Mahalia Jackson Sings the Songs of Christmas | 
 enlarge | Actor: Mahalia Jackson
Studio: Xenon
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 40 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 000799435625
EAN: 0000799435625
Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 1998
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: **BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED**
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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
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 Good performance, bad mastering December 6, 2008
M.M. (VA, USA)
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.
Audio quality SUB-par August 5, 2008
David Brammer (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!!!
 Nice Mahalia holiday DVD October 19, 2006
Steven (Germany)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Should be good; July 4, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!
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