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  • she is premier gospel singer. hands down she is the best, when i die it better be this some that they sing at my funeral. although i may not know what going on because i am gone but i will rest in peace. no one is better.

  • Keep on praising. GOD is good all the time. Amen.

  • uhuhuh........her love 4 christ i felt

  • Does anyone know when this was originally recorded?

  • I LOVE THIS SONG,SUCH AS ALL THE OTHER SONGS MAHALIA JACKSON SINGS.

  • Must be played at my funeral memorial service. Must!

  • Mahalia is the only gospel singer that I literally stop to hear everytime. The woman had a true gift from God.

  • 2:08 that downslide is amazing. very difficult to do that and make it sound musical, to not make it sound comical.

  • did you know that gospel music was seen as pure evil when it was invented?

    probably by those who were jealous of the ones who invented it.

    and then once gospel was acceptable, jazz became the scape-goat, the arbitrary evil of the day.

    there's always someone to say that something is evil. it keeps the followers busy with futile debates. keeps the attention away from real problems.

  • exactly its in her voice...her voice sends chills everytime i hear her voice...and yet makes me calm

  • She is so beautiful:'O<3

  • I wrote and performed this song...in response to Wade in the Water....God bless Mahalia, for inspiration to countless thousands.

  • these are the songs of LOVE, OF VICTORY, OF SUSTAINING FAITH AND JOY AND PEACE DISPITE THE CIRCUMSTANCE....GOD BLESS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT SINGER A VESSEL OF CHRIST FOR I KNOW HE WATCHES OVER US ALL. 

  • AWSOME!

  • ORIGINAL! (:

  • She sings it from her heart. She was truly an instrument to God's word.

  • Haunting... My grandmother sings just like this..

  • sorry for the mispelling of "rocking," this OVR mode on my computer is insane!  I can't turn it off.

  • This makes me miss my granny. I can see rocherking in her chair, reading her bible. Ella Murphy rules, and heaven is better for having her

  • Just listen to her love of the Lord, it melts away all of the negative Posts. Her voice is a gift from God. If people were busy with their own gifts they wouldn't be writing negative comments about such an awe inspiring voice of passion that Mahalia has.

  • i am very humble and i know i am a sinner...i thank God for creating people like Mahalia Jackson....she makes me do the right thing and the word of THe Lord is the only word...i must bow down and leave all my pain and hatred and rage

  • now this woman can sing

  • @SEXYLADY23ful She can indeed! We've been blessed to have singers like her--and to have recordings so we can listen again and again.

  • the origins of praise preceeds us all, thankn you lord for mahalia and her ability to move us all closer to you......i sing because i'm happy....i sing because god made me free.

  • Liquid Voice! love it...

  • Some people just have nothing better to do than be negative. It is a shame that people are not more positive. Mahalia Jackson is a treasure.

  • Amazing!! truly joyful praise.!! thank you

  • marvelous

  • 8 people don't know that they have God's eye upon them and he is watching them and cares for them:)

  • I just sang this at church tonight. I love this song and Mahalia is the best. God really blessed her and used her to touch so many people w/ her beautiful voice and passion.

  • It touches my Soul, every time i listen. So thankful that it was posted.

  • Sing it Sister Jackson.

  • 40 I take delight in his sound eaten! It is not possible to replace him, there is not a sound like this since he went away. Sings for a god on his beautiful sound now:) Since a Hungarian grandma's, who 18 year ones are, age Mahalia fan:)

  • Thanks for the upload. Beautiful!

  • a beautiful soul

  • My Grandmother Lillie Mae Leslie from Atlanta Ga. sang just like her. She was a beautiful person and a beauitiful singer. She lived for 80 years and she sing for many people. This was her favorite song. We miss her so much. May she rest in peace. Gloversville New York.

  • i love this one but plzz check this video sang by bobby white - hallelujah ,,, great!!!

    leave a comment

    youtube.com/watch?v=GP00HSSL_A­o

  • Bravo!

  • The fondation.were it all started.god i luv being black

  • lovelyyyyyyyy.i remember my grama use to sing this at church.r i p .luv u Rose Brown

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  • I feel my grandmas arms around me rocking me to sleep.

