Forgotten 💐♥️

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

I love her❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Netbe277]

They’ll never be another 💐🫶🏾

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

That Spirit may visit another...

[@williamcleland]

Rowoches, thanks again! Terrific and unusual.

[@Rowoches]

You're very welcome

[@jamanajohnson-moore8065]

Cool. I heard this recording before but I needed a visual to go with it. 🤎🤞🏽

[@lydiadoumon6781]

She gave it all in the name of Jesus 🔔🔔🔔❤️❤️❤️

[@MrErnieFaison]

It was coming on her right about here. 4:40

[@MrErnieFaison]

Are any of the background singers still alive?

[@agoddessadiva]

The best!

[@JustDewane]

Oh yes

[@MrKITCHENTALK]

This is the Sallie Martin Singers Version as well as that 1969 Harlem version of Lord Search My Heart I don't know what the Dayton's are doing but baby that all she needed was them two at the end who knew Saillie's Version hype her up and she took off.

[@more8663]

SHE WAS A REVIVALIST, LIKE DAVID , SHE BLESSED THE LORD WITH ALL THAT WAS IN HER UNTIL HER LAST BREATH. THE CULTURAL MINDSET WAS VERY MILD, BUT GOD IN HIS PERFECT KNOWLEDGE PLACE HER IN THAT GENERATION TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF BEING EVEN MORE INDIGIFIED THAN THIS.

[@JerrellRGray]

SHOUT, Halie!!

[@Rowoches]

Yessuh!! She was in it, for sure.

[@נטשהבםקיןגראף]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

She had gone Hollywood. Elvis hair and clothes became skimpier.skimping. I still love her.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@mrakennedy]

Everything that Elvis did was inspired by someone else, including his music. Not the other way around.

[@JudahCub1981]

I can really see why she upset those ministers back in the 30s… LOL! Those were not churchy steps. I love it! ❤❤❤

[@jasonbaddboii]

It looked pretty holy to me it’s that shape that was the problem she was shaped up brick house

[@JudahCub1981]

@@jasonbaddboiiI hear you… but in the 1930s she was much smaller and even more agile…and a BAPTIST… so those ministers back then weren’t having all of that switching in the pulpit. Even her adopted son, Bro. John Sellers said that even the pastors that did like Mahalia made her wear robes because she was such a “mover”… known as “Snake Hips Halie”.

[@alancard67]

Ms Jackson out there looking Glam like Ella

[@DonyaeeSmithh]

Do you by chance have any additional footage of her funeral? I’ve been specifically trying to find Bessie Griffin’s tribute to her at the funeral and have had no luck

[@Rowoches]

Unfortunately, I don't have any additional footage. It would definitely be nice see both services...the one in Chicago and the one in New Orleans. I believe Bessie Griffin sung at the service in New Orleans, and from what I read, she sung herself happy!

[@chrisintoronto7137]

The Roots of Trance!

[@agoddessadiva]

Do you have the “There’s Only One Bridge” album by Rev Cleophus Robinson? If so will you post it’s. I have searching for it for years.

[@Rowoches]

A lot of Cleophus Robinson's stuff that I had posted over the years was removed due to Copyrights, so I really don't plan to post a lot of his stuff. The same thing with a few other artists. I've seen the THERE'S ONLY ONE BRIDGE album on eBay quite a bit over the years, and I think I may have a copy. I'll have to look. Please give me some time and I'll also look for the other song you asked me about.

[@agoddessadiva]

@@Rowoches Thank you. That song that I asked about is on the “There’s Only One Bridge”album. I thought it was on the other album that I asked about. I’m sorry for any confusion that I may have caused. ❤️

[@OFFCODEV2]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2annGuBbbl1jsUsi=zQwJdU9nuMpOe5Be its the gospel song at the beginning, I can't find it anywhere or any info

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

Dude in back watching because he is wondering what's up.

[@NavarinoDC]

How can the audience just sit there so stone-faced?

[@mrpeach2023]

They were white Europeans. They didn’t understand the power that comes with black gospel singing.

[@sandyjuntunen4088]

Probably white Baptists or another denomination that didn't express any feeling except a clap or an Amen. Very formal believers.

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

Where is that dress now I wonder.

[@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic]

Elvis hair.