Best Of 70s Soul: Flying Easy
The Three Degrees Flying Easy by Donny Hathaway is from his last solo album, Extension Of A Man (1973). It was recorded in the hopes that United Airlines might use it for a national advertising campaign, but they did not. Donny Hathaway was probably one of the greatest soul singers/musicians of all-time. His career took off in the early 1970s, but it never led to a big breakthrough, mainly because of his mental problems. His desperate situation led to his suicide by jumping of a balcony in 1979, after being paranoid and delusional during a recording session with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Dutch director David Kleijwegt made a wonderful documentary about him called Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway . Norman Feels was an underground soul sensation in the 1970s and released two classic albums t...