  • @cocoacarly1 that is one of the sweetest things i've ever read. *sigh* there's something about her voice that makes me think of my grandparents, the products of a generation that i wish we were more like at times...

  • @cocoacarly1 That is beautifully said

  • @mstanley97 Thanks

  • she is so amazing she was my mothers god mom...i wish i could have met her

  • @savid69 My parents took me to see her perform several times when I was a little girl.here in New York. My parents enjoyed Gospel music in general but were wild about her and thought she was the greatest Gospel singer of all. We are Jewish so it was never about the message. Her voice just blew us away.

  • @TamarZucker Wow! you are so fortunate to have witness her talent in person.

    

  • @TamarZucker why wouldn't it be about the message? just replace jesus with god and it makes the same sense.

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  • funny church people can put other people down but oh dont you put them down, how double standard can you get, and how true it is that vanity runs amuck in these churches and some how god is feeling good about that i dont think so

  • she is a Angel up in heaven and when she was here on earth she sung like a angel and her voice was so beautiful!!!!!! great lady!!!!

  • She could have given Vestal Goodman a run for her money. Thanks for the video and God Bless!!

  • Wow!!! Loved every moment of it. Peace~

    

  • I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free! His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me!

    Mahaila sings it with such conviction, such passion....you know she was a true woman of virtue, just by her love of her Lord expressed in her songs. I once went a year with terrible pain and could not sleep, until I began listening to Mahalia when I went to bed at night....I sleep like a baby now.

  • This is a blessing... ♥

  • She is just totally amazing....JUST AMAZING, may her soul rest in peace!!!

  • We are to minister the word. Does it matter that Gospel is done wearing make up or done rapping. Christ should cross over all genres. I like Gospel and I like Gospel rap. Before Gospel got popular, people called it devil music- so read before judging and nothing about CHRIST is a joke!!!!!

  • What a Joy... thank you for sharing!

  • My mother raised my sister and I to sing Mahalia's songs...My sister was to sing eyes on the sorrow and I was to sing walk around heaven...My mother use to sing just like her ...she knew how to tell the story with her vocals...Thanks mommy 4 everything...R.I.P. Sandra Faye Thorogood...I'm still going strong singing the word of Christ. The greatest artists of all time Mahalia & my Mother

  • her voice is glorious and heavenly!

  • God, she's glorious. Thanks for posting.

  • i'll never forget how i first discovered this amazing woman. i was listening to yolanda adams a few years ago and i said "yolanda's the queen of gospel" and my aunt said "nahh that title belongs to mahalia jackson" and i was like "who is that?" my aunt quickly played one of her songs for me and i was speechless! 2 mins later i went on iTunes and bought one of her greatest hits albums. i still listen to it very frequently

  • When I was young, my Mother played piano and sang in the living room while my three sisters and I went to sleep in our rooms upstairs. She sang this song nearly every night .I grew up listening to Mahalia Jackson and it really is a wonderful thing that modern media can introduce her to people that otherwise may have never heard what must truly be one of the greatest voices of the last century.

  • @2leet2cheet yes it is wonderful. otherwise i wouldn't have been able to buy one of her albums through iTunes lol

  • amazing...

  • 1st time I heard this song was at the funeral of my sweet friend Patricia Walker in Baltimore. She was a murder victim. It was the only thing that made any sense at all that day.

  • This is my all time favorite song, and Im glad i got to hear her sing it

  • Just beautiful. And I'm a Muslim!

  • Thank you lord!

  • And we praise him!!!! Thank you Jesus:)

  • she was a great woman...

  • Oh my Lord.. This somg makes ne shed great big tears.

  • I love her voice, every Sunday I wake up and put her record on before church. It cracks and pops from all the times its been played but her voice rings through. I love hymns because of her, she brings out the meanings. Thank you for putting this up, I love watching her sing. Praise God for giving us such angels to sing His promises and love to us.

  • Fantasia was cast to play her in thr upcoming biopic about mahalia jackson life

  • Are you people serious. Do you even read wat ur posting? sounds like a mess of Vipers. Casting stones at people, Let Jesus be Glorified, and honestly i bet he enjoys hearing his praises on the lips of a sinner just as much. It means another sheep has come home. And you wonder why people are afrid of the church nowadays!!!!

