Songs from a Parent to a Child
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Songs from a Parent to a Child | ||||
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Released | June 3, 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 36:01 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Art Garfunkel | |||
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Songs from a Parent to a Child is the eighth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel and his first new studio release since Lefty nine years earlier. Released as a concept album in 1997, it features his son, wife and a host of celebrity musicians, and was built on the concept of children's songs. The cover photograph was taken by Douglas Foulke on Bow Bridge, Central Park, New York City.[2] The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Album for Children.
Track listing
[edit]- "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?" (Traditional) - 1:51
- "Morning Has Broken" (Eleanor Farjeon) - 2:53
- "Daydream" (John Sebastian) - 2:44
- "Baby Mine" (Ned Washington, Frank Churchill) - 3:39
- "Secret O' Life" (James Taylor) – 3:36
- "The Things We've Handed Down" (Marc Cohn) - 4:37
- "You're A Wonderful One" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) - 3:12
- "Good Luck Charm" (Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold) - 2:26
- "I Will" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:17
- "Lasso The Moon" (Billy Simon, Lowell Alexander) - 3:28
- "Dreamland" (Mary Chapin Carpenter) - 3:10
- "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Reprise)" (Traditional) - 1:41
- "The Lord's Prayer / Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (Albert Hay Malotte/Traditional) - 3:52
Personnel
[edit]- Art Garfunkel – vocals
- James Garfunkel, Kim Garfunkel, Merry Clayton, Maxine Waters, Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals
- Steve Gadd, Bill Maxwell, Russ Kunkel, Chris Parker – drums
- Lee Sklar, Mark Egan, Freddie Washington – bass guitar
- Warren Bernhardt – piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ B3
- Eric Weissberg – dobro, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
- Billy Preston – piano, Hammond organ
- John Sebastian - guitar, harmonica, whistling
- Paulinho da Costa, Raphael Padilla – percussion
- Dean Parks, Tony Maiden, Stuart Breed – guitar
- Oscar Brashear – trumpet
- Curtis Amy – tenor saxophone
- Bob McChesney – trombone
- Jeff Mironov – electric guitar
- Dan Higgins, Lisa Edelstein – flute
- Joseph Stone – oboe, English horn
- Jimmy Webb – piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ
Notes
[edit]- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Musical Maps". Retrieved 2021-05-05.