Donny Hathaway Everything Is Everything (Atlantic 75 Series) 45RPM (2 LP)

180g 45rpm Double LP!
Critically-Acclaimed Soul & R&B Album Featuring "The Ghetto" & "To Be Young, Gifted and Black!"
Pressed at QRP!
Atlantic 75 Historic Reissue Series from Analogue Productions!
Donny Hathaway's debut "Everything Is Everything" is definitely one of the most important works of soul and R&B music. Released in 1970, the album showed his extraordinary talent as a singer, songwriter and pianist and quickly reached higher positions on the US Billboard charts. Hathaway, who made a name for himself early on as a gospel singer under the name Donny Pitts, worked for Curtis Mayfield's record label Curtom Records before signing with Atlantic Records, where he worked as a songwriter, producer, arranger, composer, conductor and session musician.
"Everything Is Everything" was produced by Hathaway and Ric Powell, who plays drums and percussion on the album. With Leroy Hutson, the lead singer of the Impressions, he wrote the hit "The Ghetto" - one of the many highlights of the album, which also includes cover versions of songs by Ray Charles ("I Believe To My Soul") and Nina Simone ("To Be Young, Gifted And Black").
Finally, this timeless classic is now being reissued by Analogue Productions in deluxe format for the 75th anniversary of Atlantic Records! The double LP is cut at 45 rpm and was pressed on 180 gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings – of course in an elaborate gatefold cover from Stoughton Printing.
The album was Hathaway's first release after being signed to Atlantic in 1969. Hathaway had already built a reputation early in his life, first as a gospel singer as a child under the name Donny Pitts. Raised in St. Louis, with religious influences, his grandmother Martha Crumwell was herself an accomplished gospel singer and guitarist. After dropping out of Howard University in 1967, Hathaway moved to Chicago, his birthplace, and started working on music for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records label where he was a songwriter, producer, arranger, composer, conductor and session player.
Everything Is Everything was produced by Hathaway and Ric Powell, who plays drums and percussion on the album; Hathaway wrote or co-wrote five of the album's nine songs. Hathaway had met Powell while at Howard University, as well as the future Impressions lead singer, Leroy Hutson, who jointly wrote the hit song that would eventually make it on the album, "The Ghetto."
The track was mostly an instrumental, except for Hathaway's vocal ad-libs and his singing of the chorus. Hathaway and Hutson composed another socially conscious song for the album, titled "Tryin' Times." Other songs were split between covers (Ray Charles's "I Believe to My Soul" and Nina Simone's "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"), spiritual affairs ("Thank You Master for My Soul") and love songs ("Je Vous Aime [I Love You]").
Released in July 1970, the album peaked at No.73 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and No.33 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart.
This timeless classic is now reissued in the definitive deluxe 180-gram 45 RPM 2LP Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) format.
The 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records
"75 for 75" is a series of 75 vinyl releases from Atlantic Records' storied catalog to celebrate the label's 75th Anniversary. This great label includes some of the best artists and records of all time.

Features:

• Atlantic 75 Series
• 100% All-Analog
• 180g Vinyl
• 45rpm
• Double LP
• Mastered & Cut to Lacquer from the Original Master Tape
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Tip-On Old Style Gatefold Double Pocket Jacket by Stoughton Printing

Selections:

Side A
1. Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
2. Je Vous Aime (I Love You)
3. I Believe To My Soul
Side B
1. Misty
2. Sugar Lee
3. Tryin' Times
Side C
1. Thank You Master (For My Soul)
2. The Ghetto
Side D
1. To Be Young, Gifted And Black