Garden of Love Light

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Garden of Love Light
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Studio album by
ReleasedLate 1976
RecordedAugust 21 – September 6, 1976
Studio Atlantic Studios (New York, NY)
Genre Soul, R&B, jazz fusion
Length43:05
Label Atlantic
Producer Tom Dowd
Narada Michael Walden chronology
Garden of Love Light
(1976)
I Cry, I Smile
(1977)

Garden of Love Light is the debut solo album from R&B-soul-dance-pop songwriter/producer Narada Michael Walden. It featured nine tracks, seven which Walden wrote alone. It was produced by Tom Dowd. The single "Delightful" rose to number 81 on the R&B charts. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "White Night" (Walden, Raymond Gomez) - 4:57
  2. "Garden of Love Light" - 4:55
  3. "Delightful" - 4:51
  4. "First Love" - 5:52
  5. "Meditation" (lyrics from Sri Chinmoy) - 1:38
  6. "The Sun is Dancing" - 9:29 (dedicated to Mahavishnu John McLaughlin)
  7. "You Got the Soul" - 3:22
  8. "Saint and the Rascal" - 4:33
  9. "You Are Love" (Walden, Cynthia Anderson) - 3:12

Personnel

Production

Reference List

  1. Weather Report - Page 68 "His first album, Garden of Love Light, was released in 1976 and included the track ”Delightful”. The lone single released from the album, it charted at #81 on the R&B charts in the spring of 1977"

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