Donny Gets Out of This Again
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| Nascence proper name | Donny Edward Hathaway |
| Also known as | Donny Pitts |
| Born | (1945-10-01)October one, 1945 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Origin | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1979(1979-01-13) (anile 33) New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1967–1979 |
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Donny Edward Hathaway (Oct 1, 1945 – Jan 13, 1979)[1] was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and arranger whom Rolling Stone described equally a "soul fable".[2] His virtually popular songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", and "Little Ghetto Male child". Hathaway is also renowned for his renditions of "A Vocal for You", "For All We Know", and "I Love You lot More than Yous'll E'er Know", along with "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations.[3] [four] [5] [6] Hathaway was also posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.[7] Dutch director David Kleijwegt made a documentary chosen Mister Soul – A Story Nearly Donny Hathaway, which premiered at the International Picture show Festival Rotterdam on January 28, 2020.[8]
Early life [edit]
Hathaway, the son of Drusella Huntley, was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised by his grandmother, Martha Pitts, also known equally Martha Crumwell, in the Carr Square housing project of St. Louis, Missouri. Hathaway began singing in the church choir with his grandmother, a professional gospel singer, at the age of iii, and studying piano. He graduated from Vashon High School in 1963.[9] Hathaway and then studied music on a fine arts scholarship at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he met Roberta Flack. At Howard, he was also a fellow member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Hathaway formed a jazz trio with drummer Ric Powell while there, but during 1967 left Howard only before completing a caste, after receiving job offers in the music business.[10]
Career [edit]
Hathaway worked equally a songwriter, session musician, and producer for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records in Chicago. He did the arrangements for hits by the Unifics ("Courtroom of Love" and "The Beginning of My Finish") and took role in projects by the Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, the Impressions and Curtis Mayfield himself. After becoming a "house producer" at Curtom, he started recording there. Hathaway recorded his start single under his own name in 1969, a duet with singer June Conquest chosen "I Thanks, Baby". They also recorded the duet "But Another Reason", released as the B-side. Onetime Cleveland Browns president Beak Futterer, who every bit a college educatee promoted Curtom in the southeast in 1968 and 1969, was befriended by Hathaway and has cited Hathaway'south influence on his later on projects.
That year, Hathaway signed to Atco Records, and so a division of Atlantic Records, after being spotted for the characterization past producer/musician King Curtis at a merchandise convention. He released his first single of note, "The Ghetto, Pt. ane", which he co-wrote with former Howard roommate Leroy Hutson, who became a performer, writer, and producer with Curtom. The track appeared the following year on his critically acclaimed debut LP, Everything Is Everything, which he co-produced with Ric Powell while also arranging all the cuts.
His second LP, Donny Hathaway, consisted generally of covers of gimmicky pop, soul, and gospel songs. His 3rd anthology Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was an album of duets with former Howard University acquaintance and label mate Roberta Flack that established him, especially on the pop charts. The album was a critical and commercial success, including the Ralph MacDonald-penned track "Where Is the Love", which proved to exist not simply an R&B success, but also scored Top Five on the pop Hot 100.[11] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gilded disc by the RIAA on September 5, 1972.[12] The anthology too included other covers, including versions of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend", "Baby I Dearest You", originally a hit for Aretha Franklin, and "Y'all've Lost That Loving Feeling".
Perhaps Hathaway'south virtually influential recording is his 1972 anthology, Live, which has been termed "one of the best live albums ever recorded" by Daryl Easlea of the BBC.[13] The album is on the British online music and culture mag The Quietus' listing of "twoscore Favourite Live Albums".[fourteen] Information technology was recorded at two concerts: side one at the Troubadour in Hollywood, and side two at The Bitter Cease in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
Hathaway was the co-composer and performer of the Christmas standard, "This Christmas". The song, released in 1970, has become a holiday staple and is oftentimes used in movies, television and advert. "This Christmas" has been covered by numerous artists beyond diverse musical genres, including The Whispers, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The 4 Tops, Stevie Wonder, Alexander O'Neal, Christina Aguilera, Chicago, Harry Connick, Jr., Dru Hill, *NSYNC, Gloria Estefan, Boney James, The Cheetah Girls, Chris Brown, Anthony Arnett (Get-go Baptist Bracktown Christmas Celebration), Patti LaBelle and Mary J. Blige (A Mary Christmas), Seal, Railroad train and CeeLo Light-green, amid other artists.
