Belafonte Sings The Blues CLASSIC RECORDS (RCA Living Stereo) LSP 1972 45rpm x 4
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Feb 1, 2015
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HARRY BELAFONTE Belafonte Sings The Blues CLASSIC RECORDS (RCA Living Stereo) LSP 1972-45 (4 Audiophile disc set) Mastered by Bernie Grundman - Pressed at RTI
TracklistHide Credits
A1 A Fool For You Written-By – Ray Charles 3:38 A2 Losing Hand Written-By – Charles Calhoun 4:16 A3 One For My Baby Written-By – Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen4:34 B1 In The Evenin' Mama Written-By – C. C. Carter* 3:29 B2 Hallelujah I Love Her So Written-By – Ray Charles 2:53 B3 The Way That I Feel Written-By – Fred Brooks
4:29 C1 Cotton Fields Written-By – C. C. Carter* 5:17 C2 God Bless' The Child Written-By – Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday
5:03 D1 Mary Ann Written-By – Ray Charles 2:41 D2 Sinner's Prayer Written-By – Lowell Fulson 4:42 D3 Fare Thee Well Written-By – Fred Brooks 4:37
*(all photos are of the actual item)
- Copyright (c) – RCA
- Manufactured By – Classic Records
- Cover, Artwork – Dick Stone (2)
- Leader [Hollywood] – Dennis Farnon
- Leader [New York, January 29] – Alan Greene (4)
- Leader [New York, March 29] – Bob Corman
- Liner Notes – Nat Hentoff
- Producer – Ed Welker
Notes
Recorded in New York, January 29, 1958 and March 29; in Hollywood, June 5 and 7, 1958.RCA Living Stereo releases includes the inimitable vocal stylings of Harry Belafonte singing the timeless words and music of American blues in truly breath-taking sound.
Harry Belafonte's ground-breaking blues set available for the first time on 45rpm 180g Vinyl.
Harry Belafonte has never before sung on records as he does in this album. He is freer, more earthy, more exultantly identified with his material than ever before. He ha always communicated an often ferocious as well as lyrical sensitivity, but in this collection he achieves a unity of emotional strength in and understanding of his material that marks an important stage in his evolution as an artist.
"This is the area - the blues - with which I have the strongest identification," emphasizes Belafonte. It took a long time, however, before he was able to make this kind of a direct, basic blues album. By blues, incidentally, it is not meant that the songs are strict blues in terms of bar and chord structure, but that the feeling and the wryly unconquerable spirit of the blues pervade all the numbers.
"When I started singing," Belafonte explains, "I was involved with an enbironment that emphasized the modern school of jazz, and it was difficult for me to adapt the way I felt to the requirements of that kind of singing. But that was what I was exposed to at the time. I've always had a feeling for the basic blues, but it took several years of removing myself from the predominantly modern jazz environment and finding myself and my own set of balues before I had teh courage to attempt an album like this. Here I can just step out and sing wholly the way I feel."
Belafonte Sings the Blues was recorded over four sessions during the first half of 1958, and released by RCA later that year. The album features performances of numerous Billie Holiday, Johnny Mercer, and Ray Charles songs performed in a way that only Belafonte can.
The blues are close to Belafonte's heart and it shows in the way he delivers such tunes as "One For My Baby", "Cotton Fields" and "God Bless the Child" among others.
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