On April 9, 1981, “Atlantic” label released “Songs of the Beatles”, the 45th Sarah Vaughan album. It was recorded in 1977, and was produced by Marty Paich and David Paich.
Personnel:
Sarah Vaughan – vocals
Lee Ritenour, Dean Parks, Louie Shelton – guitar
Michael Lang – keyboards
Marty Paich, David Paich – keyboards, arranger
Steve Porcaro – synthesizer
Toots Thielemans – harmonica
David Hungate – bass guitar
Bob Magnusson – string bass
Jeff Porcaro – percussion, drums
Bobbye Hall, Joe Porcaro, Steve Forman – percussion
Jon Smith – tenor saxophone
Marcos Valle – vocals
Bill Thedford, Perry Morgan, Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals
Track listing:
All tracks by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.
On February 10, 1973, “ABC Dunhill Records” label released “Cameo”, the eighth Dusty Springfield studio album. It was recorded July – October 1972, at “ABC Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Steve Barri, Brian Potter and Dennis Lambert.
Personnel:
Dusty Springfield – vocals
Ben Benay – guitar
Larry Carlton – guitar
David Cohen – guitar
Dennis Lambert – keyboards
Michael Lang – keyboards
Michael Omartian – keyboards, string, horn and flute arrangements
Wilton Felder – bass guitar
Carol Kaye – bass guitar
Wilton Felder – bass guitar
Carol Kaye – bass guitar
Hal Blaine – drums
Paul Humphrey – drums
Brian Potter – percussion
Victor Feldman – percussion
Clydie King – backing vocals
Venetta Fields – backing vocals
Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
Myrna Matthews – backing vocals
Sid Sharp – concertmaster
Jimmie Haskell – string arrangements
Ruby Mazur – design
Joe Black – project coordinator
Track listing:
All tracks by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, except where noted.
Who Gets Your Love
Breakin’ Up a Happy Home
Easy Evil – Alan O’Day
Mama’s Little Girl
The Other Side of Life – David Gates
Comin’ and Goin’
I Just Wanna Be There – Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
Who Could Be Loving You Other Than Me? – Willie Hutchinson
Tupelo Honey – Van Morrison
Of All the Things
Learn to Say Goodbye” (from the ABC Movie of the Week, Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole) – Hugo Montenegro, Bradford Craig
On September 24, 1996, “Elektra” label released “Stardust”, the 15th Natalie Cole album. It was recorded June – September 1996, at “Ocean Way Recording”, “Capitol Studios”, “Conway Studios” and “LeGonks West” in Hollywood, “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, “Chartmaker Studios” in Malibu, California, “The Hit Factory” and “Sony Music Studios” in New York, “The Shire” in Bedford, New York, “Wisseloord Studios” in Hilversum, Netherlands, and was produced by George Duke, David Foster, Phil Ramone and Natalie Cole. At the 39th “Grammy Awards”, Natalie Cole won the “Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals” for the song “When I Fall in Love”, a duet with Nat King Cole. The song also won the “Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s)” for arrangers Alan Broadbent and David Foster.
