Richie Havens - Dreaming As One: The A&M Years
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Artist: Richie HavensEdition: Music CD
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2006-11-13
Music Label: Hip-O Select
Soundtracks:
- I'm Not in Love
- We Can't Hide It Anymore
- Dreaming as One
- You Can Close Your Eyes
- I Was Educated by Myself
- Daughter of the Night
- If Not for You
- Do It Again
- Wild Night
- Long Train Running
- Live It Up (One Time)
- Shadows of the Past
- I Don't Complain
- Touch the Sky
- Billy John
- We All Wanna Boogie
- Avalon
- Aviation Man
- Nobody Left to Crown
- The End
- I'm Not in Love [Edited Single Version][Version]
Free Music Notes for Dreaming As One: The A&M Years
Free Music Review: Just as good as Richie's stellar work with Steve Hackett
Hit: 5 Stars
If you're a Richie Havens fan...or a Steve Hackett fan...or simply a fan of excellent music, you need to add Hackett's second solo album "Please Don't Touch" to your collection, if only for the heart-rending vocals served up by Richie on the song "Icarus Ascending." People who have heard this track know what I'm talking about.
The reason I started my review with that album is that during the A&M years, Richie defied expectations once again with tracks like 10CC's "I'm Not In Love." The original version was a breathy, melancholy, floating piece of McCartney-esque joy. But in the hands of Richie Havens it becomes a soaring, tortured, emotional tour de force (notice I did not say "melodramatic," because it most certainly is not).
When he gets to the part of the song in which he sings "Don't tell your friends about...THE TWO OF US...I'm not in love, no no no no no no...," every hair on your arms and the back of your neck will stand on end. My promise to you, the consumer.
There are plenty of tracks on this excellent Hip-O anothology (once again, a CD that was previously available only through the Hip-O online store, so kudos to Amazon for stocking it). While his version of "I'm Not In Love" is the undisputed masterpiece, you will be rewarded again and again and again with artistry that ventures fearlessly beyond what is expected and delivers shimmering, powerful moments of beauty and raw emotion.
And once again, the people who already own this album know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. If your knowledge of Richie Havens is limited to "Freedom" from the Woodstock movie, you don't know Richie Havens. You know one of his songs, but you don't know the breadth and depth of what he's recorded.
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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. 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.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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