Echoes (Livingston Taylor album)
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Echoes is singer-songwriter
Livingston Taylor
's fifth album, released in 1979. The album is a "greatest hits
" sampler of songs from Taylor's first three albums.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Livingston Taylor
Livingston Taylor
Livingston Taylor is an American singer-songwriter, born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He attended the Westtown School in Pennsylvania...
's fifth album, released in 1979. The album is a "greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
" sampler of songs from Taylor's first three albums.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Livingston Taylor; except where indicated- "Get Out of Bed" – 2:49
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) – 3:37 - "Carolina Day" – 3:08
- "Lady Tomorrow" – 2:41
- "Caroline" – 2:16
- "Lost in the Love of You" – 3:00
- "Loving Be My New Horizon" – 1:45
- "Can't Get Back Home" – 2:25
- "Gentleman" – 3:14
- "Over the RainbowOver the Rainbow"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...
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, E.Y. Harburg) – 2:41 - "If I Needed SomeoneIf I Needed Someone"If I Needed Someone" is a song written by George Harrison. Versions by The Beatles and by The Hollies appeared simultaneously, both being released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1965. The Hollies version appeared on a single. Most of the Hollies previous singles had been big top ten hits...
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) – 2:56 - "Hush a Bye" – 2:38
Personnel
- Livingston Taylor – guitar, keyboards, vocals