Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Richie Havens performed a historical rendition of the song – retitled Freedom (Motherless Child) – on August 15, 1969 at the opening of the Woodstock festival. Elvis Presley used the first verse of the song to open the gospel sequence in his Comeback Special in 1968, sung by Darlene Love.
In 1999, Havens played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert for an audience of more than 100,000. [18] The release of 1993's Resume, The Best of Richie Havens, on Rhino Records, collected his late 1960s and early 1970s recordings. Havens played a small role, as a character named Daze, in the film Street Hunter (1990), starring John Leguizamo.
Jerry Merrick was an American folk singer-songwriter. His songs have been recorded by Richie Havens, B.J. Thomas, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Susan Tedeschi.. Merrick is best known for writing "Follow," which appeared on the 1967 Richie Havens LP Mixed Bag (MCA Verve/Folkways), which Rolling Stone called a "Sixties folk epic."
Covers of the song include versions by Judy Collins on Who Knows Where The Time Goes (1967), Joan Baez on Any Day Now (1968), and Richie Havens on Richard P. Havens, 1983 (1969). [44] Marion Williams released the song on a single in 1969. [44] Sidney Nelson of Nottingham Evening Post praised Collins's' version, describing it as better than ...
Something Else Again is the second studio album by American folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, released in January 1968. [3] The track "Run, Shaker Life" was based on a Shaker dance song by elder Issachar Bates [4] and reworked from Havens' old band, The Last Men, who reunited for this recording. [5] "
Alarm Clock is an album by the folk rock musician Richie Havens. [5] It was released in 1971 by Stormy Forest. [6] It is his highest charting album, reaching number 29 on the Billboard Top 200 in the United States.
Richie Havens – Cuts to the Chase, 1994. Judie Tzuke – Universal Soldiers various artists compilation, 1999. Fred Martin & the Levite Camp did a version of the song on their 2006 album Some Bridges that features an extra verse added by Martin. Holly Near – Show Up, 2006. [7]
At the time of release, Woodstock 40 Years On was the most complete collection ever released of the festival, until the 50th Anniversary box set in 2019. All the artists who performed at Woodstock are featured on the album, except for Ten Years After, The Band, and the Keef Hartley Band.