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Nick Heyward: From Monday To Sunday

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On December 7, 1993, “Epic” label released “From Monday to Sunday”, the fourth Nick Heyward album. It was recorded in 1993, at “Shaw Sound” in Fulham, Lilley Yard, and was produced by Nick Heyward.

Personnel:

  • Nick Heyward – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Anthony Clark – keyboards, Hammond organ, backing vocals
  • Phil Taylor – organ, piano
  • Neil Scott – guitar
  • Jimmy Williams – mandolin, slide guitar, backing vocals
  • Les Nemes – bass guitar, guitar, drum programming
  • Trevor Smith – drums
  • Graham Ward – drums
  • Geoff Dugmore – percussion
  • Andy Duncan – percussion
  • Steve Sidwell – trumpet
  • Richard Edwards – trombone
  • Julian Stringle – clarinet
  • Frank Schaefer – cello
  • Bob Sargeant – backing vocals
  • Blair Booth – backing vocals
  • Julian Gordon-Hastings – drum programming
  • Ian Shaw – drum programming
  • Ali Thompson – drum programming
  • Julian Gordon-Hastings – engineer, recording
  • Ian Shaw – recording
  • Dave Bascombe – mixing
  • Denis Blackham – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Nick Heyward.

  1. He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do
  2. Kite
  3. Into Your Life
  4. Caravan
  5. Ordinary People
  6. How Do You Live Without Sunshine
  7. January Man
  8. Mr. Plain
  9. These Words
  10. All I Want to Know
  11. Diary
  12. Everytime

Patti LaBelle: Patti

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On July 3, 1985, “Philadelphia International” label released “Patti”, the seventh Patti LaBelle studio album. It was recorded in 1985, at “Sigma Sound Studios” in Philadelphia, and was produced by Kenny Gamble, Reggie Griffin, Leon Huff, Joseph Jefferson, Bunny Sigler, James Sigler, Dexter Wansel and Cecil Womack.

Personnel:

  • Patti LaBelle – lead, harmony and backing vocals
  • Herb Smith – guitar, backing vocals
  • Cecil Womack – guitar, arrangements
  • Dennis Harris – guitar
  • Joel Bryant – acoustic piano
  • James Budd Ellison – acoustic piano, keyboards, arrangements, musical director, orchestra conductor
  • Philip Woo – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers
  • Dexter Wansel – keyboards, arrangements
  • Joseph Jefferson – keyboards, arrangements
  • Cecil Du Valle – keyboards, synthesizers
  • Leon Huff – keyboards
  • Reggie Griffin – guitar, bass, keyboards, Minimoog, synthesizers, drum programming, arrangements 
  • James Sigler – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements
  • William Jolly – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, arrangements
  • Lenny Pakula – organ
  • Bunny Sigler – keyboards
  • Jimmy Williams – bass
  • Steve Green – bass
  • Darryl Jones – bass
  • Quinton Joseph – drums
  • John Ingram – drums, backing vocals
  • Charles Collins – drums
  • Clifford “Pete” Rudd – drums
  • Miguel Fuentes – percussion
  • Don Renaldo – horns and strings
  • Sam Peake – saxophone
  • Andrea Jackson – backing vocals
  • Donna Natson – backing vocals
  • Veronica Underwood – backing vocals
  • Cynthia Biggs – backing vocals
  • Terri Wells – backing vocals
  • Edward Batts – backing vocals
  • Peter Humphreys, King Shameek, Arthur Stoppe, Joseph Tarsia – engineer
  • Randy Abrams, Tom Caine, Marin Conaty, Scott MacMillan, Glenn McKee, Adam Silverman, Vince Warsavage – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Byram – art direction
  • Diane Best – illustration
  • Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff – executive producers

Track listing:

  1. Love Symphony – Linda Womack, Cecil Womack
  2. Living Double – Bunny Sigler, James Sigler
  3. Where I Wanna Be – Cecil Womack, Kenny Gamble
  4. Shy – Bunny Sigler, Kenny Gamble
  5. Look to the Rainbow – Burton Lane, E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
  6. I Can’t Forget You – James Herbert Smith, Terri Wells
  7. What Can I Do for You – Charles Simmons, Richard Roebuck, Joseph Jefferson
  8. If You Don’t Know Me By Now (live) – Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff

Teddy Pendegrass: Teddy

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On June 23, 1979, “Philadelphia International” label released “Teddy”, the third Teddy Pendergrass studio album. It was recorded 1978 – 1979, at “Sigma Sound Studios” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was produced by Thom Bell, Sherman Marshall, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, John Whitehead and Gene McFadden.

