Homeless Brother

Homeless Brother
Homeless Brother
Studio album by Don McLean
Released	October 1974
Studio	Regent Sound Studios, New York City; Clack Studios
Genre	Folk; folk rock;
Length	38:31
Label	United Artists
Producer	Joel Dorn
Don McLean chronology
Singles from Homeless Brother
	"Wonderful Baby"; Released: June 1975;

Homeless Brother is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1974. It was reissued by BGO Records in 1996.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Rolling Stone	(positive) link

Track listing[edit]

All tracks composed by Don McLean except where indicated.

Side One

"Winter Has Me in Its Grip" 3:19
"La La Love You" 3:46
"Homeless Brother" 4:22
"Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" (George Harrison) 1:50
"The Legend of Andrew McCrew" 6:06

Side Two

"Wonderful Baby" 2:04
"You Have Lived" 3:42
"Great Big Man" 3:16
"Tangled (Like a Spider in Her Hair)" 3:39
"Crying in the Chapel" (Artie Glenn) 2:20
"Did You Know" 4:07

Chart positions[edit]

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Australian (Kent Music Report)^[1]	65
Billboard 200	120^{[citation needed]}

Personnel[edit]

Don McLean - vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
Richard Tee - keyboards
Hugh McCracken - guitars
David Spinozza - guitars
Willie Weeks - bass guitar
The Persuasions - backing vocals
Andrew Smith - drums
David Carey - percussion
Arthur Jenkins, Jr. - keyboards
Ralph MacDonald - percussion
Yusef Lateef - flute
Pete Seeger - backing vocals
Willis Jackson - tenor saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
George Duvivier - bass
Kenny Vance, Cissy Houston, Renelle Stafford, Ned Albright, Steven Soles, Deidre Tuck, Linda November, Joel Dorn, Helene Miles, Arlene Martell, Marlene VerPlanck, Norma Holes - backing vocals
Gerry Teifer - whistling
William Eaton - arrangements, conductor
Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Emanuel Vardi, Sanford Allen, Joseph Malignaggi, Avram Weiss, Diana Halprin, Charles Libove, Harry Cykman, Emanuel Green, Harry Lookofsky, Matthew Raimondi, Kermit Moore, Charles McCracken, Max Ellen, Max Pollikoff, Gene Orloff, David Nadien, Kathryn Kienke, Julius Schachter, Harold Kohon, Julius Held, Guy Lumia - strings
Joe Wilder, Garnett Brown, Wally King, James Buffington, Jonathan Dorn, Billy Slapin, Seldon Powell, George Barrow, Charles Williams, Dany Moore, Peter Gordon, Ray Alonge, George Marge, Brooks Tillotson - horns

Technical

Bob Liftin - recording and remixing engineer
Joe Ferla - additional recording
Marcote - cover painting

References[edit]

^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 187. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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[aus-1] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 187. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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v t e Don McLean
Discography
Studio albums	Tapestry American Pie Don McLean Playin' Favorites Homeless Brother Prime Time Chain Lightning Believers Love Tracks Headroom Christmas The River of Love Christmas Dreams Sings Marty Robbins You've Got to Share Songs for Children The Western Album Rearview Mirror: An American Musical Journey Addicted to Black
Live albums	Solo Dominion Starry, Starry Night
Compilation albums	The Very Best of Don McLean And I Love You So Favorites and Rarities Legendary Songs of Don McLean Christmastime!
Singles	"Castles in the Air" "American Pie" "Vincent" "Wonderful Baby" "Crying" "Since I Don't Have You" "He's Got You" "You Can't Blame the Train"
Other songs	"And I Love You So"
Related	"The Saga Begins" Carol Sauvion "Killing Me Softly with His Song"

v t e Yusef Lateef
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader	Jazz for the Thinker (1957) Jazz Mood (1957) Before Dawn (1957) Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957) Prayer to the East (1957) The Sounds of Yusef (1957) Other Sounds (1957) Lateef at Cranbrook (1958) The Dreamer (1959) The Fabric of Jazz (1959) Cry! – Tender (1959) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef\|Contemplation (1960) The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960) The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960) Lost in Sound (1961) Eastern Sounds (1961) Into Something (1961) Jazz 'Round the World (1963) Live at Pep's (1964) 1984 (1965) Psychicemotus (1965) A Flat, G Flat and C (1966) The Golden Flute (1966) The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967) The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968) Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969) The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969) Suite 16 (1970) The Gentle Giant (1971) Hush 'N' Thunder (1972) Part of the Search (1973) 10 Years Hence (1974) The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976) Autophysiopsychic (1977) In a Temple Garden (1979) In Nigeria (1983) Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
Split album	Stable Mates (with A. K. Salim, 1957)
With others	The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s) Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955) Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963) Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963) That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960) My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960) 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960) Images of Curtis Fuller (1960) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960) Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960) Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960) Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961) The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962) Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964) Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971) Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974) Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977) Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)
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