Art Garfunkel - Fate For Breakfast (1979) LP - € 10,00

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Fate for Breakfast is the fourth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, released in March 1979 on Columbia Records.

It was his first album to miss the U.S. Billboard Top 40 (charting at 67) and his first album containing no U.S. Top 40 singles. 

Yet the album garnered international success, reaching the top-ten in some European countries. The European release includes "Bright Eyes", which was featured in the film version of the novel Watership Down, and reached the number-one spot in the United Kingdom, becoming the biggest-selling single of 1979 there.

A beautiful collection of songs, highlighted by one masterpiece, "Miss You Nights," the best song in the collection, and worth the purchase for just this one song - beautifully arranged, sung, with lyrics that are subtle and strong - perfect. 

Then you have two legitimate hits, "Bright Eyes," and "Since I Don't Have You," both terrific songs, and other small gems such as the tuneful "And I Know," that fill out an impressive album. 

Garfunkel's vocals here are their zenith, so you have a rich, full voice giving full credit to these songs and arrangements. 

The only complaint, some of the arrangements, particularly on the poor opening number, and even on "And I Know," are overproduced, indicative of the terrible "disco era," when it seemed that you needed to submerge good vocals into overly synthesized instruments. 

Leah Kunkel, for instance, was one of the finest back-up vocalists of her day.

And so is "Fate For Breakfast," despite a few flaws, another winner from Mr. Garfunkel, one of America's finest vocalists - ever! 

David Sanborn covered "And I Know" entitled "Love Will Come Someday" for his 1982 album As We Speak. Also on the album is a cover of Cliff Richard's 1976 hit "Miss You Nights".

Side A
A1.  In A Little While (I’ll Be On My Way) - 3:27
A2.  Since I Don’t Have You - 3:38
A3.  And I Know - 3:41
A4.  Sail On A Rainbow - 3:45
A5.  Miss You Nights - 3:45

Side B
B1.  Finally Found A Reason - 2:38
B2.  Beyond The Tears - 3:51
B3.  Oh How Happy - 2:38
B4.  When Someone Doesn’t Want You - 3:32
B5.  Take Me Away - 4:38

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
• Recorded At – A&R Studios
• Recorded At – The Hit Factory
• Recorded At – The Sound Factory
• Recorded At – Air Studios
• Recorded At – Kendun Recorders
• Recorded At – Dawnbreaker Studios
• Recorded At – Wessex Sound Studios
• Mixed At – Lansdowne Studios
• Mixed At – A&R Studios
• Mixed At – Automated Recording Studio
• Published By – Dennis Earl Music
• Published By – Mother Pearl Music, Inc.
• Published By – Bonnyview Music Corp.
• Published By – Foghorn Music
• Published By – Samadhi Music
• Published By – David Batteau Music
• Published By – Stephen Bishop Music Publishing
• Published By – Island Music
• Published By – April Music Ltd.
• Published By – Watership Productions Ltd.
• Published By – Silver Nightingale Music
• Published By – Chicken Key Music
• Published By – Jobete Music Co., Inc.
• Published By – Jeffrey Staton Music
• Published By – Bone Tone Music
• Published By – Big Brick Music
• Pressed By – CBS, Haarlem – 01-86090

Credits

• Acoustic Guitar – Chris Spedding, Larry Rolando 
• Arranged By [Basic Track Arrangement] – Gene Page 
• Arranged By [Horn Arrangement] – Tom Scott 
• Arranged By [String Arrangement] – Del Newman, Rob Mounsey 
• Backing Vocals – Billy Alessi, Bobby Alessi, Carolyn Dennis, James Gilstrap, Leah Kunkel, Maxine Anderson, Penny Nichols, Stephen Bishop 
• Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Jeffrey Staton, Louie Shelton 
• Bass – Lyle Harper, Dennis Belfield, Les Hurdle, Neil Jason 
• Clavinet – Rob Mounsey 
• Design – John Berg
• Drums – Michael Baird, Roy Morgan, Simon Phillips, Steve Gadd 
• Electric Guitar – Hugh McCracken, Larry Rolando, Lee Ritenour, Louie Shelton, Richie Zito
• Electric Piano – Richard Tee, Rob Mounsey 
• Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Rob Mounsey 
• Engineer – Bob Bullock, Robert Butterworth, Ed Rakowitz, Ed Sprigg, Elliot Scheiner, Joseph Bogan, Jon Smith, Michael Stavrou, Mike Thompson, Tim Friese-Greene
• Engineer [Assistant] – Butch Lynch, David Woole, George Yabarra , Jim Sintetos, Joe Romersa, K. C. Green, Leslie Mona , Marti Robertson, Tom Cummings, Tom Gretl 
• Lute – Roland Harker 
• Oboe – Edwin Roxburgh 
• Percussion – Crusher Bennett, Alan Estes, Ray Cooper, Steve Forman 
• Photography By – Edie Baskin
• Piano [Acoustic] – Larry Knechtel, Rob Mounsey 
• Producer – Louie Shelton 
• Synthesizer – Rob Mounsey 
• Synthesizer [Oberheim] – Rob Mounsey 
• Tenor Saxophone – Michael Brecker, Tom Scott 
• Vocals, Vocals [Harmonies] – Art Garfunkel

Notes
Release: 1979
Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Soft Rock
Label:  CBS Records
Catalog#  86090

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00