Their 1969 self-titled sole album spawned the near-hit single "Witchi Tai To" (which received abundant airplay reaching number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and on which Pepper was the lead singer).

Originally composed by Jim Pepper, a jazz musician of Creek and Kaw Indian heritage, this version of the song was performed by Brewer and Shipley on their 1969 album, "Weeds". It's based on...

His "Witchi Tai To" (derived from a peyote healing chant of the Native American Church which he had learned from his grandfather) is the most famous example of this hybrid style; the song has...

Witchi-Tai-To Lyrics: What a spirit spring is bringing round my head / Makes me feel glad that I'm not dead / Witchi Tai Tai, kimarah / Whoa Ron-nee Ka / Whoa Ron-nee Ka / Hey-ney,...

…in 1969 and featured “Witchi Tai To,” a peyote song that Pepper had arranged according to his own jazz, rock, and folk music sensibilities. Everything Is Everything’s recording of “Witchi Tai To” ultimately reached number 69 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1969, and the song remained popular into… Read More; peyote music

Aug 31, 2008 · Jim Pepper Witchitai-to from the 1971 Embryo records release Pepper's Pow Wow

Witchi Tai To Lyrics: Witchi-tie-to, gimee rah / Whoa rah neeko, whoa rah neeko / Hey ney, hey ney, no way / Witchi-tie-to, gimee rah / Whoa rah neeko, whoa rah neeko / Hey ney, hey ney, no...

Songwriter and saxophonist Jim Pepper adapted the song "Witchi Tai To" from an ancient peyote chant that he learned from his Native American grandfather. "Witchi Tai To" was first recorded by Pepper's group, the short lived, Everything Is Everything.

Witchi-Tai-To (also written Witchi Tai To or Witchitai-To) is a song by Jim Pepper, first released by the short-lived band Everything Is Everything (with Chris Hills, Lee Reinoehl, Chip Baker, John Waller and Jim Zitro), in their first album titled Everything Is Everything Featuring Chris Hills.

Tenor saxophonist Jim Pepper was an internationally recognized and influential jazz musician. He is best remembered for "Witchi-Tai-To," his elaboration of a Comanche peyote chant learned from his grandfather Ralph Pepper, a ceremonial leader of the Kaw Tribe in Oklahoma.