Personnel:
Natalie Cole – lead and backing vocals, vocal and music arrangements, album concept, executive producer
Nat King Cole – lead vocals, Hammond B3 organ
John Chiodini – guitar, acoustic guitar
John Pizzarelli – guitar
Paul Jackson Jr. – electric guitar
Lee Ritenour – guitar
Terry Trotter – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboards
Michael Lang – acoustic piano
Rob Mounsey – acoustic piano, keyboards, music arrangements
George Duke – acoustic piano, keyboards, vibraphone, music arrangements, horn arrangements, vocals arrangements
Bob James – keyboards, acoustic piano, music arrangements
Toots Thielemans – harmonica
Jim Hughart – bass, music arrangements
Chuck Domanico – bass
David Finck – bass
Reggie Hamilton – bass
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Nathan East – bass
Harold Jones – drums
Ralph Penland – drums
Chris Parker – drums
John Guerin – drums
John Robinson – drums
Harvey Mason – drums
Bashiri Johnson – percussion
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Rafael Padilla – percussion
Dan Higgins – saxophone
Everette Harp – alto saxophone
Michael Brecker – saxophone
Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
George Bohanon – trombone
Jon Clarke – oboe
Alan Broadbent – music arrangements
John Clayton – music arrangements
David Foster – music and vocals arrangements
Johnny Mandel – music arrangements
Charles Floyd – music arrangements
Gordon Jenkins – original music arrangements
Clare Fischer – strings arrangements
Jerry Hey – horns arrangements
Janis Siegel – backing and harmony vocals
Al Schmitt – recording, mixing
Elliot Scheiner, Erik Zobler, Dave Reitzas – recording
Felipe Elgueta, Wayne Holmes, Henk Korff, John Patterson, Patrick Ulenberg – additional engineering
Jeffrey Demorris, Peter Doell, Koji Ejawa, Rob Frank, Barry Goldberg, John Hendrickson, Glenn Marchese, Eddie Miller, Charlie Paakkari, Rail Rogut, Robbes Stieglitz – engineer assistant
Gabrielle Raumberger – art direction
Emily Rich – design
Rocky Schenck – photography
Simon Ramone, Corrine Duke – production assistant
Shari Sutcliffe – project coordinator
Dick La Palm – liner notes
Track listing:
There’s a Lull in My Life – Mack Gordon, Harrye Revel
Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
Let’s Face the Music and Dance – Irving Berlin
Teach Me Tonight – Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul
When I Fall in Love – Edward Heyman, Victor Young
What a Difference a Day Made – Stanley Adams, María Méndez Grever
Love Letters – Edward Heyman, Victor Young
He Was Too Good to Me – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Dindi – Ray Gilbert, Antônio Carlos Jobim
Two for the Blues – Neal Hefti, Jon Hendricks
If Love Ain’t There – Johnny Burke
To Whom It May Concern – Nat King Cole, Charlotte Hawkins
Where Can I Go Without You? – Victor Young, Peggy Lee
Ahmad’s Blues – Ahmad Jamal. Bobby Williams
Pick Yourself Up – Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern
If You Could See Me Now – Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman
Like a Lover – Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Nelson Motta
This Morning It Was Summer – Bob Haynes
When I Fall in Love (Spanish version) – Victor Young, Edward Heyman
On September 17, 1991, “Warner Bros” label released the self-titled, debut Fourplay album. It was recorded 1990 – 1991, at “Ocean Way Recording”, “Sunset Sound” in Hollywood, “Pyramid Studios” in Los Angeles, “Starlight Studios” in Malibu, California, and was produced by Bob James, Lee Ritenour, Nathan East, and Harvey Mason.
Personnel:
Bob James– Yamaha C7 MIDI grand piano, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, executive producer
Lee Ritenour– electric guitars, classical guitars, guitar synthesizer
In September 1980, “Asylum” label released “Heartattack and Vine” , the sixth Tom Waits studio album. It was recorded June – July 1980, at “Filmways/Heider Studio B” in Hollywood, and was produced by Bones Howe.
Personnel:
Tom Waits – vocals, electric guitar, piano
Roland Bautista– electric guitar, twelve-string guitar
Ronnie Barron– Hammond organ, piano
Michael Lang – piano
Jim Hughart – bass
Greg Cohen– bass
Larry Taylor– bass
“Big John” Thomassie – drums
Victor Feldman– percussion, chimes, glockenspiel
Plas Johnson– tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Bob Alcivar– string arrangement, orchestral arrangement, conductor
In June 1968, “Reprise” label released the debut, self-titled Randy Newman album. It was recorded in 1968, and was produced by Lenny Waronker and Van Dyke Parks.
On November 13, 1977, “Warner Bros” label released “Death of a Ladies’ Man”, the fifth Leonard Cohen studio album. It was recorded June – July 1977, and was produced by Phil Spector.
