Chuck Mangione - Together - Live - 1971 - with the Rochester Philharmonic (full album) 

I wish someone would upload the entire LP of the Friends and Love concert... The recently produced CD of it was disappointing :(

Per Wikipedia "Chuck Mangione was among hundreds [if not thousands, if you check out the old-school smaller labels of musician materials that Universal had been snapping up] of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire." Universal has taken years to let folks know just how devastating a loss this has been, trying to "quietly" go around and find the next closest thing to master tapes, etc, etc, etc... with very limited success. Obviously. If the master tapes and original recordings were destroyed from the more popular artists of the day that Universal had in storage, then most of the remaining 40, 50, 60 and 70 year old+ non-master/original recording singles & album materials from these artists are no longer in the best condition, if available anywhere else, as it is. And certainly not of "Master-tape" quality. An absolutely tragic loss.

We owe it to Gerry, and to those who loved him. That applause break at the end of "Legacy" is one of my all time favorite, the way it rolls out so warmly. You can feel the love.

@@SynergyCeleste There’s a CD of it? I’ve been looking for that for years.

@@PJBubbles yes it came from them... maybe you can track it down.

sad ending to his life. I always thought Chuck and brother would record a tribute to Gerry

right on Mike, I feel the same

The nice thing about having this on 8-track is that it never ends!

agree 100%... my Rochester 'homeboys' Man, where has 50 years gone?

absolutely beautiful singing by Don and Ester ~ I was just home from Vietnam when this was being performed, awesome!

yeah, brother, from that day; all the way out~

I've seen dozens of copies of this album at thrift stores and garage sales around the Rochester, NY area over the years. I actually have 3 copies in my collection. Firewatchers is the first song I remember ever hearing as a child. My mom would play this, Herb & Hugh's "Main Event Live", and Herbie Hancocks "Headhunters"/"Sextant" literally back to back.

Did you by chance make any recordings of the concerts you saw? I am a former student of Gerry’s and would love to hear more recordings of him. Thanks

@@parisax your best shot right now is RU-vid when he played with Chuck Mangione. Look for the album Chuck Mangione Quartet here.

Thanks, I have all the commercially available recorded material as well as some of the bootlegs that are now on RU-vid. But I’m always looking for new sources.

Would give anything for a copy of the original broadcast. Does anybody know if it is available anywhere?

My father found out about Chuck while we lived in North Tonawanda in the late 60s and early 70s. We had this Together double album, Chase the Clouds Away, The Land of Make Believe, and Feels So Good. Later on I borrowed The Children of Sanchez from the library. It's incredible that Chuck had his songs slightly rearranged for marching bands - but on second thought they are so powerful, they are natural for "build ... build ... build ... explode!" Also, I am 56, and saw Chuck "in the round at Melody Fair" in Tonawanda.

@@RussKC I saw CM at Melody Fair as well, with my family. I can't remember when, maybe 1974 or so.

Here is Legacy on its own. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uFn3xEz3AH0.html

The record was pressed using a mix which was too loud and created clipping/distortion. I made sure to transfer it to wav/mp3 at a level which did not add distortion. I can see the clipping in the original pressing in Audacity (which is the program I used to do the transfer from vinyl).

@@RussKC isn't that frustrating? We're now starting to have digital tools to 'clean up' such issues, sort of, but I hesitate to use them because they are imparting sonic information that, even if 'sounds good', is not of the actual performance. It's important to not add anything that isn't of the actual analog performance. Though it is tempting, and I occasionally remaster but just for personal use, never releasing into the wild. Anyway Russ thank you so much for this!