Hathaway followed this flurry of work with contributions to soundtracks, along with his recording of the theme song to the TV series Maude. He equanimous and conducted music for the 1972 soundtrack of the moving-picture show Come Back Charleston Blueish.[ citation needed ] In the mid-1970s, he produced albums for other artists including Cold Blood, where he expanded the musical range of lead vocalizer Lydia Pense.
His final studio album, Extension of a Man came out in 1973 with 2 tracks, "Love Love Love" and "I Dear Y'all More than You'll Ever Know" reaching both the pop and R&B charts. It also included his archetype ballad, "Anytime We'll All Exist Gratuitous" and a six-infinitesimal symphonic-styled instrumental piece called "I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry". He told Britain music journalist David Nathan in 1973, "I always liked pretty music and I've always wanted to write information technology." Added the writer, "He declined to give 1 item influence or inspiration merely said that Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky were amongst whom he studied."[15]
He returned to the charts in 1978 after again teaming upwardly with Roberta Flack for a duet, "The Closer I Go to You lot" on her anthology, Blue Lights in the Basement. The song topped the R&B chart and reached the No. two spot on the Hot 100.[16] Atlantic then put out another solo single, "You Were Meant For Me" shortly before his sudden death.
Liner notes for later releases of his final solo album explain: "Donny is no longer hither, merely the song "Someday We'll All Be Free" gathers momentum as part of his legacy... Donny literally sabbatum in the studio and cried when he heard the playback of his final mix. It's pretty special when an artist tin create something that wipes them out." Edward Howard, lyricist of the vocal, adds, "It was a spiritual thing for me... What was going through my heed at the fourth dimension was Donny, because Donny was a very troubled person. I hoped that at some bespeak he would exist released from all that he was going through. There was cypher I could do merely write something that might be encouraging for him. He's a good leader for immature black men".
Personal life [edit]
Family [edit]
In 1967, Hathaway married Eulaulah Vann.[17] The two met while attending Howard University where both were studying music.[17] They had two daughters, Eulaulah Donyll (Lalah) and Republic of kenya Canc'Libra. Lalah has enjoyed a successful solo career, while Kenya is a session singer and one of the three backing vocalists on the hit TV plan American Idol. Both daughters are graduates of the Berklee College of Music.[xviii] [19] [10]
Mental illness [edit]
During the summit of his career, Hathaway began suffering from astringent bouts of depression and exhibiting unusual beliefs. In 1971, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for which he was prescribed diverse medications. At i point, Hathaway was prescribed fourteen unlike medications that he was to take twice a solar day. After Hathaway was diagnosed and began taking medication, his mental state improved. Withal, Eulaulah Hathaway has said that her hubby became less than diligent most following his prescription regimen when he began feeling ameliorate and often stopped taking his medications birthday.[10] From 1973 to 1977, Hathaway's mental instability wreaked havoc on his life and career and required several hospitalizations. The effects of his depression and severe mood swings also drove a wedge in his and Flack's friendship; they did not reconcile for several years, and did non release additional music until the successful release of "The Closer I Get To You" in 1978. Flack and Hathaway then resumed studio recording to compose a second album of duets.
Death [edit]
Sessions for another album of duets were underway in 1979. On January 13, Hathaway began a recording session with producers/musicians Eric Mercury and James Mtume. Each reported that although Hathaway was singing fine, he began behaving irrationally, seeming to exist paranoid and delusional. According to Mtume, Hathaway said that white people were trying to kill him and had connected his brain to a machine for the purpose of stealing his music and his sound.[x] Given Hathaway'due south behavior, Mercury said that he decided the recording session could not continue, then he aborted it and all of the musicians went habitation.[10]
Hours after, Hathaway was institute expressionless on the pavement beneath the window of his 15th-floor room in New York Urban center'south Essex House hotel.[1] It was reported that he had jumped from his balustrade.[twenty] The glass had been neatly removed from the window and there were no signs of a struggle, leading investigators to rule that Hathaway's death was a suicide. Flack was devastated and, spurred by his death, included the few duet tracks they had finished on her next album, Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway. According to Mercury, Hathaway'south final recording, included on that anthology, was "You Are My Heaven", a song Mercury co-wrote with Stevie Wonder.
