In My Home over There

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Mahalia Jackson spent almost half a century singing gospel songs and spirituals, her unmistakable timbre and phrasing influenced by blues greats Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Jackson was gospel's first crossover superstar, and though she's been dead since 1972, her rich, smoky contralto has not been surpassed. Since her passing, Jackson's recordings have been reissued and/or compiled into collections many times over. In My Home Over There includes alternate versions of songs (e.g., "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," "In the Upper Room") reissued elsewhere, yet here they sound more full vocally and instrumentally. "In the Upper Room," for example, employs not only piano but organ and backing choir as well, made all the more resonant by the crackle of old vinyl and tape hiss. The title track is worth the entire disc, so great is the depth it conveys. --Paige La Grone

In My Home over There, Music, Mahalia Jackson, Black Gospel, Gospel, Gospel/Christian Music, Pop, Spirituals, Traditional Gospel
100 Favorite Patriotic Songs
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • not to great
  • Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$
  • You get what you pay for.
  • Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ...
 100 Favorite Patriotic Songs

Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music
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ASIN: B0000A1HT8
Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

  1. America the Beautiful
  2. All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
  3. Ballad of the Green Berets
  4. On Top of Old Smokey
  5. Coyote Warrior
  6. Semper Fidelis
  7. Breeze from Alabama
  8. Onward Christian Soldiers
  9. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  10. Patriot
  11. Sweet Betsy from Pike
  12. Marines' Hymn
  13. America Is
  14. When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
  15. Happy the Soldier
  16. American Trilogy
  17. Home Sweet Home
  18. Washington Post March
  19. Enraptured I Gaze
  20. Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
  21. Yellow Rose of Texas
  22. Over There
  23. Simple Gifts
  24. Liberty Bell
  25. Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

  1. God Bless the USA
  2. Yankee Doodle Dandy
  3. Katy Cruel
  4. I Vow to Thee My Country
  5. King Cotton
  6. Beautiful Dreamer
  7. America
  8. American Patrol
  9. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
  10. Mohican Dream
  11. Red, White and Blue
  12. Some Folks
  13. Liberty Song
  14. Pomp and Circumstance
  15. Hail to the Chief
  16. Bennington Rifles
  17. Peace on the Battlefield
  18. I've Been Working on the Railroad
  19. Under the Double Eagle
  20. Red River Valley
  21. My Country 'Tis of Thee
  22. Camptown Races
  23. Wild Blue Yonder
  24. Hands Across the Sea
  25. Fanfare for the Common Man

Tracks:

  1. Stars and Stripes Forever
  2. Living in America
  3. Home on the Range
  4. Old Colony Times
  5. Clementine
  6. Invincible Eagle
  7. Ring Ring de Banjo
  8. Yankee Doodle
  9. Largo from "The New World"
  10. To a Wild Rose
  11. Hail Columbia
  12. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  13. Gettysburg
  14. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  15. Capitan
  16. Prairie Daughter
  17. Little Brown Jug
  18. Marching Through Georgia
  19. Entertainer
  20. Steamboat Around the Bend
  21. Revolutionary Tea
  22. Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
  23. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
  24. Amazing Grace
  25. Grand Old Flag

Tracks:

  1. God Bless America
  2. National Emblem
  3. Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
  4. Anchors Away
  5. Oh, Susannah
  6. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
  7. Toast
  8. Dixie
  9. St. Louis Blues
  10. Appalachian Spring
  11. Bonnie Blue Flag
  12. Old Hundreth
  13. Swanee River
  14. Battle Cry of Freedom
  15. U. S Field Artillery
  16. Sidewalks of New York
  17. Chester
  18. Auld Lang Syne
  19. Kingdom Come
  20. My Old Kentucky Home
  21. Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
  22. Battle Hymn of the Republic
  23. Shenandoah
  24. Abraham's Daughter
  25. This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

3 out of 5 stars Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

1 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

1 out of 5 stars Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.
Spirituals in Concert
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • "Lord, How Come Me Here"
  • WOW!
  • uhm......yeah right!!
  • scadalise my name
  • Broadway takes on the spiritual ...
 Spirituals in Concert

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ASIN: B000001GDC
Release Date: 1991-03-08

Tracks:

  1. In That Great Getting Up Morning
  2. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
  3. Over My Head/ Lil' David
  4. Oh, What A Beautiful City
  5. Lord, How Come Me Here
  6. I Believe I'll Go Back Home-Lordy, Won't You Help Me
  7. Ride On, King Jesus
  8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot-Ride Up In The Chariot
  9. You Can Tell The World
  10. Scandalize My Name
  11. Great Day
  12. Oh, Glory
  13. Calvary-They Crucified My Lord
  14. Talk About A Child
  15. Gospel Train
  16. My God Is So High
  17. There Is A Balm In Gilead
  18. He's Got The Whole World In His Hand

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars "Lord, How Come Me Here".......2007-06-18

I must add, to the praises above, that Kathleen Battle's "Lord, How Come Me Here" is the best "quick" explanation of the long-lasting effects of slavery that I can think of. The line, "They sold my children away," says it all.

And the VERY funny "Scandelize My Name" is also worth the price of the total album!

Alinde O'Malley

5 out of 5 stars WOW!.......2007-03-22

You know, after owning both the CD and VHS of this performance, and having been coached by Sylvia Olden Lee herself, it is no wonder why spiritual mean so much to me. And these two ladies bare their souls and bring these masterpieces to life! WOW!!!

5 out of 5 stars uhm......yeah right!!.......2006-06-21

Clearly you are mistaken. I don't know who that guy is-the person below recommended-but there is NO COMPARISON to JESSYE NORMAN AND KATHLEEN BATTLE!!!! Jessye Norman herself has *30* HONARY DOCTRATES from places like Harvard, Juliard, Yale, Cambridge....I mean HELLO!!!! That guy had no where near the ease, the musicality or even the breath support as these two veterans show!! It is a beautiful CD though it came out in 1991 and I HIGHLY recommend it.

1 out of 5 stars scadalise my name.......2004-10-29

this isn't that good specially after hearing William Warfeild sing it. You can find him at www.wlym.com

2 out of 5 stars Broadway takes on the spiritual ..........2004-01-29

... takes it on and puts it on the canvas by the end of the first round.

I'm going to be the dissenting voice here: thank goodness I signed this disk out of the public library 'cause I'm sure not going to listen to it twice.

There is nothing wrong with the performances. Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle sing beautifully, and there's no problem with the pick-up orchestra under James Levine.

The problem, and it's huge, is the conception of the show and the musical arrangements. To make the video marketable, I suppose, the producers decided that the concert had to be big: big names, big arrangements, big effects. So we have eighteen spirituals given the musical theatre treatment, with a philharmonic chorus providing chain-gang sound effects, big brass, and big percussion -- including a chinese gong. A chinese gong in a spiritual??? Spare me! Almost every track turns out sounding like either a curtain-raiser or a big, end-of-act production number with cute and predictable modulations between some of the stanzas and the sort of curly-cue orchestral ornamentation typical of Broadway shows.

And you know what? It all kills the spirituals stone dead. The spiritual is one of those musical forms where less is more and very little is best of all. That's how they started, after all. That's how and why they worked for their original audiences, and that's why they were powerful enough to make the transition from folk song to art song. If you want to hear Battle sing spirituals that are irresistible, listen to the set on her Salzburg recital CD, also with Levine (ASIN B00000E31B). There, the music speaks for itself and speaks with a strength and a beauty that the tracks on this disk never approach.
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 3
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    		The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 3

    Manufacturer: Albany Records
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    ASIN: B0000049MM
    Release Date: 1995-02-16

    Tracks:

    1. He Is There!
    2. Weil' auf mir
    3. The Cage
    4. My Native Land
    5. The Childrens' Hour
    6. Old Home Day
    7. Soliloquy
    8. Illmenau
    9. The See
    10. Autumn
    11. Pictures
    12. Walt Whitman
    13. Mists
    14. Walking
    15. A Farewell To Land
    16. Luck And Work
    17. Camp Meeting
    18. Charlie Rutlage
    19. His Exaltation
    20. Watchman!
    21. Vote For Names
    22. From 'Lincoln The Great Commoner'
    23. Lick A Sick Eagle
    24. From 'The Swimmers'
    25. At The River
    26. Requiem
    27. Afterglow
    28. General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
    29. To Edith
    30. Religion
    31. The New River
    32. Down East
    33. The Things Our Fathers Loved
    34. In Flanders Fields
    35. Tom Sails Away
    36. They Are There
    Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English]
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • A touching English Butterfly
    		 Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English]
    Giacomo Puccini , Yves Abel , Cheryl Barker , Paul Charles Clarke , and Simon Birchall
    Manufacturer: Chandos
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    ASIN: B00005QF3K
    Release Date: 2001-11-20