  • Just beautiful!

  • amen to all the comments, the thing that made her gospel so wonderful to listen to is because you knew it was coming from her soul, not for the need of money or attention, it was from her soul. The singers today can not hold a candle to her ever.

  • A musical prayer of thanksgiving from the heart.

  • My cousin sang this song at my dad's funeral.

  • It is a shame that there have not been another singer to not take the place of Mahalia, but to keep on singing the praises of God so beautiful as she did. Just an organ and a piano playing behind her magnificant voice, which she really did not need.. Arthea Franklin is the closes female singer to Mahalia, todate.

  • Magnificent. True faith in the core of the faith.

  • the hairs on my neck go up when this sweet lady sings

  • I love this type of singing.... I felt sick and after listening to this video, I ACTUALLY FEEL BETTER! GLORY TO GOD!!!!

  • My grandma loved Mahalia Jackson. I listened to her voice and always felt good.

  • on a page where mahalia jackson is glorifying God, why are the two highest rated comments on this page judgemental, negative comments about other christian artists by people who cannot possibly know their heart or their motives? keep it positive people!!!

  • @chonwun816 - Maybe because there is reason to doubt? I've personally witnessed the behavior of "so-called" gospel artists and was appalled at the message they really were sending. The language they spoke I would have expected from some low life trash... but this individual was touted as one of the greatest gospel group members in recent years.

  • @philbunch1 This was not Phil Bunch posting BTW. I am his wife. Didn't realize I was signed in under his account.

  • @chozinwun816 thank you

  • I LOVE HER!....THE GREAT ..OF ALL TIMES

  • i love Mahalia jackson mental she is mentally and spirtually up lifting.When she sang u here from the heart no imitatation just her praisising the glory of god

  • I love this song!

  • Thank you Lord for all that you are to us Oh Holy One of Israel; we love you and we adore you. We are free at last and that is our song and our joy.

  • I love this , wow beautiful

  • When Mahalia sings the phrase "God made me free" she contorts her head and neck in the spirit. Go' head.

  • Love this!! She sounds like Billie Holiday when she sings certain words...and I love when she says lil ole sparrow! It's like she's holding a conversation with someone about how watchful God is. B-D Simply amazing

  • thats what you call a gospel song praise him

  • She sang from the heart, not to impress anyone!

  • Love Mahalia Jackson. Favorite Gospel Singer! Beautiful Woman. had the glory of the Lord shining all over her face!

  • THEY SANG OUT OF THEIR NEED NOT OUT OF THEIR GREED!

  • I truly believe that Ms. Jackson is one of the all time best gospel performers!!! Her voice is SO moving!

  • R.I.P. CHARLOTTE, MR. JONES, SWEET JACKIE, and GWEN!!!!I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET KNOWING YOU ALL!!!

  • @Maybeshebornwithitt:

    I agree! Unfortunately many of the so called gospel artists have one thing they are singing for and it has nothing to do with the love for God.

  • better than beyonce already lol

  • this beautiful woman makes me cry..... gives me hope... she is a beautiful light..... becon of hope and love.... messenger of God... .I'm grateful to hear her..thanks for sharing.

  • Wonderful

  • Mahalia Jackson a wonderful singer and a person who just wanted to spread the word of God to all. Mahalia would be proud to know how many lives she has touch. My mother is one. All fans of Mahalia type in Mahalia Jackson by Marie Guillian. Be Blessed.

  • this one is for me, thank you lord

  • To Maybeshesbornwithitt: Mahailia Jackson IS the name... back then and today!!!

  • sing it spirit from heavan

  • for my momm

  • Wow damn she ripped that song FIRE FIRE FIRE!!

  • I'm so glad that "HE watches over me". What a secure feeling to know even though His eye is on the sparrow, He still watches over me". Praise God!

  • tears running down my face

  • The best.

  • I love how she didn't need a name, not a whole lot of make-up, hairstyling, etc...

    A lot of these gospel artists today are joke.

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt dang, so true... i never even thought about it

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt you're right!!!

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt Amen to that. No lie. Amen..smh!!!

