Album · 1975
Tracklist
A1 Overture
A2 Anybody Need a Big Man
A3 Who Bend the Rainbow
A4 Forty More Miles to Go / Rouster's Chant
A5 Ten Mile of Mountain / Recitative: Who up in Heaven
B1 Hundred an' One Year / M'ria
B2 Recitative: Born Black
B3 Dialogue
B4 Poundin'
B5 Dialogue
B6 The Steamdrill Race
B7 We Saved / Dialogue
B8 Jesus Where You Now?
B9 If I Was Jehovah
B10 On His Bones
C1 Dialogue
C2 Gonna Give Lovin' a Try
C3 The Broomstick Song
C4 Next Year in Jerusalem
C5 Dialogue
C6 Stayin' Place (Intro)
C7 Stayin' Place
C8 Dialogue
C9 A New Star Risin'
C10 The Steamdrill Race (Intro)
D1 Anybody Need a Big Man
D2 Grind You Own Coffee
D3 Anybody Need a Big Man / Dialogue
D4 Hundred an' One Year / Dialogue
D5 River
D6 A New Star Risin'
D7 Dialogue
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax] – Cannonball Adderley
Bass – Carol Kaye, Walter Booker
Chorus – Billie Barnum, Charles May, Donald Dandridge, Fleming Williams, Gwendolyn Owens, Jessie Richardson, Josef Powell, Michael Gray , Mortonette Jenkins, Sherwood Sledge, Stephanie Spruill, Vernettya Royster
Concertmaster – Jack Shulman
Drums – Roy McCurdy
Featuring [Starring] – Joe Williams, Randy Crawford, Robert Guillaume
Guitar – Billy Fender, Don Peake
Keyboards – Dawilli Gonga
Percussion – Airto Moreira, King Errisson
Piano – Jimmy Jones
Reeds – Donald Menza , Jackie Kelso, Jay Migliori, William Green
Strings – Alexander Neiman, Alfred Lustgarten, Arthur H. Brown, Bernard Kundell, Edgar Lustgarten , Gareth Nuttycombe, Henry Roth, Jack Shulman, Jerome Reisler, Kathleen Lustgarten, Mary Newkirk, Pamela Goldsmith, William Henderson, William Hymanson
Text By [From Material By] – G.W. George , Paul Avila Mayer, Peter Farrow
Trombone – Dick Hyde, George Bohanon
Trumpet – Allen DeRienzo , Oliver Mitchell, Oscar Brashear
Voice Actor [Carolina] – Randy Crawford
Voice Actor [Jassawa] – Robert Guillaume
Voice Actor [John Henry] – Joe Williams
Voice Actor [Sheriff, Bull Maree] – Lane Smith
Voice Actor [Whore] – Judy Thames
About this release
Fantasy – F-79006 (US)
Recorded at Fantasy Studios; Berkeley, Ca
Thanks to snobb for the addition