I Love Everybody

About I Love Everybody

I Love Everybody is a studio album by American jazz vocalist Johnny Hartman, released in 1967 by ABC Records. It was produced by Bob Thiele and features arrangements and conducting by Jack Pleis and Oliver Nelson. Side One consists of six ballads performed by an orchestra, with string arrangements by Pleis. Side Two features a big band, arranged and conducted by Nelson, in a faux-live setting, with audience noise added afterwards to the studio recordings. According to Hartman biographer Gregg Akkerman, ABC wasn't sure what to name the album, listing it at one point as Soul in the Night and even assigning it a catalog number of 574. ABC eventually gave that title to another artist. "The label finally came up with the title I Love Everybody, but the nonexistent ABC-574 has misled many Hartman fans to believe an entire unreleased album may exist. It does not."I Love Everybody was the last of five Hartman albums produced by Bob Thiele for ABC and its jazz subsidiary Impulse!. When the album failed commercially upon its release in 1967, Hartman was let go by the company. He would not record again until 1972. In 2005, Gambit Records reissued all of the material from the album on a compact disc entitled Johnny Hartman and Oliver Nelson: I Love Everybody, but with the original two sides of the LP in reverse order, along with additional material from 1958. Impulse! released Side Two of I Love Everybody on the 1995 CD Unforgettable, which also included the entirety of Unforgettable Songs by Johnny Hartman (1966), his other LP for ABC more »