Everything Is Everything

 

 

Wichi Tai To

 
 

Everything Is Everthing's original recording of Witchi Tai To
 


 

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

 


Argentine cover

"Everything is Everything"
  45 sleeves

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Picture of single

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Picture of single 2


  German cover
   

Witchi Tai To by Everything Is Everything can be found on:
"Hard To Find 45s on CD, Volume 6
More Sixties Classics" (11512)

 
Liner Notes  
"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  
  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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