Hathaway'south funeral was conducted past Reverend Jesse Jackson. Later in 1979, the Whispers recorded the tribute song, "Vocal for Donny", for their self-titled album. The song reached No. 21 on the R&B chart. That same year, they used that tribute song's arrangement to do a cover of Hathaway'southward song "This Christmas", included on their Happy Holidays to You Christmas album.
Influence [edit]
Co-ordinate to Allison Keyes from NPR, Hathaway's solo recordings are "part of the foundation of American soul music" and have "influenced performers from R&B singers Alicia Keys & Aaliyah to rapper Common to singer-guitarist George Benson".[21] He was named the 49th-greatest singer of all fourth dimension in a 2010 list published past Rolling Stone.[22] Justin Timberlake called him "the all-time singer of all fourth dimension."[22] Raúl Midón said that Hathaway is "the strongest soul singer that ever existed" and compares his vocal technique to a classical vocalist.[21] "When Donny sings whatsoever song, he owns it," Stevie Wonder was quoted by David Ritz as saying.[3] Amy Winehouse chosen Hathaway her favorite artist of all time.[23] Rock critic Robert Christgau described Hathaway as "a synthesizer of limitless cultural aspiration" who "conveyed a sense of roots" and was never content with "the classbound pop fantasies of Ashford & Simpson", just mused that "the idealistic credulousness of a project that incorporated pop, jazz, a piffling blues, lots of gospel, and the solarium into an all-over black mode is linked to the floridity that mars much of his piece of work."[24]
Discography [edit]
Studio albums [edit]
| Year | Album | Chart positions | Certifications | Record label | |||
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| United states of america [xvi] | United states of america R&B [xvi] | AUS [25] | UK [26] | ||||
| 1970 | Everything Is Everything | 73 | 33 | — | — | — | Atco |
| 1971 | Donny Hathaway | 89 | vi | — | — | — | |
| 1972 | Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway | three | 2 | 22 | 31 |
| Atlantic |
| 1973 | Extension of a Human | 69 | 18 | — | — | — | Atco |
| 1980 | Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway | 25 | four | — | — |
| Atlantic |
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or was not certified | |||||||
Live albums [edit]
| Year | Album | Chart positions | Certifications | Record label | ||
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| The states [xvi] | U.s. R&B [16] | UK [26] | ||||
| 1972 | Live | 18 | 4 | — |
| Atco |
| 1980 | In Operation | 201 | 68 | — | — | Atlantic |
| 2004 | These Songs for Y'all, Alive! | — | 78 | — | — | |
| 2014 | Live at the Bitter End, 1971 | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or was not certified | ||||||
Soundtrack albums [edit]
| Year | Anthology | Nautical chart positions | Certifications | Record label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [xvi] | U.s. R&B [16] | Britain [26] | ||||
| 1972 | Come Back Charleston Blueish | 198 | — | — | — | Atco |
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or was non certified | ||||||
Compilation albums [edit]
| Year | Album | Nautical chart positions | Certifications | Tape label | |||
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| United states [16] | The states R&B [16] | KOR (Int.) [28] | UK [26] | ||||
| 1972 | The Nearly Beautiful Songs of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway | — | — | — | — | — | Atlantic |
| 1978 | The Best of Donny Hathaway | — | 51 | — | — | — | Atco |
| 1990 | A Donny Hathaway Collection | 135 [29] | — | — | — | — | Atlantic |
| 2000 | Complimentary Soul: The Classic of Donny Hathaway | — | — | — | — | — | WEA Int'fifty |
| 2010 | Someday We'll All Be Gratuitous | — | — | — | — | — | Atlantic |
| Original Anthology Series | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | Flashback with Donny Hathaway | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2013 | Never My Love: The Anthology | — | — | 67 | — | — | Atco |
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or was non certified | |||||||
Singles [edit]
| Yr | Single | Nautical chart positions | Certifications | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [16] | Us R&B [16] | United states of america A/C [sixteen] | UK [26] | |||
| 1969 | "I Cheers Baby" (with June Conquest) | — | 45 | — | — | |
| 1970 | "The Ghetto – Part 1" | 87 | 23 | — | — | |
| "This Christmas" | 39 [30] | — | — | — | ||
| 1971 | "You've Got a Friend" (with Roberta Flack) | 29 | eight | 36 | — | |
