On November 6, 1976, “Columbia” label released “Naked & Warm”, the fifth Bill Withers studio album. It was recorded in 1976, at “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Bill Withers.

Personnel:

• Bill Withers – lead and backing vocals
• Benorce Blackmon – guitar
• Geoffrey Leib – guitar, acoustic and electric piano
• Clifford Coulter – Moog synthesizer
• Don Freeman – acoustic and electric piano, synthesizer
• Youseff Rahman – electric piano
• Larry Nash – electric piano
• Jerry Knight – bass, backing vocals
• Melvin Dunlap – bass
• Larry Tolbert – drums
• Earl “Crusher” Bennett – congas, cowbell, slapstick, tambourine, vibraslap
• Kwasi “Rocky” Dzidzornu – congas
• Dorothy Ashby – harp, obbligato vocals
• Lenny Booker – backing vocals
• Lois Booker – backing vocals
• Helen Gonder – backing vocals
• Marsha Johnson – backing vocals
• Bob Merritt – engineer
• Phil Jamtaas – engineer assistant
• Rick Smith – assistant engineer
• Bernie Grundman – mastering
• Ken Anderson – design
• Tom Steele – design
• Elliot Gilbert – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Withers.

1. Close to Me
2. Naked & Warm (Heaven! Oh! Heaven!)
3. Where You Are
4. Dreams
5. If I Didn’t Mean You Well
6. I’ll Be with You
7. City of the Angels
8. My Imagination