Silent Night

Mahalia Jackson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025SO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,700 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Out-of-print in the US.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glad I found this for my own collection..., September 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Silent Night (Audio CD)

I remember hearing about Mahalia Jackson from my father. He always talked about how powerful her voice was. I don't recall hearing her recordings, but one Christmas I found this CD in a budget holiday music display at K-Mart. I had the perfect gift for Dad. He played the CD shortly after opening it, and I was stunned. My father had been right! After finally accepting that fact, I enjoyed listening to the music.

It isn't uncommon for me to call my parents and hear this recording playing (whether it is Christmas time or not) in the background. In an age where the term "music" is sometimes questionable, this is such a gem of real musical talent and holiday spirit. You can forget that you are listening to gospel Christmas songs, and just enjoy the swelling music and the lush soaring and and calm interludes in her music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I play it all year long, June 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Silent Night (Audio CD)

Very good recording of her holiday songs. Powerful stuff, especially A Star Stood Still. You can not get much better in all of music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ethereal "Silent Night", January 6, 2007

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William V. Cleland - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silent Night (Audio CD)

Mahalia Jackson's rendition of "Silent Night" on this album is the most incredibly beautiful and stirring that I have ever heard in my life! I've seen and heard Mahalia do this song in other places and recordings but never with the power conveyed here. The recording itself captures her voice in a splendid moment frozen in time. She paces the song according to that mysterious inner cadence governed apparently from above, according to Mahalia Jackson. It is slow, passionate and almost gut-wrenching. Three other magnificent performances on here are "A Star Stood Still, Sweet Little Jesus Boy, and What Can I Give?" These four jewels round out the holiday season, transporting the listener out of the grotesque orgy of commercialism and fake sentimentality of the Christmas season. She "restores our souls," heals broken hearts and magnifies the good within humanity. Her singing really is a "balm in Gilead. . . "