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Musicians :
Donny Hathaway (piano & electric piano, organ, bass, keyboard bass, vocals), Willie Weeks, Louis Satterfield, Marshall Hawkins (bass), Master Henry Gibson (conga), King Curtis (guitar), Phil Upchurch (bass guitar, ... [Show more]
Description:
Musicians :
Donny Hathaway (piano & electric piano, organ, bass, keyboard bass, vocals), Willie Weeks, Louis Satterfield, Marshall Hawkins (bass), Master Henry Gibson (conga), King Curtis (guitar), Phil Upchurch (bass guitar, guitar), John Littlejohn (guitar, vocals), John Avant, Morris Ellis (trombone), Johnny Board, Lenard Druss (tenor saxophone), Oscar Brashear, John Howell, Robert A. Lewis (trumpet), Cyril Touff (bass trumpet), Clifford P. Davis, Don Myrick (alto saxophone), Aaron Dodd (tuba), Willie Henderson (baritone saxophone), John Lounsberry, Ethel Merker, Paul A. Teryett (French horn), The Vashonettes (backing vocals), Ric Powell (drums, percussion), Morris Jennings (drums).
- Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) !
- Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records !
- Grammy-nominated and critically-acclaimed soul and R&B album !
- Featuring "The Ghetto", and "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" !
- 180 gram 45 RPM double LP !
- Pressed at Quality Record Pressings !
- Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing !
Donny Hathaway's first studio album Everything is Everything is a significant work in the realm of soul and R&B music, released in 1970. It marked an important point in Hathaway's career and showcased his exceptional talent as a singer, songwriter, and pianist.
The album was Hathaway's first release after being signed to Atlantic in 1969. Hathaway had already built a reputation early in his life, first as a gospel singer as a child under the name Donny Pitts. Raised in St. Louis, with religious influences, his grandmother Martha Crumwell was herself an accomplished gospel singer and guitarist. After dropping out of Howard University in 1967, Hathaway moved to Chicago, his birthplace, and started working on music for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records label where he was a songwriter, producer, arranger, composer, conductor and session player.
Everything Is Everything was produced by Hathaway and Ric Powell, who plays drums and percussion on the album; Hathaway wrote or co-wrote five of the album's nine songs. Hathaway had met Powell while at Howard University, as well as the future Impressions lead singer, Leroy Hutson, who jointly wrote the hit song that would eventually make it on the album, "The Ghetto".
The track was mostly an instrumental, except for Hathaway's vocal ad-libs and his singing of the chorus. Hathaway and Hutson composed another socially conscious song for the album, titled "Tryin' Times". Other songs were split between covers Ray Charles's "I Believe to My Soul" and Nina Simone's "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", spiritual affairs "Thank You Master for My Soul" and love songs "Je Vous Aime (I Love You".
Released in July 1970, the album peaked at N° 73 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and N° 33 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart.
This timeless classic is now reissued in the definitive deluxe 180 gram 45 RPM 2 LP Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) format.
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