    Tracks:

    1. Act I: Introduction - Cheryl Barker
    2. Act I: 'So The Walls And The Ceiling...' - Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale
    3. Act I: 'I Think Your Honour's Smiling' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale
    4. Act I: 'It Can't Be Much Further Now!' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor
    5. Act I: The Whole World Over - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
    6. Act I: 'Fate Can't Crush Him' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
    7. Act I: 'Is The Bride Very Pretty?' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor
    8. Act I: 'True Love Or Fancy' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
    9. Act I: 'See Them! They're Climbing The Summit Of The Hill!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
    10. Act I: 'We Are Honoured' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale
    11. Act I: 'The Imperial Commissioner' - Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Simon Birchall
    12. Act I: 'Oh, Indeed, My Friend, You're Lucky!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
    13. Act I: 'Come, My Beloved' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Stuart Kale
    14. Act I: 'My Fate I Have To Follow' - Cheryl Barker
    15. Act I: 'Silence! Silence!' - Stuart Kale/Roland Wood/Cheryl Barker
    16. Act I: 'Congratulations' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Frances Brett/Clive Bayley/Stuart Kale
    17. Act I: 'Dearest, My Dearest, Weep No More' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
    18. Act I: 'Evening Is Falling...' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
    19. Act I: 'Child, From Whose Eyes The Witchery Is Shining' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker
    20. Act I: 'Ah, Love Me A Little' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor
    21. Act II Part I: 'Izaghi Izanami' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    22. Act II Part I: 'One Fine Day' - Cheryl Barker

    Tracks:

    1. Act II Part I: 'Come, Let's Enter' - Stuart Kale/Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
    2. Act II Part I: 'Yamadori, And Has your Unrequited Love Not Yet Released You? - Cheryl Barker/D'Arcy Bleiker/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale
    3. Act II Part I: 'Now, At Last!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
    4. Act II Part I: 'Just Two Things I Could Do' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
    5. Act II Part I: 'This Child! This Child, Then!' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
    6. Act II Part I: 'Do You Know, My Darling' - Cheryl Barker
    7. Act II Part I: 'I Must Be Going' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
    8. Act II Part I: 'Ah! Ah!' - Stuart Kale/Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    9. Act II Part I: 'Look, It's A Man-of-war!' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    10. Act II Part I: Flower Duet: 'Shake The Cherry Tree' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
    11. Act II Part I: Humming Chorus - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
    12. Act II Part 2: Prelude - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    13. Act II Part 2: Daybreak Over Nagasaki - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    14. Act II Part 2: 'It's Morning' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    15. Act II Part 2: 'Who Is It?...' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
    16. Act II Part 2: 'I Know For Such Misfortune There Is No Consolation' - Gregory Yurisich/Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor
    17. Act II Part 2: 'Farewell, Oh Happy Home!' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
    18. Act II Part 2: 'Then Will You Tell Her?' - Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
    19. Act II Part 2: 'Suzuki, Where Are You?' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
    20. Act II Part 2: 'You, Suzuki, You're Always So Faithful' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
    21. Act II Part 2: 'Viper! I Want You To Answer' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby/Gregory Yurisich/Ann Taylor
    22. Act II Part 2: 'Your Little Fluttering Heart Is Beating' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
    23. Act II Part 2: 'Death With Honour Is Better Than Life With Dishonour' - Cheryl Barker

    Amazon.com

    This performance, the only one available in English, is problematic. Best is Yves Abel's leadership of the orchestra, which sounds wonderful, imbuing Puccini's lush score with just the right exoticism and emphasis. But aside from Gregory Yurisch's fine Sharpless, the singers don't please. Paul Charles Clarke as Pinkerton is lacking stylistically and vocally, and as Butterfly, Cheryl Barker sounds under strain and never pretty. While she has the power and feeling for the big second-act climax (the sighting of the ship), she never for a moment sounds fragile or girlish, not even in the all-important early scenes. English or not, this set isn't in the running. Stick with Callas or Scotto in Italian, and follow the libretto. --Robert Levine

