Homeless Brother

Studio album by Don McLean

Released

October 1974

Recorded

Regent Sound Studios, New York City

Don McLean chronology

Playin' Favorites
(1973)

Homeless Brother
1974)

Solo
(1976)

Homeless Brother is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1974. It was reissued by BGO Records in 1996.

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Don McLean except where indicated.

Side One

"Winter Has Me in Its Grip"
"La La Love You"
"Homeless Brother"
"Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" (George Harrison)
"The Legend of Andrew McCrew"

Side Two

"Wonderful Baby"
"You Have Lived"
"Great Big Man"
"Tangled (Like a Spider in Her Hair)"
"Crying in the Chapel" (Artie Glenn)
"Did You Know"

Personnel

Don McLean: vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
Richard Tee: keyboards
Hugh McCracken: guitars
David Spinozza: guitars
Willie Weeks: bass guitar
The Persuasions: backing vocals
Andrew Smith: drums
David Carey: percussion
Arthur Jenkins, Jr.: keyboards
Ralph MacDonald: percussion
Yusef Lateef: flute
Pete Seeger: backing vocals
Willis Jackson: tenor saxophone
George Duvivier: bass
Kenny Vance: backing vocals
Cissy Houston: backing vocals
Renelle Stafford: backing vocals
Ned Albright: backing vocals
Steven Soles: backing vocals
Deidre Tuck: backing vocals
Linda November: backing vocals
Joel Dorn: backing vocals
Helene Miles: backing vocals
Arlene Martell: backing vocals
Marlene VerPlanck: backing vocals
Gerry Teifer: whistling
Norma Holes: backing vocals
Strings: Al 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
Horns: Joe Wilder, Garnett Brown, Wally King, James Buffington, Jonathan Dorn, Billy Slapin, Seldon Powell, George Barrow, Charles Williams, Charles Fowlkes, Dany Moore, Peter Gordon, Ray Alonge, George Marge, Brooks Tillotson

Don McLean
Studio albums	Tapestry American Pie Don McLean Playin' Favorites Homeless Brother Prime Time Chain Lightning Believers Love Tracks For the Memories Vols I & II And I Love You So Headroom Christmas The River of Love Christmas Dreams Sings Marty Robbins You've Got to Share Songs for Children The Western Album Rearview Mirror: An American Musical Journey Addicted to Black
Live albums	Solo Dominion Starry, Starry Night
Compilation albums	The Very Best of Don McLean Favorites and Rarities Legendary Songs of Don McLean Christmastime!
Singles	"Castles in the Air" "American Pie" "Vincent" "Wonderful Baby" "Crying" "Since I Don't Have You" "He's Got You" "You Can't Blame the Train"
Related articles	Discography "The Saga Begins"

Yusef Lateef
Discography
As leader	Jazz for the Thinker (1957) Jazz Mood (1957) Before Dawn (1957) Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957) Prayer to the East (1957) The Sounds of Yusef (1957) Other Sounds (1957) Lateef at Cranbrook (1958) The Dreamer (1959) The Fabric of Jazz (1959) Cry! – Tender (1959) The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960) The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960) Lost in Sound (1961) Eastern Sounds (1961) Into Something (1961) Jazz 'Round the World (1963) Live at Pep's (1964) 1984 (1965) Psychicemotus (1965) A Flat, G Flat and C (1966) The Golden Flute (1966) The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967) The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968) Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969) The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969) Suite 16 (1970) The Gentle Giant (1971) Hush 'N' Thunder (1972) Part of the Search (1973) 10 Years Hence (1974) The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976) Autophysiopsychic (1977) In a Temple Garden (1979) In Nigeria (1983) Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)
As co-leader	Stable Mates (1957)
As sideman	The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s) Byrd Jazz (1955) Drums of Passion (1959) Breezing (1960) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (1960) Color Changes (1960) 1st Bassman (1960) Images of Curtis Fuller (1960) Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960) My Kinda Swing (1960) Soulnik (1960) That's Right! (1960) Uhuru Afrika (1960) Grantstand (1961) Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (1960) The African Beat (1962) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962) Cannonball in Europe! (1962) Drum Suite (1962) Autumn Leaves (1963) Nippon Soul (1963) Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (1964) Invitation to Openness (1971) Homeless Brother (1974) Double Time (1977) Something You Got (1977)

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