Personnel:

  • Teddy Pendergrass – lead and backing vocals
  • Bobby Eli, Dennis Harris, Roland Chambers, Tony Bell – guitar
  • Leon Huff – keyboards
  • Thom Bell – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Lenny Pakula – organ
  • Bob Babbitt, Jimmy Williams – bass
  • David Cruse – percussion
  • Charles Collins, Keith Benson, Quinton Joseph – drums
  • Don Renaldo & His Horns and Strings – strings, horns
  • Barbara Ingram, Carl Helm, Carla Benson, Evette Benton, Joseph Jefferson -backing vocals
  • Jack Faith, Tony Bell, Dexter Wansel, Jerry Cohen, Larry Gold, John L. Usry Jnr., Thom Bell – arrangements
  • Ed Lee – design
  • Frank Laffitte – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, except where noted.

  1. Come Go with Me
  2. Turn Off the Lights
  3. I’ll Never See Heaven Again – LeRoy Bell, Casey James
  4. All I Need Is You – Darnell Jordan, Sherman Marshall
  5. If You Know Like I Know – Jerry Cohen, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead
  6. Do Me
  7. Set Me Free – LeRoy Bell, Casey James
  8. Life Is a Circle

Chrissie Hynde: Valve Bone Woe

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On September 6, 2019, “BMG Rights Management” label released “Valve Bone Woe”, the second Chrissie Hynde studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Marius DeVries and Eldad Guetta.

Personnel:

  • Chrissie Hynde – vocals
  • James Walbourne – guitars
  • Peter Roth – nylon string guitar
  • Marcel Camargo – nylon string guitar
  • Eldad Guetta – keyboards, guitars, trumpet, bass, percussion
  • David Hartley – piano, Rhodes
  • Marius de Vries – synths, piano
  • Matt Robertson – additional keyboards
  • Liran Doran – bass
  • Tal Wilkenfeld – bass
  • Ian Thomas – drums
  • The Valve Bone Woe Orchestra

Track listing:

  1. How Glad I Am – Larry Harrison, Jimmy Williams
  2. Caroline, No – Tony Asher, Brian Wilson
  3. I’m a Fool to Want You – Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf
  4. I Get Along Without You Very Well – Hoagy Carmichael
  5. Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters – Charles Mingus
  6. Once I Loved – Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes
  7. Wild Is the Wind – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
  8. You Don’t Know What Love Is – Gene de Paul, Don Raye
  9. River Man – Nick Drake
  10. Absent Minded Me – Bob Merrill, Jule Styne
  11. Naima – John Coltrane
  12. Hello, Young Lovers – Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
  13. No Return – Ray Davies
  14. Que reste-l-il de nos amours – Charles Trenet

Aretha Franklin: Runnin’ Out of Fools

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On November 16, 1964, “Columbia” label released “Runnin’ Out of Fools”, the sixth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in 1964, and was produced by Clyde Otis.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – vocal
  • Belford C. Hendricks – arrangements, conductor
  • Dee Dee Warwick – backing vocals

Track listing::

  1. Mockingbird – Charlie Foxx, Inez Foxx
  2. How Glad I Am – Jimmy Williams, Larry Harrison
  3. Walk On By – Hal David, Burt Bacharach
  4. Every Little Bit Hurts – Ed Cobb
  5. The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss) – Rudy Clark
  6. You’ll Lose a Good Thing – Barbara Lynn Ozen
  7. I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face – Chip Taylor, Norman Meade
  8. It’s Just a Matter of Time – Belford Hendricks, Clyde Otis, Brook Benton
  9. Runnin’ Out of Fools – Kay Rogers, Richard Ahlert
  10. My Guy – Smokey Robinson
  11. Two Sides of Love – Roy Alfred
  12. One Room Paradise – John Leslie McFarland

Loggins And Messina: So Fine

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In August 1975, “Columbia” label released “So Fine”, the fifth Loggins and Messina studio album. It was recorded in 1975, at Jim Messina’s ranch in Ojai, California, and was produced by Jim Messina.

