Twin Sons of Different Mothers
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Twin Sons of Different Mothers is the fifth album
Album
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 by American
United States
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 singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music...

, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music
1978 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1978.-January–April:*January 14 – The Sex Pistols play their final show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom....

). The album was the first of Fogelberg's two collaborations with jazz
Jazz
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 flautist
Flautist
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 Tim Weisberg
Tim Weisberg
Tim Weisberg is an American jazz/rock fusion flutist, composer, producer, and vocalist. In high school, at his first music class, because his last name was at the end of the alphabet, he was last to pick an instrument. All that was left was the flute and the bassoon...

; for the second, see No Resemblance Whatsoever
No Resemblance Whatsoever
No Resemblance Whatsoever is the fourteenth album by American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1995 . The album was the second Fogelberg collaboration with jazz flutist Tim Weisberg...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Dan Fogelberg, except where noted.
  1. "Twins Theme" – 1:29
  2. "Intimidation" – 3:27
  3. "Lazy Susan" – 2:36
  4. "Guitar Etude No. 3" – 2:53
  5. "Tell Me to My Face" (Allan Clarke
    Allan Clarke (singer)
    Allan Clarke is a retired British singer who was one of the founding members of The Hollies. He retired in 1999.-Career:...

    , Tony Hicks
    Tony Hicks
    Tony Hicks is a guitarist and singer who has been a member of the British pop group The Hollies since 1963.-Career:...

    , Graham Nash
    Graham Nash
    Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...

    ) – 7:15
  6. "Hurtwood Alley" – 2:48
  7. "Lahaina Luna" – 3:15
  8. "Paris Nocturne" – 3:34
  9. "Since You've Asked" (Judy Collins
    Judy Collins
    Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...

    ) – 2:41
  10. "The Power of Gold" – 4:34

Personnel

  • Dan Fogelberg - synthesizer
    Synthesizer
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    , acoustic guitar
    Steel-string acoustic guitar
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    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar
    Guitar
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    , mandolin
    Mandolin
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    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , piano
    Piano
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    , electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    , keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
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    , vocals
    Singing
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    , background vocals, voices, slide guitar
    Slide guitar
    Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

    , classical guitar
    Classical guitar
    The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...

  • Tim Weisberg
    Tim Weisberg
    Tim Weisberg is an American jazz/rock fusion flutist, composer, producer, and vocalist. In high school, at his first music class, because his last name was at the end of the alphabet, he was last to pick an instrument. All that was left was the flute and the bassoon...

     - flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

    , percussion, oboe
    Oboe
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    , piccolo
    Piccolo
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  • David Breinenthal - bassoon
    Bassoon
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  • Gary Coleman - percussion
  • Vincent DeRosa - French horn
    Horn (instrument)
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  • Earl Dumler - English horn
    Cor anglais
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  • John Ellis - organ
    Organ (music)
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    , oboe
  • Bobbye Hall
    Bobbye Hall
    Bobbye Jean Hall Porter is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 22 songs that reached the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, six of those reaching #1.-Early career:...

     - percussion, conga
    Conga
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    , cowbell
  • Don Henley
    Don Henley
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     - vocals, harmony vocals
  • John Leslie Hug - guitar, harp
    Harp
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  • Jim Keltner
    Jim Keltner
    James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...

     - drums
    Drum kit
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  • Joe Lala
    Joe Lala
    Joe Lala is an actor and voice actor, notable for his dubbing of Kun Lan of the video-game Killer7.He also played drums and percussion on 32 gold and 28 platinum albums. His credits include Blues Image, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Manassas, The Bee Gees, Whitney Houston, and many...

     - percussion, conga
  • Neil Larsen - piano, keyboard, electric piano
    Electric piano
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  • Andy Newmark
    Andy Newmark
    Andrew "Andy" Newmark is an American musician, best known as a popular session drummer, and for playing with the funk band Sly & the Family Stone from 1972 to 1973....

     - synthesizer, drums
  • Norbert Putnam
    Norbert Putnam
    Norbert Putnam is an American record producer and musician. He grew up near Florence, Alabama and was part of the Muscle Shoals musicians brought to Nashville to play for Elvis Presley in 1965. Putnam worked there as a bassist on recording sessions with Presley, Roy Orbison, Al Hirt, Henry...

     - bass
  • Ann Mason Stockton - harp
  • Florence Warner - vocals, background vocals
  • Willie Weeks
    Willie Weeks
    Willie Weeks is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also gained notoriety touring with many of rock's heavyweights throughout his career...

     - bass

Production

  • Producers: Dan Fogelberg, Tim Weisberg
  • Engineer: Marty Lewis
  • Vinyl Mastering Engineer: Glenn Meadows

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1978 Pop Albums 8


Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1978 "The Power Of Gold" Pop Singles 24
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