On July 23, 1973, “Capitol” label released “Long Hard Climb”, the fourth Helen Reddy studio album. It was recorded in 1973, and was produced by Tom Catalano and Jay Senter.
Personnel:
Helen Reddy – vocals
Al Capps – arrangements, conductor
Lee Holdridge – arrangements, conductor
Jim Horn – horn arrangements
Armin Steiner – engineer
Doug Sax – cutting engineer
John Hoernle – art direction
Norman Seeff – photography
Track listing:
Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) – Linda Laurie
Lovin’ You – John Sebastian
A Bit O.K. – Peter Allen, Carole Bayer Sager
Don’t Mess with a Woman – Michael Curtis, Richard Curtis, Patty Moan
Delta Dawn – Larry Collins, Alex Harvey
The West Wind Circus – Adam Miller
If We Could Still Be Friends – Paul Williams
Long Hard Climb – Ron Davies
Until It’s Time for You to Go – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Old Fashioned Way – Georges Garvarentz, Joel Hirschhorn, Al Kasha
On January 9, 1967, “Colgems” label released “More of the Monkees”, the second Monkees (The) studio album. It was recorded June – November 1966, at “RCA Victor A, B” in Hollywood, “RCA Victor A, B” in New York, “Western Recorders No. 2” in Hollywood, and was produced by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, Michael Nesmith, Jeff Barry, Jack Keller, Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The album was certified quintuple platinum in the US by the “RIAA”,
Personnel:
Micky Dolenz – lead vocals and backing vocals
Davy Jones – lead and backing vocals
Peter Tork – lead and backing vocals, guitar
Michael Nesmith – lead and backing vocals, steel guitar
Wayne Erwin – guitar, backing vocals
Gerry McGee – guitar
Louie Shelton – guitar
Al Gafa – guitar
Willard Suyker – guitar
Don Thomas – guitar
James Burton – guitar
Glen Campbell – guitar
Al Casey – guitar
Mike Deasy – guitar
Neil Diamond – guitar
Sal DiTroia – guitar
Al Gorgoni – guitar
Carol Kaye – guitar
Norm Jeffries – tambourine
Michael Cohen – keyboards
Larry Knechtel – keyboards
Neil Sedaka – keyboards
Michael Cohen – keyboards
Larry Knechtel – keyboards
Don Randi – keyboards
Michel Rubini – keyboards
George Butcher – keyboards
Stan Free – keyboards
Bobby Hart – organ, backing vocals
Larry Taylor – bass guitar
Russ Savakus – bass guitar
Bob West – bass guitar
Ray Pohlman – bass guitar
Billy Lewis – drums
Herbie Lovelle – drums
Hal Blaine – drums
Buddy Saltzman – drums
George Devens – percussion
Frank Capp – percussion
Julius Wechter – percussion
Gary Coleman – percussion
Jim Gordon – percussion
Louis Haber – violin
Irving Spice – violin
Louis Stone – violin
David Sackson – viola
Murray Sandry – viola
Seymour Barab – cello
Jeff Barry – backing vocals
Tommy Boyce – backing vocals
Ron Hicklin – backing vocals
Don Peake – conductor
Artie Butler – string arrangements
Don Kirshner – music supervisor
Lester Sill – music coordinator
Emil LaViola – music coordinator
Ernie Oelrich – engineer
Henry Lewy – engineer
Hank Cicalo – engineer
Richie Schmitt – engineer
Richard Podolor – engineer
Dave Hassinger – engineer
Ray Hall – engineer
Track listing:
She – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
When Love Comes Knockin’ (At Your Door) – Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka
Mary, Mary – Michael Nesmith
Hold on Girl – Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh
Your Auntie Grizelda – Diane Hildebrand, Jack Keller
(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
Look Out (here Comes Tomorrow) – Neil Diamond
The Kind of Girl I Could Love – Michael Nesmith, Roger Atkins
The Day We Fall in Love – Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell
Sometime in the Morning –Gerry Goffin, Carole King
Laugh – Phil Margo, Mitch Margo, Hank Medress, Jay Siegel
On June 25, 1991, “Arista” label released “What You See Is What You Sweat”, the thirty-third Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in 1990, and was produced by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, David “Pic” Conley, Aretha Franklin, Michel Legrand, Oliver Leiber, Gene Lennon, Bruce Roberts, Joshua Thompson, David Townsend, Luther Vandross, Narada Michael Walden and Elliot Wolff.
