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

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Today, January 27, 2023, marks 51 years of Queen Mahalia Jackson's death. From 1972 to this very moment, her music and life continue to bless people's homes, airwaves, and tv/movie screens! She built such a rich legacy, which is a great foundation for those who wish to share God's message. I hope that you all will enjoy "Didn't It Rain," which is a song she frequently sung, but prior to this video, I've never witnessed her singing the song like this!
Recorded in France in 1968, and accompanied by the Drayton Singers, Charles Clency (Organ), and the late Eddie Robinson (piano).
*No copyright infringement intended. This is being posted for historical purposes.*

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@RyLeeRae 5 күн бұрын

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

@sciontc70 9 ай бұрын

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

@RyLeeRae 5 күн бұрын

I am getting chills from this rendition

@dorianmac7466 2 ай бұрын

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

@RyLeeRae 5 күн бұрын

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

@chrissangit Жыл бұрын

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

@Rowoches Жыл бұрын

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.

@SaraRandazzo-ew4vh 6 ай бұрын

Proud to say. We love her

@anthonyheilbut4912 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@RobertoPoncebk Жыл бұрын

Wow, lady Mahalia Jackson in France!

@kendrickreynardmanningjr8018 Жыл бұрын

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

@sidynitop3948 7 ай бұрын

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

@GilbertoGoncalves-kd6xz Ай бұрын

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

@musiclover4life407 Жыл бұрын

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

@lumberjack297 Жыл бұрын

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

@cJroma316 Жыл бұрын

Hilarious comment 😄 thanks for the laugh.

@matthewhenderson7783 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-vj5ke5uu2d 6 ай бұрын

Dipping Doo held it together.

@bullycatmom Жыл бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@Netbe277 Жыл бұрын

They’ll never be another 💐🫶🏾

@DavidForeman58 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

@chevydude658 Жыл бұрын

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.

@doperasinger 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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.

@agoddessadiva Жыл бұрын

The best!

@williamcleland Жыл бұрын

Rowoches, thanks again! Terrific and unusual.

@Rowoches Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

@MrKITCHENTALK Жыл бұрын

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.

@jamanajohnson-moore8065 Жыл бұрын

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

@JustDewane Жыл бұрын

Oh yes

@ABCDuwachui Жыл бұрын

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

@Rowoches Жыл бұрын

She surely did! Lol!

@Isa-wisa2002 Жыл бұрын

What did she do?

@Rowoches Жыл бұрын

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

@dewaynejohnson2991 4 ай бұрын

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

@JerrellRGray Жыл бұрын

SHOUT, Halie!!

@Rowoches Жыл бұрын

Yessuh!! She was in it, for sure.

@MrErnieFaison Жыл бұрын

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

@MrErnieFaison 10 ай бұрын

Are any of the background singers still alive?

@more8663 Жыл бұрын

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.

@agoddessadiva Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@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. ❤️

@JudahCub1981 Жыл бұрын

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

@jasonbaddboii 6 ай бұрын

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

@JudahCub1981 Ай бұрын

@@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”.