Kenny Rankin: In The Name Of Love (Columbia)

This tune is great. DJ Gilles Peterson used to bump it sometimes. It was released on a compilation in the UK called ‘Freedom Time’ on Counterpoint Records. Pretty good comp too.
http://www.counterpointrecords.co.uk/docs/display_album.php?id=1

thanks for posting this one.. this is one of my all-time favourite jazzy singer/songwriter tunes.

“in the name of love” has been written by kenny rankin & estelle levitt ( “all i dream”) and was covered by peggy lee (1964), harry belafonte, joan tolliver, j.j. johnson and others during the sixties. i assume it must have been his biggest success in songwriting before the release of his 1967 debut-album “mind dusters” (mercury) , which contained the single “peaceful” - as covered by helen reddy in 1973.
this, lets say, original version was arranged and produced by robert mersey and must have been “released” around 1966, but could have been recorded 1 or 2 years before.
like of all other 7″s kenny rankin (and his wife yvonne) released on columbia in the mid 60s only promo-copy’s seem to exist.
after releasing a string of teen pop 7″s on decca in the late 50s /early 60s also sung in italian, french and german for the european market he turned more towards a jazzy singer/songwriter style during his short columbia period. around that time he also appeared several times on johnny carson’s “the tonight show”. in 1965 he was a session-guitarist for the recordings of bob dylan’s “bringing it all back home”. hence his cover-version of “tambourine man” on his debut album in 1967?