Cannonball Adderley - Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry
Singer: Cannonball AdderleyTitle: Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry
Label: Fantasy – F-79006
Type: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold
Country: US
Date of released: 1975
Category: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style: Fusion, Musical
Size MP3 zip: 1879 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1725 mb
Rating: 4.0✭
Format: MP3 AA ASF APE MIDI VOC MPC AC3 FLAC
- 1725 downloads at 29 mb/s
MP3 version
- 1879 downloads at 32 mb/s
FLAC version
Tracklist
| A1 | Overture | 2:17 |
| A2 | Anybody Need A Big Man | 3:49 |
| A3 | Who Bend The Rainbow | 3:42 |
| A4 | Forty More Miles To Go/Rouster's Chant | 1:17 |
| A5 | Ten Mile Of Mountain/Recitative: Who Up In Heaven | 3:00 |
| B1 | Dialogue (Carolina) | 0:13 |
| B2 | Gonna Give Lovin' A Try | 3:15 |
| B3 | The Broomstick Song | 1:24 |
| B4 | Next Year In Jerusalem | 2:18 |
| B5 | Dialogue (Carolina, John Henry) | 0:27 |
| B6 | Stayin' Place (Intro) | 0:34 |
| B7 | Stayin' Place | 2:38 |
| B8 | Dialogue (Carolina) | 0:19 |
| B9 | A New Star Risin' | 2:02 |
| B10 | The Steamdrill Race (Intro) | 0:50 |
| C1 | Anybody Need A Big Man | 6:07 |
| C2 | Grind You Own Coffee | 3:10 |
| C3 | Anybody Need A Big Man/Dialogue (Deputy) | 0:47 |
| C4 | Hundred An' One Year/M'Ria | 1:29 |
| C5 | River | 2:11 |
| C6 | A New Star Risin' | 0:30 |
| C7 | Dialogue (Carolina & Jassawa) | 0:21 |
| D1 | Hundred An' One Year/M'ria | 1:15 |
| D2 | Recitative: Born Black | 2:12 |
| D3 | Dialogue (Jassawa) | 0:08 |
| D4 | Poundin' | 3:04 |
| D5 | Dialogue (John Henry & Bull Maree) | 0:38 |
| D6 | The Steamdrill Race | 1:32 |
| D7 | We Saved/Dialogue (Carolina) | 0:26 |
| D8 | Jesus Where You Now? | 2:03 |
| D9 | If I Was Jehovah | 2:36 |
| D10 | On His Bones (Finale) | 1:23 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Fantasy Studios
- Published By – Bi-Circle Music
- Published By – Tri-Circle Music
Credits
- Adapted By (Text) [Book By] – Diane Lampert, George W. George
- Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax] – Cannonball Adderley
- Art Direction – Phil Carroll
- 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
- Cover [Cover Art], Design – David Lance Goines
- Drums – Roy McCurdy
- Engineer – Jim Stern
- Featuring [Starring] – Joe Williams, Randy Crawford, Robert Guillaume
- Guitar – Billy Fender, Don Peake
- Keyboards – Dawilli Gonga
- Liner Notes – Diane Lampert
- Lyrics By – Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow
- Mastered By – David Turner
- Music By [A Folk Musical By] – Julian Adderley*, Nat Adderley
- Percussion – Airto Moreira, King Errisson
- Photography By [Photo Of Joe Williams] – Tony Lane
- Photography By [Photo Of Julian " Cannonball " Adderley] – Bruce Talamon
- Piano – Jimmy Jones
- Producer – Julian "Cannonball" Adderley*, David Axelrod, Nat Adderley
- 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
Notes
Cannonball Adderley'sBig Man
The Legend Of John Henry
Recording Produced for Junat Productions
(Airto appeared courtesy of CTI Records)
(Recorded at Fantasy Studios; Berkeley, Ca.)
1975, Fantasy® Records
Tenth and Parker
Berkeley, Ca. 94710
The sides of these records have been positioned to play in sequence on an automatic turntable.
Music; lyrics.
©1975, Bi-Circle Music (BMI) and Tri-Circle Music (ASCAP).
All rights reserved.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI, ASCAP
- Matrix / Runout (Side 1): F79006AREI
- Matrix / Runout (Side 2): F79006BREI
- Matrix / Runout (Side 3): F79006CREI
- Matrix / Runout (Side 4): F79006DREI
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-79006 | Cannonball Adderley | Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry (2xLP, Album) | Fantasy | F-79006 | US | 1975 |
| 8160 | Cannonball Adderley | Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry (8-Trk, Album) | Fantasy | 8160 | 1975 | |
| RGM-0353 | Cannonball Adderley | Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry (CD, Album) | Real Gone Music | RGM-0353 | US | 2015 |