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars A touching English Butterfly.......2002-03-27

    Anyone familiar with Cheryl Barker's Butterfly will be interested in hearing this recording. I have heard her in the role twice - in Auckland and London - and her voice has filled out as the years have gone on. She hasn't a large italianate soprano; the sound is too slender somehow. Yet there is the paradox - it has great carrying power and a decent cutting edge to make itself heard above the orchestral climaxes. What really impresses is the sense of vulnerability and moral strength she imparts, making sense of the big moments of the secong act. The sound in Act one is gorgeous (and a super D flat in theentrance aria) and she differentiates impressively between the child-bride and the embittered woman of the two acts.

    She is surrounded by a mixed supporting cast. Jean Rigby is maternal, warm and affecting as Suzuki. Gregory Yurisich makes Sharpless' dilemma more understandable than usual, rather than being completely ineffectual. Paul Charles Clarke perhaps illustrates Pinkerton's arrogance with a degree of vocal swagger, but the sound is rough-hewn and unlovely save for some moments in the love duet. Stuart Kale's Goro is suitable ingratiating and oily.

    Abel's conducting is the other chief draw of this set. That he has experience of the score in the theatre means that his pacing is really superb, and the lush orchestration is given its due, the potent intermezzo during the overnight vigil sounding suitably ominous.

    This won't replace the classic Butterfly recordings, but in the absendce of any new ones recently, and for acceptable diction in an English version, it is certainly worth the (not very high) price. Recommended.
    A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • The style is the man--and the song
    		 A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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    ASIN: B000054BF6
    Release Date: 2001-04-17

    Tracks:

    1. This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
    2. This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View
    3. This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe
    4. This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love
    5. This Year Of Grace: Lorelei
    6. A Dream Of Youth (The Dream Is Over)
    7. Bitter Sweet: Zigeuner
    8. This Year Of Grace: World Weary
    9. Private Lives, Act 1, Love Scene: Someday I'll Find You
    10. Private Lives, Act 2, Scene: I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The World
    11. Half-Caste Woman
    12. Any Little Fish
    13. Cavalcade: Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Valse)
    14. Cavalcade Vocal Medley: Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To...
    15. Cavalcade, Epilogue: Toast To England
    16. Noel Coward Medley: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance Little Lady...

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02

    Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

    Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

    The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.
    In My Home over There
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Great Music; Questionable "Remastering"
    • My Oppinion
    • Still Going Strong
    • Uplifting Music
    		 In My Home over There
    Mahalia Jackson
    Manufacturer: Mca
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
    GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | R&B | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00000DD2I
    Release Date: 1998-10-20

    Tracks:

    1. In The Upper Room, Pt.1
    2. His Eye Is On The Sparrow
    3. Walking To Jerusalem
    4. Dig A Little Deeper
    5. Get Away Jordan
    6. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
    7. There's Not A Friend Like Jesus
    8. Do You Know Him
    9. In My Home Over There
    10. Amazing Grace
    11. Nobody Knows
    12. Run All The Way

    Amazon.com essential recording

    Mahalia Jackson spent almost half a century singing gospel songs and spirituals, her unmistakable timbre and phrasing influenced by blues greats Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Jackson was gospel's first crossover superstar, and though she's been dead since 1972, her rich, smoky contralto has not been surpassed. Since her passing, Jackson's recordings have been reissued and/or compiled into collections many times over. In My Home Over There includes alternate versions of songs (e.g., "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," "In the Upper Room") reissued elsewhere, yet here they sound more full vocally and instrumentally. "In the Upper Room," for example, employs not only piano but organ and backing choir as well, made all the more resonant by the crackle of old vinyl and tape hiss. The title track is worth the entire disc, so great is the depth it conveys. --Paige La Grone

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Great Music; Questionable "Remastering".......2004-03-13

