I Might as Well

post a couple of YouTubes of gospel great Mahalia Jackson, perhaps the best singer in popular music history, bar none:



That one was live in Chicago in 1963. The video is rather poor, but Jackson is in terrific form here.

Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. Must have been at night:





Here with Nat King Cole:


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