Donny Hathaway (album)

Donny Hathaway
Studio album by Donny Hathaway
Released	April 2, 1971
Recorded	1970–71
Studio	Atlantic (New York) Criteria (Miami) Universal (Chicago)
Genre	Soul
Length	44:46
Label	Atco 33-360
Producer	Jerry Wexler Arif Mardin Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway chronology
Everything Is Everything (1970) Donny Hathaway (1971) Live (1972)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(favorable) [2]
The Village Voice	D−[3]

Donny Hathaway is the second studio album by American soul artist Donny Hathaway, released on April 2, 1971, on Atco.

The majority of songs featured on the collection were covers of pop, gospel and soul songs that were released around the same time. The most prominent of the covers were Hathaway's rendition of Leon Russell's "A Song for You" and a gospel-inflected cover of Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Giving Up", written by Van McCoy. This was the second of three solo studio albums that Hathaway released during his lifetime before his suicide in 1979. Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler took over most of the production duties, with Hathaway producing one track, the self-penned "Take a Love Song".