Help Me Make It Through the Night (Hank Crawford album)

(Redirected from Help Me Make it Through the Night (Hank Crawford album)) 1972 studio album by Hank Crawford

Help Me Make It Through the Night

Released

1972

Recorded

August 1971 and January 1972

Studio

Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Length

33:02

Kudu
KU-06

It's a Funky Thing to Do
(1971)

Help Me Make It Through the Night
(1972)

We Got a Good Thing Going
(1972)

Help Me Make It Through the Night is the twelfth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his first released on the Kudu label in 1972.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "This 1972 set by Crawford is an exemplary portrait of his movin' and groovin' style".

Hank Crawford - alto saxophone
Al DeRisi, Snooky Young - trumpet (track 7)
Wayne Andre - trombone (track 7)
Grover Washington, Jr. - tenor saxophone (track 7)
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone (track 7)
Richard Tee - piano, electric piano, organ
Cornell Dupree (tracks 1-6 & 8), Eric Gale (track 7) - electric guitar
Ron Carter - bass, electric bass
Phil Kraus - vibraphone (tracks 1, 4 & 5)
Idris Muhammad (track 7), Bernard Purdie (tracks 1-6 & 8) - drums
Airto Moreira - percussion (track 7)
Bernard Eichen, Felix Giglio, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Gene Orloff, Max Polikoff, Rlliot Rosoff - violin (tracks 1-6 & 8)
Alfred Brown, Theodore Israel, Emanuel Vardi - viola (tracks 1-6 & 8)
Charles McCracken, George Ricci - cello (tracks 1-6 & 8)
Pee Wee Ellis (track 7), Don Sebesky (tracks 1-6 & 8) - arranger, conductor

Payne, D. Kudu Records discography accessed October 6, 2015
^ Jurek, Thom. Help Me Make It Through the Night – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2015.

v t e Hank Crawford
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums	More Soul (1960) The Soul Clinic (1960 & 1961) From the Heart (1961 & 1962) Soul of the Ballad (1963) True Blue (1963 & 1964) Dig These Blues (1964 & 1965) After Hours (1965 & 1966) Mr. Blues (1965 & 1966) Double Cross (1965 & 1967) Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul (1969) It's a Funky Thing to Do (1970) Help Me Make It Through the Night (1971 & 1972) We Got a Good Thing Going (1972) Wildflower (1973) Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing (1974) I Hear a Symphony (1975) Hank Crawford's Back (1976) Tico Rico (1977) Midnight Ramble (1982) Soul Survivors (with Jimmy McGriff, 1986) Mr. Chips (1986) Steppin' Up (with Jimmy McGriff, 1987) Night Beat (1988) On the Blue Side (with Jimmy McGriff, 1989) Groove Master (1990) Tight (1996) Road Tested (with Jimmy McGriff, 1997) After Dark (1998) Crunch Time (with Jimmy McGriff, 1998) The World of Hank Crawford (2000)
Related articles	Ray Charles

v t e Pepper Adams
Albums as leader	Baritones and French Horns/Dakar (1957) Critics' Choice (1957) Pepper Adams Quintet (1957) The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams (1957) The Pepper-Knepper Quintet (1958) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Mean What You Say (1966) Encounter! (1968) Ephemera (1973) Julian (1975) Twelfth & Pingree (1975) Baritone Madness (1977) Reflectory (1978) Be-Bop? The Master (1980) Urban Dreams (1981) California Cookin' (1983) Conjuration: Fat Tuesday's Session (1983) Generations (1985) The Adams Effect (1985)
With Donald Byrd	10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (1958) Off to the Races (1959) Byrd in Hand (1959) At the Half Note Cafe (1960) Motor City Scene (1960) Out of This World (1961) Chant (1961) The Cat Walk (1961) Royal Flush (1961) The Creeper (1967)

Albums as leader