Many Worlds Are Born Tonight (1998) is the tenth album by American singer-songwriter Happy Rhodes

Happy Rhodes

Happy Rhodes is an American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and electronic musician with a four-octave vocal range. She has released 11 albums since 1986.- Family :...

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Overview

Rhodes' first album on a larger independent label (Samson Music), leading to the All-Music Guide reviewer mistakenly describing this as her debut album.

"Roy (Back From The Offworld)" is the only Happy Rhodes track to have ever charted thus far (August 2007) - peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart. 1

Track listing

All music, lyrics, voices, arrangements, sequencing, programming, sampling - Happy Rhodes (unless otherwise noted in album credits)

1. "100 Years" - 5:25
2. "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight" - 4:52
3. "The Chariot" - 5:22
4. "Ra Is A Busy God" - 6:21
5. "If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride" - 5:02
6. "Roy (Back From The Offworld)" - 5:33
7. "Tragic" - 6:09
8. "Proof" - 4:22
9. "Looking Over Cliffs" - 4:57
10. "Winter" - 3:58
11. "Serenading Genius" - 6:37
12. "How It Should Be" - 4:19 (German CD only)

• Produced by Happy Rhodes.

• Engineered by Happy Rhodes with additional tracking by Kevin Bartlett at Aural Gratification
• All vocals engineered by Kevin Bartlett

Personnel

• Happy Rhodes:
  • Nylon String Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Hand Percussion
• Kevin Bartlett:
  • Harmonic, Shadow and Original E-bow, Bass, Bass Loops, Drippy Bass, Hand Percussion, Jug, Vase, Linguini Grill, Log Drums, Bongos, Mini Djembe and Chime
• Jerry Marotta
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  • Drums, Barney Rubble Drums, Nails of Goat and "Oh"
• Carl Adami:
  • Bass and BassLoopie Things
• Rob Taylor:
  • Violin
• Kelly Bird:
  • Additional Voices on "Proof"
• Mitch Elrod:
  • Additional Voices on "Proof"

Samples

• • Peter Siedlaczeks' Classical Choir
  • David Torn's Tonal Textures #22
  • Gota Yashiki's Groove Activator
  • Project Lo's Dabblings In Darkness, "Three Rivers Of Lor"
  • David Torn's Tonal Textures #6,
  • Rich Goodhart's Never Give A Sword To A Man Who Can't Dance, "Ritual Dreaming" Copyright 1995
  • SSS Laidback Drumtools
  • Big Fish Audio's Loopalicious and Drum Looks 3
  • Trevor Rabin's Can't Look Away "Something To Hold On To" Copyright 1989
  • "Warrior Songs" - Purchased on the streets of N.Y.C from an American Indian...
  • Rarefaction's A Poke In The Ear With A Sharp Stick ...Voice.
  • David Torn's Tonal Textures, #'s 20, 23 and 27