Ramsey Lewis – Mother Nature's Son

This record isn’t your usual Beatles exploitation deal, this is sincerely a wonderful and intriguing collection of covers marrying Beatles songs to soul-jazz, funk, orchestra and electronics. Rather than swamping the recording the orchestration holds back and add interesting fills, the times it does come upfront it isn't for too long.

the legend of ramsey
amazing lp maybe his best !

Mother Nature’s Son was released by Cadet Records in 1968. The album was produced by Charles Stepney and consists of ten instrumental songs which were originally recorded by The Beatles, on their White Album. The album cover was designed by Jerry Griffith. The Lp was recorded at Ter Mar Studio, Chicago, in December, 1968, only a short time after the 22 November 1968 release of The Beatles’ album. It was recorded live with of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Lewis on piano. Offering a potential clue as to why Lewis had recorded an album of Beatles songs, producer and arranger Charles Stepney expressed his iration for the sounds achieved by Beatles’ producer George Martin in a 1970 interview with Down Beat. Ramsey Lewis himself said in Mojo magazine, “I wasn’t a Beatles fan. I had recorded ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘And I Love Her’ before, but I didn’t really get them. But my producer Charles Stepney told me to think about doing a Beatles covers album. I didn’t think that they had enough songs to do an entire album but he gave me a copy of the White Album and told me to listen. I did, but couldn’t see how I could do anything with it. He was like ‘You didn’t really listen.’ So he arranged a few songs for me and then it was, I get it now.” In the Down Beat interview Stepney said that he produced the “electronic texture” effect on the album using the Moog synthesizer. The following year the Beatles themselves used the Moog synthesizer extensively in the recording of Abbey Road.

hey Afrobrazilero, why do you want to bury him? He may be old, but he's still alive right now :)