Songs from a Parent to a Child
1997 studio album by Art Garfunkel
Songs from a Parent to a Child | ||||
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Studio album by Art Garfunkel | ||||
Released | June 3, 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 36:01 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Art Garfunkel | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
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
- "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
- 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
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- t
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- Angel Clare
- Breakaway
- Watermark
- Fate for Breakfast
- Scissors Cut
- The Animals' Christmas
- Lefty
- Songs from a Parent to a Child
- Everything Waits to Be Noticed
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Across America
- The Art Garfunkel Album
- Garfunkel
- Up 'til Now
- Simply the Best
- "All I Know"
- "I Shall Sing"
- "Second Avenue"
- "I Only Have Eyes for You"
- "Break Away"
- "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)"
- "(What A) Wonderful World"
- "Since I Don't Have You"
- "Bright Eyes"
- "A Heart in New York"
- "So Much in Love"
- "When a Man Loves a Woman"
- "Crying in the Rain"
- Category