Personnel:
Leonard Cohen – vocals
Phil Spector– guitar, keyboards, background vocals, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
Art Blaine – guitar
Jesse Ed Davis– guitar
David Isaac – guitar
Art Munson– guitar
David Kessel – guitar, backing vocals
Al Perkins– pedal steel, slide guitar
Sneaky Pete Kleinow– guitar, pedal steel, slide guitar
Dan Kessel – organ, synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Michael Lang – keyboards
Tom Hensley – keyboards
Bill Mays – keyboards
Don Randi– keyboards
Pete Jolly– keyboards
Barry Goldberg – keyboards
Bob Robitaille – synthesizer, assistant engineer, synthesizer programming
Devra Robitaille – synthesizer
Ray Neapolitan – electric and upright bass
Ray Pohlman – bass, guitar
Jim Keltner– drums
Hal Blaine– drums
Terry Gibbs– percussion, vibraphone
Gene Estes – percussion
Robert Zimmitti – percussion
Emil Radocchia – percussion
Don Menza– flute, saxophone, wind, horn arrangements
Jay Migliori – saxophone
Steve Douglas– flute, saxophone, wind
Conte Candoli– trumpet
Charles Loper – trombone
Jack Redmond – trombone
Bobby Bruce – fiddle, violin
Brenda Bryant – backing vocals
Ronee Blakley– backing vocals
Billy Diez – backing vocals
Oma Drake – backing vocals
Bob Dylan– backing vocals
Venetta Fields– backing vocals
Gerald Garrett – backing vocals
Allen Ginsberg– backing vocals
Clydie King– backing vocals
Sherlie Matthews– backging vocals
Bill Thedford , Julia Tillman Waters, Oren Waters, Lorna Willard – backing vocals
Nino Tempo– arrangements
Larry Levine– engineer
Bruce Gold – engineer, engineer assistant
Stan Ross – engineer, assistant
John Cabalka – art direction
Bill Naegels – design
Ron Coro – design
Track listing:
All lyrics by Leonard Cohen, all music by Phil Spector.
On August 7, 1967, “Capitol” label released “Lumpy Gravy”, the debut Frank Zappa album. It was recorded in February 1967, and was produced by Nick Venet. “Lumpy Gravy” is an album of orchestral, electric and concrete sound, performed by a group of session players Zappa dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra.
Personnel:
Frank Zappa – conductor
Glenn Phillips – vocals
Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Al Viola – guitar
Dennis Budimir – guitar
Jimmy “Senyah” Haynes – guitar
Tony Rizzi – guitar
Michael Lang – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Lincoln Mayorga – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Paul Smith – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Pete Jolly – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Bob West – bass
Jimmy Bond– bass
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Roy Estrada– bass, chorus
Frank Capp – drums
John Guerin – drums
Shelly Manne – drums
Alan Estes – percussion, drums
Victor Feldman– percussion, drums
John Rotella – percussion, woodwind
Emil Richards – percussion
Gene Estes – percussion
Jimmy Zito – trumpet
Kenny Shroyer – trombone
Richard Parissi – French horn
Vincent DeRosa– French horn
Arthur Maebe – French horn
Arnold Belnick – strings
Harold Bemko – strings
Joseph DiFiore – strings
Jesse Ehrlich – strings
Ray Kelly – strings
Jerome Kessler – strings
Alexander Koltun – strings
Bernard Kundell – strings
William Kurasch – strings
Harry Hyams – strings
Leonard Malarsky – strings
Jerome Reisler – strings
Joseph Saxon – strings
Ralph Schaeffer – strings
Leonard Selic – strings
Tibor Zelig – strings
James Getzoff – strings
Philip Goldberg – strings
Bunk Gardner – woodwind
Jules Jacob – woodwind
Ted Nash – woodwind
Donald Christlieb – woodwind
Gene Cipriano – woodwind
Harold Kelling – vocals
Larry Fanoga (Euclid James “Motorhead” Sherwood) – vocals, chorus
On January 24, 1972, “RCA” released the self titled, fourth Cass Elliot studio album. It was recorded in 1971 at “RCA’s Music Center of the World” in Hollywood, and was produced by Lewis Merenstein and Benny Golson.
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