Tracklist

1	Long Before Our Mothers Cried	14:25
2	A Tribute To A Holiday (Billie)	5:51
3	Sound Of Silents	8:41
4	Five For Trane	6:26
5	Wayneish	6:37

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Minot Sound
• Manufactured By – SHOUT! Productions Co., Ltd.
• Distributed By – SHOUT! Productions Co., Ltd.
• Remastered At – Turtle Tone Studios
• Published By – SoFor Music Co.

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Sonny Fortune
• Artwork [Reissue] – Takashi Kishino
• Bass – Wayne Dockery
• Bass Drum, Timbales – Mario Muñoz
• Congas, Triangle, Tambourine – Angel Allende
• Cowbell, Shaker – Richie Pablo Landrum*
• Design, Artwork [Cover Painting] – Carol Byard
• Directed By, Reissue Producer – Ken Tsukamoto
• Drums – Chipper Lyles (tracks: Chip Lyle)
• Electric Piano, Piano [Acoustic] – Stanley Cowell
• Engineer – John Battiloro, Ron Carran
• Photography By [Liner] – Vigo
• Producer, Arranged By, Composed By – Sonny Fortune
• Remastered By [Digitally] – Michael Fossenkemper
• Supervised By [Reissue], Liner Notes – Yusuke Ogawa
• Trumpet – Charles Sullivan

Notes

Originally released as Strata-East LP SES-7423 in 1974.

Recorded Sept 8 & 15, 1974 at Minot Studio, White Plains, NY

Comes in miniature replica of original LP sleeve. Includes fold-out information sheet with new liner notes in Japanese, biography in Japanese and English and discography and English.

Printed in Taiwan

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4 571225 532691
• Rights Society: JASRAC
• Matrix / Runout: SHOUT-269 CXG004C2908S
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI LQ96
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 9Z53

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SES 7423	Sonny Fortune	Long Before Our Mothers Cried ‎(LP, Album)	Strata-East	SES 7423	US	1974
SES-7423	Sonny Fortune	Long Before Our Mothers Cried ‎(LP, Promo)	Strata-East	SES-7423	US	1974

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