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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.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
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."
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music is a 4-CD live box-set album of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. [1] Its release marked the 25th anniversary of the festival.
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: All Along the Watchtower [243] I Pity the Poor Immigrant [243] If Not for You [243] It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [243] Just Like a Woman [30] Maggie's Farm [65] Oxford Town: Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands [243] Tombstone Blues [243] Edwin Hawkins Singers: Blowin' in the Wind [244] Robert Hazard: Blowin' in the Wind [245] Isaac ...
Richard P. Havens, 1983 is a 1968 double album set by folk rock musician Richie Havens featuring a combination of studio recordings and live material recorded in concert during July 1968. The album combined original material with several of the covers for which Havens was known.