1981,
United States
00:41:03;
49M;
160JS-VBR;
351;
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Closer To Your Love
- 3:58
-
My Old Friend
- 4:29
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We're In This Love Together
- 3:47
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Easy
- 5:26
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Our Love
- 3:53
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Breakin' Away
- 4:13
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Roof Garden
- 6:21
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(Round, Round, Round) Blue Ron
- 4:44
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Teach Me Tonight
- 4:12
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer [A3, A4 to B1], programmed by [synthesizer] [A2, B3]
Joe Bogan - engineer [dawnbreaker studios]
Larry Brown - engineer [pasha music]
Dave Brubeck - music by [B3]
Billy Byers - arranged by [strings] [B4]
Sammy Cahn - written-by [B4]
Tom Canning - arranged by [rhythm] [A1 to B2, B4], electric piano [fender rhodes] [A1, A4, B4], producer [associate], synthesizer [A1, A2, A4, B3], written-by [A1, A4 to B2], piano [accoustic] [A1], arranged by [vocal arrangement] [B3]
Bill Champlin - backing vocals [B2]
Mikey Davis - engineer [second, pasha music]
Frank DeCaro - contractor [musician contractor]
Gene DePaul - written-by [B4]
George Duke - electric piano [fender rhodes] [B2]
Chuck Findley - trumpet [B1, B2]
David Foster - electric piano [fender rhodes], piano [acoustic], synthesizer [A2, A5, B1], arranged by [strings] [A5]
Steve Gadd - drums [A1 to A5, B2 to B4]
Humberto Gatica - engineer [sunset sound]
Steve George - backing vocals [A2, A5, B2], written-by [A2]
Jay Graydon - arranged by [rhythm] [A1 to B2, B4], electric guitar [A1 to B2, B4], engineer [garden rake studios], producer, written-by [A1, A4 to B2], programmed by [synthesizer] [A1, A2], arranged by [vocal arrangement] [B3]
Bernie Grundman - mastered by
Jerry Hey - flugelhorn [A2], arranged by [horn] [B1, B2], trumpet [B1, B2]
Al Jarreau - arranged by [rhythm] [A1 to B2, B4], backing vocals [A1, A3, A4, B1, B2, B4], written-by [A1, A4 to B2], arranged by [vocal arrangement] [B3], lyrics by [B3]
Susan Jarreau - photography [cover]
Abraham Laboriel - bass [A1 to A5, B2 to B4]
John Lang - written-by [A2]
Milcho Leviev - arranged by [rhythm], piano [acoustic] [B3]
Steve Lukather - electric guitar [A2, A3]
Roger Murrah - written-by [A3]
Michael Omartian - electric piano [fender rhodes], synthesizer [A3]
Richard Page - backing vocals [A2, A5, B2], written-by [A2]
Dean Parks - electric guitar [B4]
Csaba Petocz - engineer [second, pasha music]
Jeff Porcaro - drums [B1]
Lon Price - soloist, saxophone [alto] [A3, B4]
Bill Reichenbach - trombone [B1, B2]
Peter Robinson - synthesizer [A4]
Christine Sauers - artwork by [art direction/design]
Tom Scott - horns [A1]
Keith Stegall - written-by [A3]
Neil Stubenhaus - bass [B1]
Debbie Thompson - engineer [second, dawnbreaker studios]
Larry Williams - soloist, synthesizer [A4]
Bob Zimmitti - percussion [A4]
A1, A4 to B2: © 1981 Aljarreau Music/Desperate Music/Garden Rake Music BMI
A2: © 1981 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Entente Music BMI
A3: © 1980 Blackwood Music, Inc./Magic Castle Music, Inc. BMI
B3: © 1960, 1981 Derry Music Co./Aljarreau Music BMI
B4: © 1953, 1954 MCA Music, a division of MCA, Inc./Cahn Music Co. and Hub Music Co. ASCAP
Basic tracks recorded at Dawnbreaker Studios, San Fernando, Calif.
Overdubs and mixing at Garden Rake Studios, Studio City, Calif.
Strings recorded at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, Calif.
Basic track for "Breakin' Away" recorded at Pasha Music, Hollywood, Calif.
Mastered at A&M Studios, Hollywood, Calif.
Management: Patrick Rains & Associates, Los Angeles
Special thanks: Jay, Tom, Susan, all the musicians and The Source.
Thank you: David Foster; Michael Boddicker; Jerry Hey; Warner Brothers; Jay Graydon - for your vision, musicianship and persistence; Tom Canning - for your continuing involvement and companionship; Susan Jarreau - for your omnipresent inspiration and album cover
Thank you, Source, for the above and all.
Jay Graydon & David Foster courtesy of RCA Records
Bill Champlin courtesy of Elektra Records
Dean Parks courtesy of Like A Movie, Inc.
Larry Williams courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
George Duke courtesy of Epic Records
Tom Scott and Steve Lukather courtesy of Columbia Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc., a subsidiary and licensee of Warner Bros. Inc., a Warner Communications Company
℗ © 1981 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Fabrication en Allemagne par WEA Musik GmbH
Made in Germany by WEA Musik GmbH
Title track B3 given on the sleeve as "Blue Rondo A La Turk".
Warner Bros. Records, WB 56 917
Warner Bros. Records, WB 56917
