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Cedar Walton / Hank Mobley Quintet: Breakthrough!

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In April 1972, “Cobblestone” label released “Breakthrough!”, album by the Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley Quintet. It was recorded in February 1972, at “Bell Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Don Schlitten.

Personnel:

  • Hank Mobley — tenor saxophone
  • Cedar Walton — piano, electric piano
  • Charles Davis – soprano and baritone saxophone
  • Sam Jones — double bass
  • Billy Higgins — drums

Track listing:

  1. Breakthrough – Hank Mobley
  2. Sabiá – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque
  3. House on Maple Street – Cedar Walton
  4. (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story – Francis Lai, Carl Sigman
  5. Summertime – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
  6. 18th Hole – Hank Mobley

Dust: Same

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In January 1971, “Kama Sutra” label released the self-titled, debut Dust studio album. It was recorded in 1971, at “Bell Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Kenny Aaronson and Kenny Kerner.

Personnel:

  • Richie Wise – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Kenny Aaronson – bass, steel, dobro, bottleneck guitars
  • Marc Bell – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Richie Wise and Kenny Kerner, except where noted.

  1. Stone Woman
  2. Chasin’ Ladies
  3. Goin’ Easy
  4. Love Me Hard
  5. From a Dry Camel
  6. Often Shadows Felt
  7. Loose Goose

Gladys Knight & The Pips: Imagination

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On October 9, 1973, “Buddah” label released “Imagination”, the eleventh Gladys Knight & the Pips studio album. It was recorded June – September 1973, at “Venture Sound” in Somerville, New Jersey, “Bell Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Tony Camillo, Kenny Kerner, Richie Wise, Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight, William Guest and Edward Patten.

Personnel:

  • Gladys Knight – lead vocals
  • Merald “Bubba” Knight – backing vocals
  • William Guest – backing vocals
  • Edward Patten – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Jim Weatherly, except where noted.

  1. Midnight Train to Georgia
  2. I’ve Got My Imagination – Gerry Goffin, Barry Goldberg
  3. Storms of Troubled Times
  4. Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
  5. Once in a Lifetime Thing
  6. Where Peaceful Waters Flow
  7. I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Cash
  8. Perfect Love – Paul Williams
  9. Window raisin Granny – William Guest, Gladys Knight, Merald Knight, Edward Patten

Donny Hathaway: Extension Of A Man

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On June 18, 1973, “Atco” label released “Extension of a Man”, the fourth and final Donny Hathaway studio album. It was recorded October – November 1972, at “A&R”, “Bell Sound”, “Regent Sound” and “Atlantic” in New York City, “Universal” in Chicago, and was produced by Arif Mardin.

Personnel:

  • Donny Hathaway – lead vocals, Fender Rhodes electric piano, all pianos, Hammond organ, keyboards, bass, arrangements
  • Cornell Dupree – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Hugh McCracken – banjo, guitar
  • Willie Weeks, Russ Savakus, Stanley Clarke, Gordon Edwards – bass
  •  Grady Tate, Fred White, Rick Marotta, Ray Lucas – drums
  • Ralph MacDonald – percussion
  • Emanuel Green, Harry Lookofsky, Julien Barber, Noel DaCosta, Sanford Allen, Theodore Israel – violin
  • Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Kermit Moore – cello
  • Gloria Agostini – harp 
  • David Newman – saxophone
  • Marvin Stamm, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal – trumpet
  • Dominick Gravine, Garnett Brown, Paul Faulise, Wayne Andre, Tony Studd, Garnett Brown – trombone
  • Hubert Laws – flute
  • Don Butterfield – tuba
  • Phil Bodner – clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Seldon Powell – clarinet, reeds, tenor saxophone
  • Vincent Abato – clarinet
  • Romeo Penque, William Slapin – reeds
  • Jim Buffington, Julius Watkins, Tony Miranda – French horn
  • Henry Schuman – oboe
  • Myrna Summers & The Interdenominational Singers – choir 
  • Cissy Houston, Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shemwell, Jimmy Douglass, Mario “Big M” Medious, Richard Wells, William “Mac” McCollum – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Donny Hathaway, except where noted.

  1. I Love the Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I & II)
  2. Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway, Edward Howard
  3. Flying Easy
  4. Valdez in the Country
  5. I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know – Al Kooper
  6. Come Little Children
  7. Love, Love, Love – J.R. Bailey, Ken Williams
  8. The Slums
  9. Magdalena – Danny O’Keefe
  10. I Know It’s You – Leon Ware
  11. Lord Help Me – Joe Greene, Billy Preston

The Isley Brothers: Twisting and Shouting

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On July 25, 1963, “United Artists” label released “Twisting and Shouting”, the third Isley Brothers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1963, at “Bell Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Bert Bernes.

Personnel:

  • Ronald Isley – lead vocals
  • O’Kelly Isley, Jr. – backing vocals
  • Rudolph Isley – backing vocals
  • Alan Lorber – conductor 
  • Garry Sherman – conductor

Tracking listing:

All tracks by Rudolp Isley, O’ Kelly Isley and Ronald Isley, except where noted.

  1. Surf and Shout – Phil Medley, Ruth Batchelor
  2. Please, Please, Please – James Brown, Johnny Terry
  3. She’s the One
  4. Tango
  5. What’cha Gonna Do
  6. Stagger Lee – Lloyd Price, Harold Logan
  7. You’ll Never Leave Him – Bert Russell
  8. Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go – Hank Ballard
  9. She’s Gone
  10. Shake It with Me Baby
  11. Long Tall Sally – Enotris Johnson
  12. Do the Twist – Dale Hawkins

The Isley Brithers: Twist and Shout

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On April 15, 1962, “Wand” label released “Twist & Shout”, the second Isley Brothers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1962, at “Bell Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Bert Berns.

Track listing:

  • Ronald Isley – lead vocals
  • O’Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley – backing vocals
  • Tom Owen – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Twist and Shout – Phil Medley, Bert Russell
  2. I Say Love – Phil Medley, Bert Russell
  3. Right Now – Elaine Jasper
  4. Hold on Baby – Phil Medley, Bert Russell
  5. Rubber Leg Twist – Nate Nelson, Elaine Jasper
  6. The Shake – Elaine Jasper
  7. You Better Come Home – Bert Russell
  8. Never Leave Me Baby – Bert Russell, Phil Medley
  9. Spanish Twist – Bert Russell
  10. Time After Time – Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
  11. Lets Twist Again – Kal Mann, Dave Appell
  12. Don’t You Feel – Bert Russell, Donald Drowty