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Donny Hathaway
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  • Personnel includes: Donny Hathaway (vocals, keyboards); Cornell Dupree (guitar); King Curtis (tenor saxophone); Joe Newman (trumpet); Chuck Rainey, Steve Novosel, Phil Upchurch (bass); Al Jackson Jr., Morris Jennings (drums); J.R. Bailey, Ronald Bright, Judy Clay, Sylvia Shemwell, Myrna Smith, Deidre Tuck, Sammy Turner, Myrna Summers, I. Stone, L. Tynes, S. White, The Interdenominational Singers, Cissy Houston (background vocals).
  • Producers: Donny Hathaway, Don-Ric Enterprises, Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin.
  • Engineers: Murray Allen, Gene Paul, James Douglass, Ron Albert, Howie Albert.
  • Recorded at Universal Studios, Chicago, Illinois; Atlantic Recording Studios, New York; Atlantic South-Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida. Originally released on Atco (33-360). Includes liner notes by Jerry Wexler and A. Scott Galloway.
  • With just one exception, Donny Hathaway's second full-length is a covers album, featuring one of the most pop-averse artists in soul music surprisingly offering interpretations of contemporary hit material like "A Song for You," "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," "Magnificent Sanctuary Band," and (most effectively) "Put Your Hand in the Hand," a laidback yet rolling, gospel-choir version of the song he was born to sing. In striking contrast to his debut, Donny Hathaway is a very dark record, and it opens on a particularly low note, with "Giving Up" (a 1964 R&B hit for Gladys Knight & the Pips). Most of Hathaway's performances are slow, piano-led laments, powerfully delivered but with little melodic sway to convert listeners. It's no coincedence then, that the only up-tempo song, "Magnificent Sanctuary Band," is the standout. "Little Girl" is a nice piece of gospel testifying with great male harmonizing on the chorus, and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" is a solid rendering of a song usually drenched in pathos. Still, whereas Everything Is Everything saw him leading the choir up in the front of church, Donny Hathaway sounds like the lament of a man alone in the sanctuary after services are finished. ~ John Bush
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (6/10/71, p.44) - "...ultimately stunning...a very special album...one of the best records so far this year..."
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