Kenny Rankin: In The Name Of Love (Columbia)
This 45 Columbia version differs significantly from the Scat vocal / acoustic guitar led LP cut. One of my favorite Jazz 45’s that recently got crossed off the wants list.
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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?
I found this information very interesting as I have been trying to find records of Joan Tollivers for a friend of mine and how difficult they seem to be to find. Thanks for the history lesson.
It actually exist as an issue. Red Label.
“peaceful†was also covered by Georgie Fame in the UK
yes arnold.. you’re right. i recently saw the red issue the first time.
the strange thing is.. i have like 5-6 different columbia 7″s by kenny (and yvonne) rankin and all were white promos.. so i was beginning to think that his mid sixties songs were only released as radio-promos on columbia.
great jazzy track