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt

    YOU are right about that! For instance, 6" eye lashes.... DARKEST Eye Shadow and HAIR the SIZE of a # 3 WASHTUB! This lady needed nothing...Her voice and dedication done it all!

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt Anybody giving praise to God, whether they are phony or not, praise for God never is!

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt If all you're paying attention to is the person and not the message of the song then you are the one in the wrong. No one who believes/follows in God is perfect including you but they are doing gods will by letting the world know about him that's there purpose. So try not to judge other people remember your savior talks about that.

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt i agree with you and that rap gospel a joke

  • @Maybeshesbornwithitt totally agree nerver since mj has there been someone who sings from her heart and soul she was truley blessed

  • Her voice is awesome & so powerful! I love this song so much! =)

  • Yes, Yes, Yes! Hear the voice of the Lord, The Lords angel on earth has proclaimed the truth through song! How can you hear this and the Holy Ghost does not grab you, if you are not filled with the Holy Ghost even now, it still does somthing to you! Ahh glory be to God AL- Shaddah! Saints the Lord will never change and he is comming live and direct, be ready and stand in his name! for it shall come to pass that the rocks will shout praises to our father if we wont. may God bless and keep you!

  • There can be no mistake the Holy Spirit will wash over you with this beautiful song. Kind of like having church in your own house. God's Blessings,

    Hope

  • @MzBriteEyez I'm scared...ghost, proclaimed, comming instead of coming, yes...yes...yessss...im really scared now!

  • Mother of gospel music.

  • She gave me chills i love this woman

  • I believe in the great 'Force',God, Creator of my life, and great is His art!

  • yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

  • RIP......

    we still love you.

  • without no bling bling she was so bright

    learn young cats ...........

  • Glorious. There is hope for me.

    Thank you from Canada!

  • @Sheamusj Yes, there is definately hope for you and for us all! Just please remember to deligently seek God's face everyday! For He is the source of our hope! Be Blessed! :)

  • And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;and then shall the end come.matthew:24:14. THANKS JESUS.

  • Beautiful lady and a beautiful voice .... you are in my heart forever xxxx

  • She was the best, and will always be the best.

  • Her voice just reaches in and touches your heart and soul. My goodness she had me in tears. I wonder what the experience was like to see her live...I have goosebumps just imagining it.

  • LOVE EACH OTHER.GOD BLESS WE. AMEN.

  • I love her hair

  • Bless technology--I am ableto see whtat my Grandma was talking about when she said that was the greatest singer.

  • It don't get anybetter, She is as genuine as they come!

  • suppa suppa.

    sie inspiriert uns alle..

    blubb blubb.

    ganz toll..

    lobet GOTT sie ist schwarz und singt..

  • Mahalia is the best female Gospel singer ever. What a blessing listening to this great woman sing. Praise God, what an inspiration.

  • Genius.

  • GOD BLESS WE ALL. AMEN.

  • We are never closer to God than when we listen to Mahalia Jackson. :)

  • i remember my great grandmother used to play her TAPES not cds lol

  • YES I REMEMBER CASSETTE TAPES...LOL

  • She's my insperation.

  • This is heaven on earth

    even satan have to respect this woman.

    brilliant thanks for sharing.

  • She can even bring a tear to this Jew's eyes. Check out Joshua Nelson

  • made me cry..

  • simply a blessing to my soul, awesome voice and a great anointing, Praise God she used her gift to glorify the Lord.

  • key of G on trumpet

  • God is REAL

  • A fool says in his heart that there is no God.

  • I like the similar, but not quite the same, popular recording she released of this better than this recording. But I don't know where to get the sheet music. I'm afraid that she just used a pianist and organist who ad libbed using chord symbols, so such a version may not exist. Anybody know where I can get it, send me a email. Even just the chords would be better than nothing. Thanks.

  • I don't know if you have found your sheet music for this song, but you will find it in any hymn book at most churches. Or find a gospel record shop and you will find it there.

  • I didn't mean just a hymnal version or any version, I meant the arrangement I described. i.e. the chord symbols of that arrangement, not just any version. I suspect that none exists, as she just worked it out with the accompanists and never published it.

  • ooph wow. thats something. i started to cry there at the end.

  • god made me free 2.58