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Windmills of My Mind
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by Grady Tate
Sales Rank: 223562
Price:$18.98
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Album Details
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1. The Windmills of Your Mind Theme from Thomas Crown Affair - Grady Tate, Bergman, Alan
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2. And I Love Her - Grady Tate, Lennon, John
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3. Sack Full of Dreams - Grady Tate, McFarland, Gary
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4. Would You Believe - Grady Tate, Hebb
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5. Work Song - Grady Tate, Adderly
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6. A Little at a Time - Grady Tate, Clores, Rob
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7. T.N.T. - Grady Tate, Dorough, Bob
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8. Don't Fence Me In - Grady Tate, Fletcher, Robert H.
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9. All Around the World - Grady Tate, Turner
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Grady Tate is renowned as a session drummer extraordinaire, having worked with just about everybody in the late '50s/early '60s, yet he has also displayed a warm, flexible, rhythmically agile baritone voice, which is less well-known than his drumming. Gary McFarland thought enough of Tate's singing voice to record a number of vocal albums for his short-lived Skye label in the mid 60s. One of the impressive vocal albums he did was Windmills of My Mind, a jazz/R&B release in 1968. This album underscores the fact that Tate was never a radical or abstract type of singer; the smooth, elegant crooner heard on 'And I Love Her', 'The Windmills Of Your Mind' and 'A Little At A Time' has a lot more in common with Johnny Hartman, Arthur Prysock and even Johnny Mathis than hardcore beboppers like Jon Hendricks, Babs Gonzales and Eddie Jefferson. Although Tate's backing includes pianist Herbie Hancock and bassist Bob Cranshaw, much of Windmills isn't jazz -- 'Don't Fence Me In' and 'Would You Believe', in fact, are pure 1960s soul music. El. 2005.
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Listener Reviews & Comments
Grady Tate is probably better known as a self-taught session jazz drummer appearing in the album credits and liner notes of many recordings during the 60's. During that time it was not uncommon for record companies to dabble with placing an artist in front of a microphone to interpret popular songs of the day. Witness gawd-awful records by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, the guy from Mission Impossible, the little kid from the Rifleman, Leorne Greene, etc. You cannot lump the talents of Grady Tate into such a mix. His hip rendition of "And I Love Her" is only a glimpse of range and depth to be found on the rest of the record. I have all of Grady Tate's records on Skye & Buddah. Windmills of my Mind, is as good a place as any to begin. And, if you can find the follow up album, "Feeling Life" - pick it up too!
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Windmills of My Mind
by Grady Tate
Price:$18.98
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