Homeless Brother
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{{Infobox album
| name = Homeless Brother
| type = Album
| artist = Don McLean
| cover = Mclean_homeless_brother.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1974|10}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Regent Sound Studios, New York City; Clack Studios
| genre = {{hlist|Folk|folk rock}}
| length = 38:31
| label = United Artists
| producer = Joel Dorn
| prev_title = Playin' Favorites
| prev_year = 1973
| next_title = Solo
| next_year = 1976
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Homeless Brother
| type = studio
| single1 = Wonderful Baby
| single1date = June 1975
}}
}}
Homeless Brother is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1974. It was reissued by BGO Records in 1996.
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r44513|pure_url=yes}} link]
|rev2 = Rolling Stone
|rev2score = (positive) [https://web.archive.org/web/20080506234518/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/donmclean/albums/album/188016/review/5942975/homeless_brother link]
}}
Track listing
All tracks composed by Don McLean except where indicated.
Side One
- "Winter Has Me in Its Grip" 3:19
- "La La Love You" 3:46
- "Homeless Brother" 4:22
- "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" (George Harrison) 1:50
- "The Legend of Andrew McCrew" 6:06
Side Two
- "Wonderful Baby" 2:04
- "You Have Lived" 3:42
- "Great Big Man" 3:16
- "Tangled (Like a Spider in Her Hair)" 3:39
- "Crying in the Chapel" (Artie Glenn) 2:20
- "Did You Know" 4:07
Chart positions
| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1974) !Peak |
| Australian (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=187}}
|align="center"|65 |
| Billboard 200
|align="center"|120{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} |
Personnel
- Don McLean - vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
- Richard Tee, Arthur Jenkins, Jr. - keyboards
- Hugh McCracken, David Spinozza - guitar
- Willie Weeks, George Duvivier - bass guitar
- Andrew Smith - drums
- Ralph MacDonald, David Carey - percussion
- Willis Jackson - tenor saxophone
- Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
- Yusef Lateef - flute
- Gerry Teifer - whistling
- William Eaton - arrangements, conductor
- Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Emanuel Vardi, Sanford Allen, Joseph Malignaggi, Avram Weiss, Diana Halprin, Charles Libove, Harry Cykman, Emanuel Green, Harry Lookofsky, Matthew Raimondi, Kermit Moore, Charles McCracken, Max Ellen, Max Pollikoff, Gene Orloff, David Nadien, Kathryn Kienke, Julius Schachter, Harold Kohon, Julius Held, Guy Lumia - strings
- Joe Wilder, Garnett Brown, Wally King, James Buffington, Jonathan Dorn, Billy Slapin, Seldon Powell, George Barrow, Charles Williams, Dany Moore, Peter Gordon, Ray Alonge, George Marge, Brooks Tillotson - horns
- Kenny Vance, The Persuasions, Pete Seeger, Cissy Houston, Renelle Stafford, Ned Albright, Steven Soles, Deidre Tuck, Linda November, Joel Dorn, Helene Miles, Arlene Martell, Marlene VerPlanck, Norma Holes - backing vocals
;Technical
- Bob Liftin - recording and remixing engineer
- Joe Ferla - additional recording
- Marcote - cover painting
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Don McLean}}{{Yusef Lateef}}
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Category:Albums produced by Joel Dorn
Category:United Artists Records albums
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