    Let me begin by singing the praises of the late, great Mahalia Jackson: she was, and still is conciderd by many serious music scholars, to be the Queen of Gospel. Her range in tonality and style is engratiating to the ear. This cd showcases some relatively early recordings of Jackson, and apparantly was taken straight from a record player. Now, I happen to like the antique sound of extra phonograph noise... in moderation. Unfortunately, this cd cuts it pretty close, in my estimation. This, I can easily forgive; however, I find the chopping off of half of the first song, "In the Upper Room" a most aggregious and un-called for offense. What's more, the volume of the cd is overly conservative. I don't mean to complain and nit-pick, folks, but Mahalia always sang with PASSION! One can FEAL her words-- especialy if one shares her strong faith in Christ. No matter what the background of the listener, though, the listener can hear the struggle and yearning and determination in the soul of this master of gospel song. For me, this particular cd-- with a great song list-- does not capture the tangible effects of this great artist's music. I HIGHLY recomend the album, The Best of Mahalia Jackson. It's sound is clear; it has a good variety of styles, and it's powerful.

    5 out of 5 stars My Oppinion.......2000-06-26

    I think it was real good and I enjoyed it throughly

    5 out of 5 stars Still Going Strong.......2000-06-24

    Mahalia Jackson may be dead but her soothing vocals are not. This album is smooth and 100% Mahalia. If you lay back and close your eyes, you can almost see the Heaven that's she's singing about. A must have for the true Gospel lover.

    5 out of 5 stars Uplifting Music.......2000-06-22

    Mahalia Jackson has done it again. For some refreshing christian gospel, I suggest you pick this one. It will take you up to heaven.
    Klassic Country 1965-1969 (2-cd Set)
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Klassic Country 1965-1969 (2-cd Set)
      Various Artists Walk Through This World With Me - George Jones (S)/Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter (S)/Flowers On The Wall - Statler Brothers (S)/King Of The Road - Roger Miller (S)/Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard , Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers & First Edition (S)/Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash (S)/Crying In The Chapel - Elvis Presley (S)/Make The World Go Away - Eddy Arnold (S)/Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line - Waylon Jennings , Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn (S)/Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley (S)/Skip A Rope - Henson Cargill (S)/Mama Tired - Merle Haggard (S)/Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (S)//Stand By Your Man -Tammy Wynette , Almost Persuaded - David Houston (S)/Cryin' Time - Buck Owens (S)/Take Good Care Of Her - Sonny James (S)/I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins (S)/Is It Really Over - Jim Reeves (S)/There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene , Next In Line - Conway Twitty (S)/Just Someone I Used To Know - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton (S)/Green Green Grass Of Home - Porter Wagoner (S)/Blue Side Of Lonesome - Jim Reeves , and Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (S)/All I Have To Offer You (Is Me) - Charley Pride (S)/Galveston - Glen Campbell (S)/Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
      Manufacturer: BMG Special Products TCD-808
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000NPKHEG

      Product Description

      R808-02 (BMG Special Products TCD-808) - Classic Country 1965-1969 - Various Artists [1998] (2-CD set) Walk Through This World With Me - George Jones (S)/Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter (S)/Flowers On The Wall - Statler Brothers (S)/King Of The Road - Roger Miller (S)/Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard (S)/Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers & First Edition (S)/Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash (S)/Crying In The Chapel - Elvis Presley (S)/Make The World Go Away - Eddy Arnold (S)/Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line - Waylon Jennings (S)/Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn (S)/Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley (S)/Skip A Rope - Henson Cargill (S)/Mama Tired - Merle Haggard (S)/Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (S)//Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette (S)/Almost Persuaded - David Houston (S)/Cryin' Time - Buck Owens (S)/Take Good Care Of Her - Sonny James (S)/I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins (S)/Is It Really Over - Jim Reeves (S)/There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene (S)/Next In Line - Conway Twitty (S)/Just Someone I Used To Know - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton (S)/Green Green Grass Of Home - Porter Wagoner (S)/Blue Side Of Lonesome - Jim Reeves (S, with string overdubs)/Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (S)/All I Have To Offer You (Is Me) - Charley Pride (S)/Galveston - Glen Campbell (S)/Honey - Bobby Goldsboro (S)

      Music:

      1. Is My Living in Vain?
      2. Jars of Clay
      3. Jesus Freak
      4. Life Is a Church
      5. Lifeline
      6. Live in London and More... [Live]
      7. Mark Schultz Live: A Night of Stories and Songs [Live]
      8. Miracles
      9. MMHMM [Enhanced]
      10. Mountain High...Valley Low

      Music

      Music