Everything Is Everything (Mono) Donny Hathaway

• 1 Voices Inside [Everything Is Everything] 03:30
• 2 Je Vous Aime [I Love You] 03:33
• 3 I Believe To My Soul 03:52
• 4 Misty 03:39
• 5 Sugar Lee 04:06
• 6 Tryin' Times 03:17
• 7 Thank You Master [For My Soul] 05:52
• 8 The Ghetto 06:55
• 9 To Be Young, Gifted And Black 06:50
• Total Runtime 41:34

Info for Everything Is Everything (Mono)

This Mono release comes from a ‘70s R&B legend who’s often remembered as much for the work he did with his recurring duet partner, Roberta Flack, as for the work he did on his own, but this particular album was all his.

Originally released on Atco on July 1, 1970, Everything is Everything was Donny Hathaway’s debut solo album, but it was hardly his first foray into music, having started his career as a gospel singer (under the name “Donny Pitts”) before moving to Chicago and eventually pulling a job for Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom Records, serving variously as an arranger, composer, conductor, producer, session player, and songwriter.

Everything is Everything may be best remembered for its hit single, “The Ghetto,” which Hathaway co-wrote with Leroy Hutson of the Impressions, along with “Tryin’ Times” and – with the assistance of Edward Kennedy – “Je Vous Aime (I Love You).” Other songs on the album include covers of Ray Charles’ “I Believe to My Soul,” Nina Simone’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” and “Misty,” written by Johnny Burke and Erroll Garner, along two other songs penned by Hathaway: “Sugar Lee,” which he co-wrote with Ric Powell, and “Thank You Master (For My Soul),” a solo composition.

Some have argued that Everything is Everything was, in fact, the best solo album Hathaway ever released, but now you can make that decision for yourself.

Donny Hathaway, vocals, piano, electric piano, bass, organ, Fender piano bass
Philip Upchurch, guitar, bass
King Curtis, guitar
Clifford Davis, alto saxophone
Donald Myrick, alto saxophone
Johnny Board, tenor saxophone
Lenard S. Druss, tenor saxophone
Willie Henderson, baritone saxophone
Oscar Brashear, trumpet
John E. Howell, trumpet
Robert A. Lewis, trumpet
Gary Slavo, trumpet
Cyril Touff, bass trumpet
John Lounsberry, French horn
Ethel Merkerl, French horn
Paul A. Teryett, French horn
John Avant, trombone
Morris Ellis, trombone
Aaron Dodd, tuba
Louis Satterfield, bass
Marshall Hawkins, bass
Morris Jennings, drums
Ric Powell, percussion, drums
Henry Gibson, conga
Vashonettes, background vocals

Recorded at Mayfair Studio and Audio Finishers, New York, New York between May 9, 1969 and April 16, 1970

Digitally remastered

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