Someday We'll All Be Free Donny Hathaway June 18, 1973 First release Someday We'll All Be Free Al Belletto 1973 Someday We'll All Be Free United States Navy Port Authority Soul Band 1974 Unverified Someday We'll All Be Free Sergio Mendes February 1975 Someday We'll All Be Free Average White Band & Ben E. King June 30, 1977 Someday We'll All Be Free Cassietta George 1977 Someday We'll All Be Free Wilton Felder 1980 Someday We'll All Be Free Diane Schuur 1985 Someday We'll All Be Free Bobby Womack 1985 Someday We'll All Be Free / Save the Children Regina Belle August 1989 Medley Someday We'll All Be Free James Ingram 1989 Someday We'll All Be Free B.E.F. featuring Chaka Khan 1991 Someday We'll All Be Free Aretha Franklin 1992 Someday We'll All Be Free Tee Green 1992 Someday We'll All Be Free Puff Johnson 1995 Someday We'll All Be Free Tom Browne April 1999 Someday We'll All Be Free Alicia Keys December 4, 2001 Someday We'll All Be Free Take 6 featuring Lalah Hathaway May 21, 2002 A cappella Someday We'll All Be Free Teena Marie November 12, 2002 Released more than 10 years after its recording Someday We'll All Be Free Madeline Eastman 2003 Someday We'll All Be Free Raymond Myles 2003 Someday We'll All Be Free Keb' Mo' September 21, 2004 Someday We'll All Be Free Deniece Williams April 24, 2007 Someday We'll All Be Free Keiko Lee October 24, 2007 Someday We'll All Be Free George Benson August 25, 2009 Some Day We'll All Be Free Nic Jeffries featuring John Pennings 2011 Someday We'll All Be Free Szymon Makohin October 5, 2012 Someday We'll All Be Free Union of Sound December 16, 2012 Someday We'll All Be Free Jacqui Dankworth 2013 Someday We'll All Be Free Gregory Porter November 7, 2014 Someday We'll All Be Free Soul Stew 2016 Someday We'll All Be Free Tutu Puoane - Brussels Jazz Orchestra February 8, 2018 Someday We'll All Be Free Fabrizio Bosso Spiritual Trio feat. Mario Biondi December 2019 Someday We'll All Be Free Victor Solomon & John Legend May 25, 2021 Version from TV talent show Someday We'll All Be Free Dara Tucker 2021
"Someday We'll All Be Free" is a 1973 song by Donny Hathaway from the album Extension of a Man. The song was released as the flipside to the single "Love, Love, Love." Though the song was only released as an uncharted A-side, it is considered an R&B standard, having been covered by many artists over the years. The lyric was written by Edward Howard, for and about the mental pain that Hathaway, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when the song was written, was experiencing at the time. Edward Howard said:
Years later, the song began to be interpreted as being written about black rights, primarily due to Spike Lee featuring Aretha Franklin's 1992 version at the end of his biographical film Malcolm X. However, as Howard said:
Donny Hathaway himself particularly loved the song and as Eulalah Hathaway stated:
Although the song did not chart, the B-side of the single, "Love, Love Love," peaked at #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #16 on the R&B charts[1] The song was featured in the seventh-season finale of The Walking Dead, which aired on April 2, 2017. Personnel[edit]
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In popular culture[edit]Hathaway's version was featured in an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, in the seventh-season finale "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life", as the character Sasha ingests a cyanide pill.[2] Hathaway's version was also featured in Showtime's The Chi, in the second-season finale "The Scorpion and the Frog" (episode #10) as the closing music. References[edit]
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