The Great Pretender

Tracklist

• 1
  The Great Pretender
  16:50
• 2
  It’s Howdy Doody Time
  2:07
• 3
  When the Doom (Moon) Comes Over the Mountain
  3:38
• 4
  Rios Negroes
  7:15
• 5
  Rose Drop
  7:25
• 6
  Oh, How the Ghost Sings
  5:50

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Release credits

• David Peaston
  vocal [1]
• Donald Smith
  keyboard [2-6]
• Fontella Bass
  vocal [1]
• Fred Williams
  bass [2-6]
• Hamiet Bluiett
  baritone saxophone [1]
• Lester Bowie
  arranger [3], trumpet
• Manfred Eicher
  producer [2-6]
• Martin Wieland
  engineer [2-6]
• Phillip Wilson
  membranophone

Issues

• 

  T
  The Great Pretender

  12" Vinyl
  1981
• 

  T
  The Great Pretender

  CD
  24 October 2008
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  T
  The Great Pretender

  Digital Media
  28 October 2008
• T
  The Great Pretender

  CD