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| Studio album by Donny Hathaway | |||||
| Released | July 1, 1970 | ||||
| Recorded | September 11, 1969 - April 16, 1970 | ||||
| Genre | Soul | ||||
| Label | Atco | ||||
| Producer | Donny Hathaway Ric Powell |
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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 crooner as a child under the name Donny Pitts. 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. Howard University is a private, Coeducational Nonsectarian University located in Washington D Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Curtis Lee Mayfield ( June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, R&B, and Funk After befriending Impressions lead singer Leroy Hutson, the duo composed the song that would eventually make it on his debut album titled "The Ghetto", which was mostly an instrumental except for Hathaway's vocal ad-libs and him singing the chorus. The Impressions are an American Music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958 Leroy Hutson is an American soul and R&B Singer, Songwriter, Arranger, producer and Instrumentalist "The Ghetto" is a socially conscious mostly instrumental Funk / soul anthem released as the first single off American soul singer Donny
Hathaway and Hutson composed another socially conscious song titled "Trying Times". Other songs were split between covers (Ray Charles' "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)"). Ray Charles Robinson ( September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) known by his Stage name Ray Charles, was an American Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her Stage name Nina Simone ( IPA: ninɐ sʌmɞnɑ (February 21 1933 – April 21 2003 was a fifteen-time " To Be Young Gifted and Black " is a song by Nina Simone with Lyrics by Weldon Irvine.
Released in July 1970, the album peaked at #73 on the Billboard pop albums chart and #33 on the Billboard R&B albums chart. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop Albums based on sales compiled by
Critics have since called Hathaway's debut his finest album. It would be one of only three studio albums Hathaway released in his lifetime.
Track listing
- "Voices Inside (Everything is Everything)" (Evans/Powell/Upchurch) (3:28)
- "Je Vous Aime (I Love You)" (Hathaway/Hutson/Kennedy) (3:31)
- "I Believe to My Soul" (Charles) (3:51)
- "Misty" (Burke/Garner) (3:38)
- "Sugar Lee" (Hathaway/Powell) (4:05)
- "Tryin' Times" (Hathaway/Hutson) (3:15)
- "Thank You Master (For My Soul)" (Hathaway) (5:50)
- "The Ghetto" (Hathaway/Hutson) (6:50)
- "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (Irvine/Simone) (6:43)
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