Everything Is Everything

CTL-E-5856 · Work · album · 1970

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Combined Graph record U-07109 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5856.

Everything Is Everything is the debut studio album by American soul singer, songwriter, and pianist Donny Hathaway, released on July 1, 1970, on Atco Records, the Atlantic Records subsidiary. Hathaway arrived at the sessions with a Chicago grounding: after leaving Howard University in 1967 he moved to Chicago, his birthplace, and worked for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records as a songwriter, producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and session player before signing with Atlantic in 1969. Hathaway produced the album with drummer Ric Powell, and he wrote or co-wrote five of its nine songs. Its best-known track, "The Ghetto," was co-written with Leroy Hutson, as was the socially conscious "Tryin' Times." The remaining selections mix covers — Ray Charles's "I Believe to My Soul" and Nina Simone's "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" — with the spiritual "Thank You Master (For My Soul)" and the love song "Je Vous Aime (I Love You)." On release the album peaked at No. 73 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and No. 33 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart, and Rhino's label history treats it as the solo debut of an artist who had begun as a child gospel singer under the name Donny Pitts.

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Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Everything Is Everything entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5856 free. Token hits on 'everything' in unrelated records were hand-read as accidents. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan sample, readiness rank 2133 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #185). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — a Work (album) by Donny Hathaway (CTL-E-0036, homed), squarely inside the graph's Black music scope. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): the album's nine tracks and its Billboard peaks — No. 73 on the Top 200 Albums chart and No. 33 on the R&B Albums chart on its July 1970 release — are as reported by Wikipedia's album article drawing on Billboard chart records (accessed 2026-10-16); no other statistic is asserted. MEDIA: photo HELD (album cover art is third-party copyrighted label art; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5856-everything-is-everything.svg); video HELD (no CTL Short or other video for this album verified with a cataloged URL in this pass); audio HELD (the album's recordings are third-party copyrighted; no cleared audio in this pass). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Work records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No CTL Short or other video for this subject was verified with a cataloged URL in this pass.) | audio = HELD (The album's recordings are third-party copyrighted (Atco/Atlantic); no cleared audio in this pass.)

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  Everything Is Everything is Donny Hathaway's debut album (Atco, July 1, 1970), produced by Hathaway with Ric Powell, with Hathaway writing or co-writing five of nine tracks.

Sources

• Rhino (Atlantic Records label history), "Mono Mondays: Donny Hathaway, Everything Is Everything" (July 7, 2014) — supports the July 1, 1970 Atco release date, debut status, Chicago/Curtom background, and track writing credits — https://www.rhino.com/article/mono-mondays-donny-hathaway-everything-is-everything (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Everything Is Everything (Donny Hathaway album)" (accessed 2026-10-16) — supports the nine-track count, Hathaway/Powell production, five Hathaway writing credits, and the Billboard peaks of No. 73 (Top 200) and No. 33 (R&B) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Everything_(Donny_Hathaway_album) (build store)

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