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Released on Candid, also Port of Call (take 2) (Cecil Taylor), All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother (Charles Mingus) and What Love? (Charles Mingus)
Recorded at Fine Recording Studios, also A Change of Pace (Quincy Jones), Tickle Toe (Quincy Jones) and The Gypsy (Quincy Jones)
Produced by Nat Hentoff, also All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother (Charles Mingus), What Love? (Charles Mingus) and Cindy’s Main Mood (take 1) (Cecil Taylor)
Engineered by George Piros, also Country Boy, My Daily Wish and Otis in the Dark
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
33 other songs on fono were recorded at Fine Recording Studios, by Quincy Jones and György Sebök and others
George Piros engineered 5 of Otis Spann’s top 10 songs
Nat Hentoff produced 5 of Otis Spann’s top 10 songs
Nat Hentoff produced 32 songs on fono
Credits
All 8 credits
- Written by
- Otis Spann
- Produced by
- Nat Hentoff
- Performed by
- Otis Spann and Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Engineered by
- George Piros
- Part of
- Otis Spann Is the Blues
- Recorded at
- Fine Recording Studios
- Released on
- Candid
- Written by
- Otis Spann
- Produced by
- Nat Hentoff
- Performed by
- Otis Spann and Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- Engineered by
- George Piros
- Part of
- Otis Spann Is the Blues
- Recorded at
- Fine Recording Studios
- Released on
- Candid
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same producer: Nat Hentoff
Same engineer: George Piros
Same label: Candid
Same studio: Fine Recording Studios
Same producer: Nat Hentoff
Same engineer: George Piros
Same studio: Fine Recording Studios
Same producer: Nat Hentoff
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz The Hard Way was performed by Otis Spann
The Hard Way was performed by Otis Spann
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz The Hard Way was performed by Robert Lockwood, Jr.
The Hard Way was performed by Robert Lockwood, Jr.
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz The Hard Way was produced by Nat Hentoff
The Hard Way was produced by Nat Hentoff
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz The Hard Way was written by Otis Spann
5MusicBrainz The Hard Way is part of the release Otis Spann Is the Blues
The Hard Way is part of the release Otis Spann Is the Blues
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz The Hard Way was recorded at Fine Recording Studios
The Hard Way was recorded at Fine Recording Studios
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz Candid is the label of the song The Hard Way
Candid is the label of the song The Hard Way
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
8MusicBrainz The Hard Way was engineered by George Piros
The Hard Way was engineered by George Piros
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
9MusicBrainz The Hard Way was released on 1961-01