Personnel:

  • Kenny Loggins – vocals, acoustic and rhythm guitar, harmonica, banjo, 2nd engineer
  • Jim Messina- vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, mandolin
  • Mike Rubini- piano
  • Larry Sims – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Merel Bregante – drums
  • Milt Holland- percussion
  • Steve Forman – percussion
  • Vince Denham – saxophone
  • Don Roberts – saxophone, flute
  • Jon Clarke – flute, saxophone
  • Richard Greene – violin
  • Alex Kazanegras – engineer
  • Corey Bailey – recording
  • Lew Schatzer – recording assistant
  • Ron Coro, Nancy Donald – design
  • Jim McCrary, Reid Miles – photography

Track listing:

  1. Oh, Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
  2. My Baby Left Me – Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
  3. Wake Up Little Susie – Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  4. I’m Movin’ On – Hank Snow
  5. Hello Mary Lou – Gene Pitney
  6. Hey Good Lookin’ – Hank Williams
  7. Splish Splash – Bobby Darin, Murray the K
  8. A Lover’s Question – Brook Benton, Jimmy Williams
  9. You Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry
  10. I Like It Like That – Chris Kenner
  11. So Fine – Johnny Otis
  12. Honky Tonk – Part II – Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd

Otis Redding: Love Man

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In June 1969, “Atco” label released “Love Man”, the fourth Otis Redding posthumous album. It was recorded in 1967, and was produced by Steve Cropper.

Personnel:

  • Otis Redding – vocals
  • Steve Cropper- guitar
  • Booker T. Jones – organ, piano
  • Isaac Hayes – organ, piano
  • Donald “Duck” Dunn- bass
  • Al Jackson, Jr.- drums
  • Andrew Jackson – tenor saxophone
  • Joe Arnold – tenor saxophone
  • Wayne Jackson- trumpet
  • Ron Capone, Jim Stewart- engineer
  • Paul C. Acree Jr. – cover photo
  • Loring Eutemey – design

Track listing:

  1. I’m A Changed Man – Steve Cropper, Otis Redding, Louiella Cullipher
  2. Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher – Gary Jackson, Carl Smith
  3. That’s a Good Idea – Otis Redding
  4. I’ll Let Nothing Separate Us – Otis Redding
  5. Direct Me – Steve Cropper, Otis Redding
  6. Love Man – Otis Redding
  7. Grovin’ Time – Otis Redding, Steve Cropper
  8. Your Feeling is Mine – Otis Redding
  9. Got to Get Myself Together – Otis Redding
  10. Free Me – Otis Redding, Gene Lawson
  11. A Lover’s Question – Brook Benton, Jimmy Williams
  12. Look at That Girl – Randall Stewart, Edward Morris

Robert Palmer: Double Fun

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In March 1978, “Island” label released “Double Fun” the fourth Robert Palmer album. It was recorded 1977-1978,  at “The Hit Factory”, “Media Sound Recordings” in New York and “Sigma Sound Studios” in Philadelphia, and was produced by Robert Palmer and Tom Moulton.

Personnel:

  • Robert Palmer– vocals, guitar, percussion
  • Paul Barrere– guitar, backing vocals
  • Freddie Harris – guitar
  • Neil Hubbard– guitar
  • J. Tindall– guitar
  • James Mahoney – guitar
  • Donovan McKitty – guitar
  • Ron Kersey– keyboards
  • Steve Robbins – keyboards
  • James Allen Smith – keyboards
  • Louis John Davis – keyboards
  • Bill Payne– keyboards, backing vocals
  • Edward Putmon – keyboards
  • Jimmy Williams – bass
  • Pierre Brock – bass
  • Bob Babbitt– bass
  • Richie Hayward– drums
  • Chris Parker– drums
  • Keith Errol Benson – drums
  • Allan Schwartzberg– drums, percussion
  • Robert Greenidge– percussion
  • Lenny Castro– percussion
  • Michael Brecker– saxophone
  • Randy Brecker– trumpet
  • Harry Bluestone – concertmaster
  • Don Renaldo – concertmaster
  • Gene Davis – string arrangements
  • John Davis – string arrangements
  • Brenda Russell– backing vocals
  • Brian Russell – backing vocals
  • Phill Brown, Arthur Stoppe, Tom Moulton – engineer
  • Jose Rodriguez – mastering
  • Tina Bossidy – art direction
  • Hiro (51) – photography
  • Chris Blackwell – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Palmer except where noted.

  1. Every Kinda People- Andy Fraser
  2. Best of Both Worlds
  3. Come Over
  4. Where Can It Go?
  5. Night People – Allen Toussaint
  6. Love Can Run Faster
  7. You Overwhelm Me
  8. You Really Got Me – Ray Davies
  9. You’re Gonna Get What’s Coming