's debut album on the Columbia
label, recorded in 1954.
Original record sleeve
, written by George Avakian
: "The recordings in this collection were made in the course of two consecutive evenings at Columbia's 30th Street Studio
in New York
. For Mahalia's debut on the Columbia
Label, Mitch Miller
had asked her to prepare some new songs for single record release, and I had hoped to get a start toward making an album of spirituals and gospels songs of her own choice.
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion." -- Lord Byron
"The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor". -- 17th Century account
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash." -- Attributed to, and denied by, Winston Churchill
"Where I go, I hope there's rum" - Jimmy Buffett
"But why's the rum gone?" - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
"Hide the rum." - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
"I prefer rum. Rum is good." - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End