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• Produced For – Kalimba Productions

Credits

• Arranged By [Horn, Strings] – Erich Bulling (tracks: B4, C2), Tom Tom 84 (tracks: B1, B2, C3, D1)
• Arranged By [Horn] – Jerry Hey (tracks: A1, A2 to A4, B3, D2, D3, C1)
• Arranged By [Strings] – David Foster (tracks: A1, A4, B3, C1, D1, D3), James Newton Howard (tracks: A2), Jerry Peters (tracks: C4)
• Bass – Verdine White
• Bells [Uncredited], Bells [Orchestra Bells, Uncredited] – Gary Coleman
• Cello – Albert Gill, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Karmazyn, Earl Madison, Frederick Seykora, Jacqueline Lustgarten, Larry Corbett, Marston Smith, Louise Zeyen*, Miguel Martinez , Olivier Nils*, Nina Deveritch, Raymond Kelley*, Ronald Cooper
• Concertmaster – Assa Drori, Harris Goldman, Janice Gower
• Design, Art Direction – Roger Carpenter
• Drums, Percussion – Fred White
• Engineer – Ernie Sheesley, Franklin Allen, Geoff Irons, George Morgan, Jeff Borgeson, John Silcott, Mark Touchy, Ray Gonzales, Reuben , Robert Wolstein, Ron Pendragon, Steve Jackson , Tchad Thompson, Wally Heider
• French Horn – Alan Robinson, Arthur Maebe*, George Price, Marilyn Robinson, Vincent DeRosa
• Guitar – Johnny Graham, Marlo Henderson, Steve Lukather
• Harp – Dorothy Jeanne Ashby*
• Illustration [Photo-light Illustration] – Kevin Lyman
• Keyboards – David Foster, Garry Glenn
• Keyboards, Organ – Jerry Peters
• Lyrics By – Brenda Russell (tracks: C1), Maurice White (tracks: A1, C1), Philip Bailey (tracks: A1)
• Management [Exclusive Representation] – Cavallo-Ruffalo Management
• Mastered By – Michael Reese*
• Other [Casting] – Kathy Kowles
• Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa, Ralph Johnson
• Photography By [Assistant] – C. Ness
• Photography By [Inside Cover] – Bruce W. Talamon*
• Photography By [Outside Cover, Poster] – Jim Shea
• Photography By [Stylist] – Franzie Moore*
• Piano, Synthesizer, Programmed By [Synthesizers] – Larry Dunn
• Producer, Vocals, Drums, Kalimba – Maurice White
• Recorded By – George Massenburg
• Recorded By, Mixed By – George Massenburg, Ken Fowler
• Saxophone [Tenor, Alto, Baritone] – Don Myrick
• Saxophone [Tenor] – Andrew Woolfolk
• Saxophone [Uncredited] – Jeff Clayton
• Saxophone, Flute – Fred Jackson Jr.*, Lawrence Williams*
• Trombone – William Reichenbach*, Fred Wesley, George Bohanon, Louis Satterfield
• Trumpet – Bobby Bryant, Chuck Findley, Gary E. Grant*, Jerry Hey, Michael Harris, Nolan Smith Jr.*, Oscar Brashear, Steve Madaio
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Rahmlee Michael Davis
• Tuba – John Johnson*
• Typography [Typographic Design] – Jim Wood
• Viola – Allan Harshman, Barbara Thomason, Brenton Banks, Bryana Sherman, David Schwartz, Gareth Nuttycombe, Harry Hyams, Herschel Wise, James Ross*, Laury Woods, Leanna Sherman, Marilyn Baker, Patricia Matthews, Renita Koven, Roland Kato, Rollice Dale, Ronald Strauss*
• Violin – Arkady Shindelman, Barry Socher, Bernard Kundell, Don Palmer*, Endre Granat, Gina Kronstadt, Glenn Dicterow, Haim Shtrum, Harold Dicterow, Henry Ferber, Henry Roth, Irvin Giller*, Isabelle Daskoff, Jack Gootkin, Janet Lakatos, Jerome Reisler, Jerome Webster, John Wittenburg*, Joseph Goodman, Joseph Shoenbrun, Joy Lyle, Karen Jones , Mari Tsumura Botnick*, Mark Cargill, Marvin Limonick, Mary Lundquist, Michael Markman, Michael Nowack*, Norman Carr, Pavel Farkas, Reginald Hill, Bobby Dubow*, Robert Jung , Robert Lipsett, Ron Clark, Ronald Folsom, Shari Zippert, Sheldon Sanov, Sid Page, Sidney Sharp, Vicky Sylvester, William Henderson , William Kurasch
• Vocals, Congas, Percussion – Philip Bailey
• Written-By – Al McKay (tracks: A1, A3, B2), Arlene Matza (tracks: D2), Brenda Russell (tracks: A4), David Foster (tracks: A4), Eddie Del Barrio* (tracks: B1, C2), Fred White (tracks: A3), Garry Glenn (tracks: B3, C3, D1), Howard McCrary (tracks: D2), James Newton Howard (tracks: A2), Jean Hancock (tracks: C4), Jerry Peters (tracks: C4), Larry Dunn (tracks: A1, A3, C1, C3, D3), Maurice White (tracks: A1 to B3, C1 to C3, D1 to D3), Philip Bailey (tracks: A3, B1, B4, C2, D3), Ralph Johnson (tracks: A1), Ross Vannelli (tracks: B4), Roxanne Seeman (tracks: C2), Valerie Carter (tracks: A2), Verdine White (tracks: A1, A3, C1, D3)

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Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (record 2): CBS S 84491 A1 / B1
• Matrix / Runout (both records (a, b, c, d side)): 88498 A1 / B1 / C1 / D1
• Matrix / Runout (record 1): CBS S 84491 A1 / B1

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