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Everything
Is Everthing's
original
recording of Witchi Tai To
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Everything is Everything:
FEATURING CHRIS HILLS
Vanguard VSD 6512 [LP]; VSCD 708 (Japan) [CD]
Rec. 1968, Apostolic
Studios, New York
Jim Pepper,
tenor saxophone, flute, voice on Witchi Tai To; Chris Hills,
guitar, electric bass, drums, voice; Chip Baker, guitar, voice; Lee Reinoehl,
organ, trumpet; John Waller, Jim Zitro, drums
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Argentine cover |
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"Everything is Everything"
45 sleeves
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German cover |
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Witchi Tai To
by
Everything Is Everything
can be found on:
"Hard To Find 45s on CD, Volume 6
More Sixties Classics" (11512)
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Liner Notes |
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"Everything is
Everything is credited with having the only hit to feature an
authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop
charts. The Band began as Free Spirits and consisted of
guitarist Larry Coryell, saxophonist
Jim Pepper,
and drummer
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Chris Hills. Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry encouraged
Pepper to express his Native American heritage in his music, so he brought
one of his grandfather's peyote chants to Hills and Coryell, who worked
out the arrangement and English translation. Danny Weiss, and
independent producer for Vanguard Records, took the group into the
studio but Coryell left the band before the ensemble could be
captured on tape. Hills ended up doing all the tracks himself
with exception of Jim Pepper's saxes and the organ (played by Lee Reinoehl). The song, "Witchi Tai
To", became a cult favorite and leftfield hit, reaching #69 on the
Billboard Charts in 1969. |
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Everything Is Everything - YouTube video
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