Richie Havens: Dreaming As One: The A&M Years auf CD
Dreaming As One: The A&M Years
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- Label:
- Floating World
- Aufnahmejahr ca.:
- 1976-1977
- Artikelnummer:
- 12872815
- UPC/EAN:
- 0805772649521
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 16.10.2026
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Born in Brooklyn in January of 1941, Richie Havens grew up in the rough-and-tumble Bedford-Stuyvesant community, and as the eldest of nine children, he was used to working a crowd from his earliest days. His father played piano with a number of bands throughout the city, which may account for Richie's innate talent. New York City was the nexus of the doo-wop movement, and Richie organized a number of street-corner singing groups in the Fifties. As the Fifties closed, though, the performer set his sights on the bohemian lure of Greenwich Village. Starting in the local clubs as a poetry performer, he also absorbed music from some of the greats who passed through that scene, including Nina Simone and Fred Neil. Emboldened by the opportunities for a distinctive voice in that environment, he began to accompany himself on guitar.
It wasn't long before he was given a record contract, but even though he made a couple of albums with the Douglas label, neither was released until later in his career, when his celebrity was already firmly established. At this juncture, Albert Grossman, the legendary manager and founder of Bearsville Records came into Richie's life and a second record deal ensued, this time with Verve's Forecast imprint. Forecast was primarily a folk label, as opposed to the jazz and comedy releases for which its parent was more widely known. The first three discs Havens recorded under this contract may be experienced in their entirety, newly remastered and with notes from Scott Schinder, on High Flyin' Bird: The Verve Forecast Years on Hip-O Select. Havens' first three albums for the Verve-Forecast label established him as a major artist, and his history-making appearance opening the 1969 Woodstock Festival helped to make him a household name. By 1970, Havens had achieved sufficient success to launch his own Stormy Forest label, distributed by Verve's parent company, MGM. Havens released seven albums on Stormy Forest, until MGM's sale to PolyGram led to a buyout of Havens' label deal. Havens then signed to A&M, whose co-founder Jerry Moss had long expressed interest in working with him.
The changes that had occurred in the popular-music landscape in the decade since Havens began recording were reflected in the two albums Havens made for A&M, 1976's The End Of The Beginning and 1977's Mirage. Where Havens' prior albums had been built around the spare rhythmic spontaneity of his voice and guitar, his A&M releases recast Havens in a more explicitly contemporary pop / R&B mode. The artist rose to the occasion, delivering vocal performances whose warmth and honesty balanced the smoothly accessible arrangements. Both of these albums, along with the edited single cover version of 10cc's mega-hit, "I'm Not In Love," are available now for the first time on compact disc, nearly three decades after their initial release.
Hipocrates Says: Did You Know? In 1993, Richie Havens performed at the Earth Ball to celebrate Bill Clinton's inauguration.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 I'm Not In Love
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2 We Can't Hide Anymore
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3 Dreaming As One
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4 You Can Close Your Eyes
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5 I Was Educated By Myself
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6 Daughter Of The Night
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7 If Not For You
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8 Do It Again
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9 Wild Night
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10 Long Train Running
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11 Live It Up (One Time)
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12 Shadows Of The Past
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13 I Don't Complain
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14 Touch The Sky
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15 Billy John
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16 We All Wanna Boogie
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17 Avalon
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18 Aviation Man
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19 Nobody Left To Crown
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20 The End
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21 I'm Not In Love (Edited Single Version)
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