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The Word Is Out On Donny Hathaway

Jerry Wexler, Fusion (advertisement), 25 June 1971

A FEW WEEKS ago, the superb composer-singer Carole King picked up eight copies of Donny's first LP (Everything Is Everything, produced by himself) and distributed them to her heaviest pals and gurus — such as Lou Adler and James Taylor — with the exhortation to dig.

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