Product Details

• Actors: Mahalia Jackson
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Xenon
• DVD Release Date: November 8, 2005
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BFH2VE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,803 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Audio quality SUB-par, August 4, 2008

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David Brammer "EBB" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mahalia Jackson Sings the Songs of Christmas (DVD)

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 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Mahalia holiday DVD, October 19, 2006

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Steven "sweethotpepper" (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mahalia Jackson Sings the Songs of Christmas (DVD)

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 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be good;, July 4, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mahalia Jackson Sings the Songs of Christmas (DVD)

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!