Live (Donny Hathaway album)

Infobox Album
Name = Live
Type = live
Artist = Donny Hathaway


Released = Start date|1972
Recorded = The Troubadour in Hollywood & The Bitter End in New York
Genre = Rhythm and Blues/Soul
Length = 52:39
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Arif Mardin (side one) Jerry Wexler & Arif Mardin (side two)
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wxfyxq95ld6e link]
Last album = "Donny Hathaway"
This album = "Live"
(1972)
Next album = "Extension of a Man"
(1973)

"Live" is a 1972 live album (see 1972 in music) by American Soul artist Donny Hathaway. It was recorded at two concerts: side one at The Troubadour in Hollywood, and side two at the The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. It features only one song penned by Hathaway, "The Ghetto", with the rest of the set consisting of cover songs. The album features some tradition soul anthems, such as Marvin Gaye's 1971 hit "What's Going On", but also Carole King's folk standard "You've Got a Friend".

There are two solos on the album, one on the track "The Ghetto" by Hathaway on electric piano and another by Willie Weeks on bass on the track "Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)", taken from the performance recorded at The Troubadour.

Track listing

ide one

#"What's Going On" (Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) - 5:18
#"The Ghetto" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson) - 12:08
#"Hey Girl" (Earl DeRouen) - 4:03
#"You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) - 4:34

ide two

#"Little Ghetto Boy" (Derouen, Eddy Howard) - 4:29
#"We're Still Friends" (Hathaway, Watts) - 5:12
#"Jealous Guy" (John Lennon) - 3:08
#"Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)" (Richard Evans, Philip Upchurch, Ric Powell) - 13:47

Personnel

*Donny Hathaway – vocals, electric piano, piano, organ, arrangements
*Phil Upchurch – lead guitar on side one
*Cornell Dupree – lead guitar on side two
*Mike Howard – guitar
*Willie Weeks – bass
*Fred White – drums
*Earl DeRouen – conga drums
*Ray Thompson – recording engineer on side one
*Tom Fly – recording engineer on side two

Later Samples

*"Little Ghetto Boy"
**"Little Ghetto Boys" by Wu-Tang Clan from the album "Wu-Tang Forever"