Personnel:
Aretha Franklin – lead and backing vocals, piano
Rick Iantosca – acoustic guitar
Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
Dean Parks – guitar
Vernon Black – guitar
David Townsend – guitar
Jean-Marc Benais – guitar
Teddy F. White – guitar
Al Turner – bass guitar
Marcus Miller – bass guitar
Dominique Bertram – bass guitar
Rudolph Stansfield – piano
Thierry Eliez – piano
Skip Anderson – keyboards
Burt Bacharach – keyboards
Oliver Leiber – keyboards, drum programming, guitar
Jason Miles – keyboards
Louis Biancaniello – keyboards, programming
David Foster – keyboards, programming
Nat Adderley Jr. – keyboards
Bobby Wooten – keyboards, electric piano, drum programming, synthesizer
Michael Boddicker – keyboards, programming
Hubert Eaves III – keyboards, drum programming
Elliot Wolff – keyboards, drum programming
Joshua Thompson – keyboards, guitar, synthesizer
Peter Schwartz – additional keyboards
Charles Scales – synthesizer
Michel Legrand – synthesizer
Guy Vaughn – drum programming
Narada Michael Walden – drums, programming
Buster Marbury – drums
André Ceccarelli – drums
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Larry Fratangelo – percussion
Larry Williams – programming
Franck Thore – Pan pipes
Onita Sanders – harp
Candy Dulfer – saxophone
David Boruff – saxophone
Gene Lennon – programming
Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals
Jesse Richardson – backing vocals
Sandra Feva – backing vocals
Brenda Corbett – backing vocals
Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals
Diane Green – backing vocals
Sherry Fox – backing vocals
Portia Griffin – backing vocals
Margaret Branch – backing vocals
Jarvis Barker – backing vocals
Nikita Germaine – backing vocals
Skyler Jett – backing vocals
Jeanie Tracy – backing vocals
Tony Lindsay – backing vocals
Gwen Guthrie – backing vocals
Tawatha Agee – backing vocals
Donna Davis – backing vocals
Marj Harber – backing vocals
Esther Ridgeway – backing vocals
Gloria Ridgeway – backing vocals
Gracie Ridgeway – backing vocals
Clive Davis – executive producer
Track listing:
Everyday people – Sly Stone
Ever Changing Times – Burt Bacharach, Bill Conti, Carole Bayer Sager
What You See Is What You Sweat – David Conley, Derrick Culler, Gene Lennon, Joshua Thompson
Mary Goes Round – Elliot Wolff, Oliver Leiber
I Dreamed a Dream – Alain Boubill, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean Marc Natel, Claude Michel Schonberg
Someone’s Else’s Eyes – Bruce Roberts, Burt Bacharach, Bayer Sager
Doctor’s Orders – Luther Vandross, Hubert Eaves III
You Can’t Take Me for Granted – Aretha Franklin
What You Give – Aretha Franklin
Everyday People (Shep Pettibone Remix) – Sly Stone
On May 19, 1977, “Atlantic” label released “Sweet Passion”, the twenty-third Aretha Franklin album. It was recorded 1976 – 1977, at “ABC Recording Studios” in Los Angeles, “Whitney Recording Studios” in Glendale, CA, and was produced by Aretha Franklin, Lamont Dozier, Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager.
