Everything Must Change (Randy Crawford album)

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Everything Must Change
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Studio album by
Released1976
StudioHit Factory, New York
Hollywood Sound Recorders
Genre Jazz
Length38:03
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Stewart Levine
Randy Crawford chronology
Everything Must Change
(1976)
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Everything Must Change is the debut studio album by singer Randy Crawford released in 1976 on the Warner Bros. label. [2]

Contents

Background

It was recorded and mixed at Hollywood Sound Recorders except "I'm Easy" and "I've Never Been To Me", which, along with all horns and strings, were recorded at The Hit Factory, New York City, and engineered by Kevin Herron with assistant engineer Ted Spencer. In addition "Everything Must Change" and "Gonna Give Lovin' A Try" were recorded live at the World Jazz Association's first recorded concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in November 1975.

Track listing

  1. "Everything Must Change" (Benard Ighner) - 4:52
  2. "I Let You Walk Away" (Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody) - 3:20
  3. "I'm Easy" (Keith Carradine) - 3:41
  4. "I Had to See You One More Time" (Norma Helms, Ken Hirsch) - 3:40
  5. "I've Never Been to Me" (Ron Miller, Ken Hirsch) - 3:32
  6. "Don't Let Me Down" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:56
  7. "Something So Right" (Paul Simon) - 4:12
  8. "Soon as I Touched Him" (Norma Helms, Ken Hirsch) - 3:11
  9. "Only Your Love Song Lasts" (Art Munson, Stephen Kalinich) - 4:06
  10. "Gonna Give Lovin' a Try" (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Nathaniel Adderley, Julian Adderley) - 3:24

Personnel

The World Jazz Association All Star Band

Production

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References

  1. Hamilton, Andrew. "Everything Must Change". AllMusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. "Randy Crawford - Everything Must Change". Discogs. Retrieved 20 January 2019.