Label: Buddha Records (US), 7446599604-2
Style: Rock, Progressive Rock, Pop Rock
Country: U.S. (October 11, 1946) / England (16 May 1946)
Time: 52:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 356 Mb
Sacred
Songs is the first solo album by American singer/songwriter Daryl Hall.
It was produced by guitarist Robert Fripp, who also played on the
album. Its chart debut was March 29, 1980.
The album was recorded in
1977, but RCA Records did not release it for three years. According to
Nick Tosches, who wrote Dangerous Dances, the authorized biography of
Hall & Oates, "RCA refused to release Sacred Songs on the grounds
that it wasn't commercial" (p 85). When finally issued, the album sold
well, but ultimately did not yield a hit single.
In the early 1970s,
Hall had formed Hall & Oates, a partnership with
guitarist/songwriter John Oates. They had produced several hit pop
singles, but Hall had grown to feel artistically limited and in 1977 was
much more concerned with expressing his own outlook on life and music
than with making more hit songs.
Fripp had dissolved his group King
Crimson in 1974, and after a sabbatical, returned to music with session
work and other guest appearances.
According to the notes for the 1999
CD reissue of Sacred Songs, and to Eric Tamm's book-length study of
Fripp's music, Hall and Fripp first met in 1974. Already familiar with
one another's work, the duo felt an instant rapport, and planned to work
together.
In 1977, Hall and Fripp reconnected while Hall was writing
songs for his solo debut; Hall drafted Fripp as producer and guitarist.
Hall wrote all the songs, except "Urban Landscape", (a 'Frippertronics'
solo), and "NYCNY" for which Fripp wrote the music and Hall the lyrics,
and which appeared also on Fripp's Exposure (1979) only with different
lyrics as "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You".
Sacred
Songs was recorded in a span of three weeks, with most of the songs
initially recorded with Hall singing and playing piano alongside Fripp's
guitar work, followed by overdubs by Hall & Oates' regular touring
band. Hall insisted on working with his own band rather than with the
Los Angeles session musicians who had played on Bigger Than Both of Us
(1976), the previous fifth Hall & Oates album. Although the session
players were uniformly excellent musicians, Hall felt their performances
were hampered by a disconnectedness from the songs. The album was
originally intended to be part of a loose trilogy of sorts with Peter
Gabriel's 1978 second album and Fripp's Exposure (1979), all of which
Fripp produced.
Besides Hall and Fripp, the backing band for the
album consisted of bassist Kenny Passarelli, drummer Roger Pope, and
guitarist Caleb Quaye, all of whom were then part of the second
iteration of the Elton John Band, which had started recording and
touring with John beginning in 1975.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Songs)
01. Sacred Songs (03:18)
02. Something In 4/4 Time (04:26)
03. Babs and Babs (07:50)
04. Urban Landscape (02:23)
05. Nycny (04:35)
06. The Parther Away I Am (02:53)
07. Why Was It So Easy (05:31)
08. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her (06:25)
09. Survive (06:41)
10. Without Tears (02:54)
11. You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette (bonus track) (02:20)
12. North Star (bonus track) (03:10)
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