David Forman (2026 Remaster) David Forman

• 1 Dream Of A Child (Remastered) 04:09
• 2 Treachery (Remastered) 02:47
• 3 If It Take All Night (Remastered) 04:20
• 4 Smokey China Tea (Remastered) 04:13
• 5 Endless Waters (Remastered) 05:24
• 6 Rosalie (Remastered) 02:30
• 7 One Fine Day (Remastered) 03:07
• 8 When The Comet Comes (Remastered) 03:45
• 9 Winnsboro, Louisiana (Remastered) 04:13
• 10 Seven Sisters (Remastered) 04:20
• 11 Marriage Of Napolean (Remastered) 05:06
• Total Runtime 43:54

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In 1976, Rolling Stone declared David Forman a songwriter on the same level as Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, and Tom Waits, comparing his vocals to Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson. His self-titled debut album for Arista Records, produced by Joel Dorn, was hailed as “an artistic success” before Forman seemingly vanished from the music world.

David Forman is a pure product of East New York, and Forest Hills, Queens. You can hear it in everything he sings. As music critic Stephen Holden would write of him: “From early childhood, David excelled in the pavement games that were the center of East New York’s polyglot kid culture, while the Orthodox Jewish schooling he received until the sixth grade would eventually manifest its influence in mythically inspired song lyrics.”

Forman’s music tastes ran from doo-wop and the Brill Building tunesmiths, to R&B groups like the Ronettes, the Crystals, the Shangri-Las, the Drifters, and the Coasters. At age 14, he sang lead in a group called the Opals that performed doo-wop ballads, which formed Forman’s essential musical character. At Forest Hills High School, in Queens, Forman met David Levine, a poet who was to become Forman’s years-long songwriting collaborator. “He’s the guy who made me think all of this was possible,” says Forman. “He was the class poet in high school.”

"If you’ve been following the collection of music writers on Substack, you may have recently come across the name David Forman. He made one critically acclaimed self-titled album for Arista Records in 1976. I was part of a coterie of New York journalists who were passionate about David Forman, the person and the album, so much that we became advocates. He spoke our insider pop culture New York patois. This feature about Forman and his record and interesting background was one of my first reported features for Newsday, for which I was already writing full-time after a stint as the editor of Creem in 1975; I joined the staff on Jan. 3, 1977.

Meanwhile, Forman fell out of sight, and made a good living doing advertising jingles. The year 1977 was a huge year for the record industry, but not for Forman. Despite what he told me later in this story you are about to read, Clive Davis did not have the patience for Forman’s audience to “gravitate to him,” and declined to release the second album. Those who read the Substack RECORD LUNG know the story of how Joe Hagan, Tim Davis, and Joel Smith, found Forman living near their Hudson Valley, NY, headquarters, heard his never-before released second album, and helped arrange for the release of Forman’s Who You Been Talking To, for the first time, on High Moon Records.

Profound ambitions may have been commonplace in pop songwriting a decade ago, when Bob Dylan, Lennon and Smokey Robinson were composing phrases that could rally a generation nearly every other week. But this is the year of our apathy: 1976, pop music’s division, where the message is: Safety sells.

But David Forman is a songwriter and singer who stalks danger in every verse. His debut album, “David Forman,” being released this week on Arista Records, is a mature album that touches emotional live wires and tickles at raw nerves. He sings in a wide-ranged tenor that often peaks in a winding falsetto. His songs are part New Orleans rhythm and blues aggressive, Smokey Robinson smooth, Randy Newman ironic, Leonard Cohen depressive, and Carole King commercial." (Wayne Robins)



"Not just a brilliant lyricist…one of the most interesting writers of the Seventies." (Rolling Stone)

David Forman

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Please Note: we do not offer the 192kHz version of this album, because our analysis clearly showed, that the 192kHz does not reach a frequency spectrum, that would justify to offer 192kHz. Hence we offer the 96kHz version.

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