Gospel

"Wildly exhilarating!...An Aural high! Begins at an almost impossibly high energy level. The Mighty Clouds of Joy take the stage and soon drive the audience into an absolute frenzy. And this is only the beginning."
-Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Unrestrained, joyous music!"
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"Two thumbs up!"
-Siskel & Ebert

"A total and explosive success!"
-Archer Winston, N.Y. Post

"Jubilant and spectacular!"
-Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

"ECSTATIC! A resoundingly successful marriage of music and film!"
-Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times

"A superior concert film. The best live musical film since Martin Scorsese’s "The Last Waltz".
-Variety

"SUPER-CHARGED! It comes at you with the force of an amplified hurricane...energy enough to blow the top off the theatre."
-John Stark, San Francisco Examiner

"Raw Explosiveness...dazzles the audience!"
-Doris Worsham, Oakland Tribune

- Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune

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- Leonard Maltin

Never before has a film so enthusiastically captured the mood and spirit of this unique American art form. Five of the legends of Gospel music live in a concert extravaganza at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA.

The celebrated theatrical motion picture featuring Live performances by:

Rev. James Cleveland

Waiting on you
I don’t feel noways tired
Can’t nobody do me like Jesus
Determined to make heaven my home

Shirley Caesar

He’s got it all in control
No charge
(This Joy) The world didn’t give it to me

Walter Hawkins and the Family

Until I found the lord(sung by Walter Hawkins)
Right on (sung by Lynette Hawkins Stephens)
Goin’ to a place(sung by Edwin Hawkins)
He brought me (sung by Tramaine Hawkins)

The Mighty Clouds of Joy

Mighty high
Walk around heaven
I came to Jesus

Audience with Walter Hawkins

What a friend we have in Jesus

The Clark Sisters

Name it and claim it
Is my living in vain
Hallelujah

Special DVD Exclusives:

Artist Profiles
Song Access
Scrapbook
Venue Highlights

Seen on PBS.

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