Brooklyn Dreams "Sleepless Nights" (1979) -Disco / Westcoast Funk-

  

 Label : Casablanca Record And FilmWorks

 Side 1

01 - Make It Last (Bruce Sudano & Joe Esposito)
02 - That's Not The Way That Your Mama Taught You To Be (Bruce Sudano, Joe Esposito & Eddie Hokenson)
03 - Medley: Sleepless Nights / Send Me A Dream (Bruce Sudano & Joe Esposito) / (Bruce Sudano)
04 - Fashion For Me (Bruce Sudano & D. Duncan)
05 - First Love (Bruce Sudano, Joe Esposito, Eddie Hokenson & L. Steihl)

Side 2

01 - Street Man (Bruce Sudano, Joe Esposito & Eddie Hokenson)
02 - Touching In The Dark (Bruce Sudano & Joe Esposito)
03 - Long Distance (Bruce Sudano & Joe Esposito)
04 - Coming Up The Hard Way (Buce Sudano, Joe Esposito, Eddie Hokenson & Assunta)
05 - Heaven Knows (Donna Summer, Georgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte)


Produced, Arranged & Conducted by Bob Esty
Recorded at :

Larrabee Sound, Los Angeles 

The Hit Factory, New York City 

Sound Arts, Los Angeles
Engineer : Bob Stone

Assisted by J. Arvid Bergman
Mixed at Studio 55, Los Angeles
Mastered at Allen Sentz Recording, Hollywood

Drums : Ed Greene, Mike Baird

Bass : Chuck Rainey, Scott Edwards, David Hungate

Electric Guitar : Jay Graydon, Thom Rotella, Snuffy Walden

Acoustic Guitar : Thom Rotella, Bruce Sudano, Joe Esposito

Acoustic Piano : Bob Esty, Jaï Winding

Electric Piano & Clavinet : Jaï Winding

Percussion : Victor Feldman, Eddie Hokenson

Synthesizer, Keyboards : Bob Esty

Synthesizer Programming & Special Electronics Effects : Dan Wyman

Strings : Sid Sharp, Concert Master

Assistant to the Producer : Darryl Peck

Contractor : Trevor Veitch

"Make It Last"
Guitar Solo : Lee Ritenour 

"That's Not The Way That Your Mama Taught You To Be"
Tenor Saxophone Solo : Jerry Jumonville 

"Sleepless Nights / Send Me A Dream"
Guitar Solo : Jerry Doucette, Snuffy Walden
Harp : Gayle Levant
"Fashion For Me"
String Quartet :

1st Violin : Guy Lumia
2nd Violin : Matt Raimondi
Viola : Lamar Alsop
Cello : Jesse Levy

"First Love"
Guitar Solo : Snuffy Walden
Horns :
Trumpet : Lew Soloff
Trombone : Barry Rogers
Tenor Saxophone : Michael Brecker
Baritone Saxophone : Lew Delgatto
Horns Arranged by Lew Delgatto

"Long Distance"
Guitar Solo : Lee Ritenour

"Coming Up The Hard Way"
Trumpet Solo : Jerry Hey
Horns :
Trumpets : Steve Madaio, Chuck Findley & Jerry Hey
Saxophone : Gary Herbig, Jon Kip & David Luell
Trombone : Dick 'Slyde' Hyde & Bill Reichenbach

Special Thanks for singing Background vocals on "Coming Up The Hard Way" : Michele Aller, Pattie Brooks, Marc Figueroa, B.J. Foster, Mary Ellen Gaines, Yolande Howard, Paul Jabara, Judy Jones, D.C. La Rue, Lori Lieberman, Arnold McCuller, Danny Peck, Brenda Russell & Carlene Williams

Thanks to Donna Summer who has given us more than we ever dreamed