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Product Details:
Actors:
Mahalia Jackson
Format:
Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
Xenon
Run Time:
40 minutes
DVD Release Date:
November 08, 2005
Average Customer Rating:
based on 4 reviews
Description:
Originally intended as musical vignettes for CBS’s 1960-61 television season, these performances have been digitally mastered for optimum sound and picture quality from the original 16mm Kinescopes. This is Mahalia Jackson at her most powerful, performing, such holiday classics as "Silent Night", "The Lord’s Prayer", "Sweet Little Jesus Boy", "O Come, All Ye Faithful" and many, many more
Customer Reviews:
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Good performance, bad masteringDec 06, 2008 As the amazon description notes, this DVD contains a TV special recorded back in the early 60's. It seems to be a complete show and it is simply introduced as "Mahalia Sings". It is a B&W video and it has 13 chapters. Mahalia wears a choir robe during the show and she performs against a church setting. I can not tell if it's a live performance since the sound is very poor, basically transferred from a analog tape to a DVD without any cleaning or mastering. The video quality is OK for the age of the video. And since this is a bargain release I did not expect much. It was nice to see Mahalia performing Christmas classics.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Audio quality SUB-parAug 05, 2008 Not to detract from Ms. Jackson's incredible talent, whoever created this DVD was asleep at the wheel.
The audio quality is... well, horrible. Absolutely, horrible.
On the back, it says "Audio remastered at 'SoundScape'". I will watch for that name and never buy anything remastered by 'SoundScape'.
I hope this is helpful to someone, I don't want anyone buying this DVD thinking they are going to get excell..., not excellent, just average audio quality would have been OK with me!!!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Nice Mahalia holiday DVDOct 19, 2006 Here comes a chrismas song DVD of Mahalia Jackson's TV-concerts in the 1950/60ies b/w as areissue of her XENON-video in good quality for a good price.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Should be good;Jul 04, 2006 I listen to Mahalia Jackson Christmas music every winter and I just cant get enough of her.She has an good voice and can really sing so this dvd should include some of her best Christmas songs icluding;O Come All Ye Faithful,Joy To The World,Hark The Herald Angels Sing,Away in an Manger,and Sweet Little Jesus Boy.If thats on here I dont know though than this would be an real classic and would definetly spice up the holiday seasons!
based on 4 reviews
