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Leon Russell and the Shelter People is the second solo album by the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leon Russell. Released in 1971, it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 200 in the United States. The album has gold certification for sales of over 500,000 albums in the US and Canada.
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by the American author Robert A. Heinlein.It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture.
Leon Russell is the debut solo album by the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Leon Russell. It followed his debut with the Midnight String Quartet and a production by Russell and Marc Benno billed as the Asylum Choir .
The Leon Russell song was also released on his album Leon Russell and the Shelter People. In 2005, Mad Dogs & Englishmen was released as a two-disc deluxe edition set through Universal Records to commemorate the album's 35th anniversary.
The “hummingbird” in the song’s lyrics is a metaphor for Baha'u'llah, Prophet of the Baha'i Faith. The album version contains a prologue that is omitted from the shorter radio edit. The song reached No. 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [ 1 ] and number 15 on the Cash Box Top 100. [ 2 ] "
Leon Russell's daughter, Coco Bridges, performs backing vocals on the album and also did the album cover painting. Leon Russell's daughter, Sugaree Noel Bridges, performs backing vocals on the album. Russell reinterpreted " This Masquerade ", "Hummingbird" and " A Song for You ", three of his best-known songs, and also added an orchestral ...
Leon Live is a live album by singer and songwriter Leon Russell recorded on August 28, 1972, at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California.It was Russell's first live album and was originally released as a three-LP set in a tri-fold cover on Russell's Shelter Records label.
The song was released on August 16, 2005, [4] through Columbia Records as the first of three singles from Guilty Pleasures. Distributed digitally, and as both a CD single and DVD single, the standard edition CD features the album version of "Stranger in a Strange Land" while the promotional version uses the radio edit of the song instead.