Personnel:
Aretha Franklin – vocals, keyboards
Ray Parker Jr.– guitar
Lee Ritenour– guitar
Craig McMillian – guitar
Mike Morgan – guitar
David Paich– keyboards
Sylvester Rivers– keyboards
Sonny Burke– keyboards
Ronald Coleman – keyboards
B. Barnum– rhythm arrangements, horn arrangements, string arrangements, keyboards
Ray Brown – bass guitar
Scott Edwards – bass guitar
Chuck Rainey– bass guitar
James Gadson– drums
Harold Mason – drums
Joe Clayton – congas, percussion
Gary Coleman – percussion
Bob Zimmitti – percussion
Lamont Dozier– rhythm arrangements
McKinley Jackson – rhythm arrangements, horn arrangements
Gene Page– horn and string arrangements
David Paich, Marty Paich – co-producers
Frank Kemjar, Reginald Dozier, Barney Perkins – engineer
Reginald Dozier, Barney Perkins – mixing.
Dennis King – mastering
Bob Defrin – photography
David Alexander – photography
Track listing:
Break It To Me Gently – Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager
When I Think About You – Aretha Franklin
What I Did for Love – Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban
No One Could Ever Love You More – Lamont Dozier
A Tender Touch – Aretha Franklin
Touch Me Up – Lamont Dozier
Sunshine Will Never Be The Same – Lamont Dozier
Meadows of Springtime – Aretha Franklin
Mumbles / I’ve Got the Music in Me – Clark Terry, Aretha Franklin, Bias Boshell
On July 14, 1986, “Columbia” label released “Knocked Out Loaded”, the twenty-fourth Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded April – June 1986, and was produced by Bob Dylan. The cover art is a reworking of the January 1939 cover of “Spicy Adventure Stories”.
Personnel:
Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards
Tom Petty– guitar
T-Bone Burnett– guitar
Mike Campbell– guitar
Ira Ingber – guitar
Dave Stewart– guitar
Ronnie Wood– guitar
Jack Sherman– guitar
Al Perkins– steel guitar
Larry Meyers – mandolin
Vince Melamed – keyboards
Al Kooper– keyboards
Benmont Tench– keyboards
Patrick Seymour – keyboards
James Jamerson, Jr. – bass guitar
John Paris – bass guitar
John McKenzie– bass guitar
Vito San Filippo – bass guitar
Carl Sealove – bass guitar
Howie Epstein– bass guitar
Anton Fig– drums
Stan Lynch– drums
Raymond Lee Pounds – drums
Don Heffington – drums
Clem Burke– drums
Milton Gabriel – steel drums
Mike Berment – steel drums
Bryan Parris – steel drums
Phil Jones – conga
Steve Douglas– saxophone
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Maia Smith – vocals
Lara Firestone – backing vocals
Pamela Quinlan – backing vocals
Carolyn Dennis– backing vocals
Keysha Gwin – backing vocals
Peggie Blu– backing vocals
Majason Bracey – backing vocals
Muffy Hendrix – backing vocals
April Hendrix-Haberlan – backing vocals
Dewey B. Jones II – backing vocals
Queen Esther Marrow – backing vocals
Larry Mayhand – backing vocals
Angel Newell – backing vocals
Herbert Newell – backing vocals
Crystal Pounds – backing vocals
Madelyn Quebec – backing vocals
Daina Smith – backing vocals
Medena Smith – backing vocals
Annette May Thomas – backing vocals
Damien Turnbough – backing vocals
Chyna Wright – backing vocals
Elesecia Wright – backing vocals
Tiffany Wright – backing vocals
Britt Bacon – engineer
Judy Feltus – engineer
Don Smith – engineer
George Tutko – engineer
Greg Fulginiti– mastering
Track listing:
All tracks by Bob Dylan, except where noted.
You Wanna Ramble – Little Junior Parker
They Killed Him – Kris Kristoferson
Driftin’ Too Far From Shore
Precious Memories – traditional, arr. by Bob Dylan
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