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Portrait of Mahalia Jackson (Podcast #17-006)
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“Bill Putnam, founder, builder, recording engineer, and President of Universal Recording Studios in Chicago, was having a party on a yacht one evening out on Lake Michigan. There were a lot of bigwigs from the Loop there, and a representative of Columbia Records came up to me, all glowing.
“Say you must hear this new girl we’ve got signed up!” he said.
“Who’s that?”
“Mahalia Jackson.”
“Oh, yeah, she’s a good cook.”…
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