| "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (with Roberta Flack) | 71 | 30 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | "Little Ghetto Boy" | 109 | 25 | — | — | |
| "Giving Up" | 81 | 21 | — | — | ||
| "I Give thanks You lot" (re-release) (with June Conquest) | 94 | 41 | — | — | ||
| "Where Is the Love" (with Roberta Flack) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 29 |
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| "Come up Dorsum Charleston Blue" (with Margie Joseph) | 102 | — | — | — | ||
| "I Dear You lot More Than You'll Ever Know" | 60 | 20 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | "Love, Honey, Dear" | 44 | xvi | — | — | |
| "Come Piffling Children" | — | 67 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | "The Closer I Go to Y'all" (with Roberta Flack) | ii | one | 3 | 42 |
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| "You Were Meant for Me" | — | 17 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | "Y'all Are My Heaven" (with Roberta Flack) | 47 | eight | 46 | — | |
| "Back Together Over again" (with Roberta Flack) | 56 | eight | — | 3 | ||
| "—" denotes the unmarried failed to chart or was non certified | ||||||
With Phil Upchurch
- Upchurch (Cadet, 1969)
- The Mode I Feel (Cadet, 1970)
Tributes [edit]
- On soul group the Whispers' 1979 self-titled album, the grouping paid homage with "Vocal for Donny", written by fellow soul singer Carrie Lucas. The song was set to the melody of Hathaway'due south "This Christmas".
- In 1999 Aaron Hall recorded a brief tribute version of "Anytime Nosotros'll All Be Free" on the third album for his group Guy titled Guy Three, with Teddy Riley and Damion Hall
- In September 2001, Alicia Keys performed "Someday We'll All Be Free" on the 9/11 televised tribute concert America: A Tribute to Heroes.
- In 2005, neo-soul singer songwriter guitarist, Raul Midón (Blue Note) worked with Hathaway's longtime producer Arif Mardin (known for collaborations with the Bee Gees, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler, Norah Jones, and Aretha Franklin) and created a tribute song to Hathaway chosen "Sittin' in the Middle".
- In 2005 Donny Hathaway's standout version of the 1934 classic "For All We Know" was honored in a cover by R&B (Jive/RCA, Behemothic, Arista/Bad Male child)vocalist Anthony "Tony" Ulysses Thompson (1976-2007), on his Indie characterization (In-Depth) "The Return" anthology; Thompson'south final solo-single recording, every bit tribute to Hathaway.
- In her 2006 vocal "Rehab", Amy Winehouse sings of learning from "Mr. Hathaway" instead of going to rehab.
- In 2007, Deniece Williams covered "Someday We'll All Exist Free" for her Love, Niecy Manner album. Williams afterward shared that she bankrupt downward in tears in the studio while recording.
- In 2008, Ed Pavlic published Winners Have Yet to Exist Announced (University of Georgia Press), poems re-imagining the life of Donny Hathaway.
- The song "What a Take hold of, Donnie", from Fall Out Boy's quaternary studio anthology, Folie à Deux (2008), is named for Hathaway and mentions Roberta Flack, his writing partner.
- Bizzy Os's vocal entitled "A Song for You", is a track that includes an estimation of Donny Hathaway's original recording of the same name.
- In 2010, Amy Winehouse sang one of Donny's songs "We're Still Friends" for a live concert.
- In the 2013 song "Classic", band MKTO references writing songs "like Hathaway"
- In 2017, in the episode "The Get-go Twenty-four hour period of the Residue of Your Life" from AMC's The Walking Dead. The character of Sasha, played past Sonequa Martin-Green, dies past suicide while listening to "Anytime We'll All Be Free."
- In 2019, in the episode "And Salt the Earth Behind You" from HBO's Euphoria. Hathaway's cover of "A Song for You" plays during a montage of the day of the expiry of the father of the graphic symbol of Rue Bennett, played past Zendaya.
- In the 2019 song "Ladies, Ladies, Ladies", JID raps that he knew a girl who "used to love Donny Hathaway".
- In 2021, Hathaway'due south embrace of John Lennon'south "Jealous Guy" was used during the credits in episode 7 of 2nd season of Mythic Quest.[31]
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External links [edit]
- Donny Hathaway at AllMusic
- Donny Hathaway discography at Discogs
- Donny Hathaway at IMDb
- Donny Hathaway at Find a Grave
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_Hathaway
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