Chaka Khan "Naughty" (1980) -Soul / Westcoast Soul-

Label : Warner Bros. Records

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01 - Clouds (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
02 - Get Ready, Get Set (Ellison Chase, Kathy Anderson, Bill Haberman & Art Jacobson)
03 - Move Me No Mountain (Aaron Schroeder & Jerry Ragovoy)
04 - Nothing's Gonna Take You Away (Deborah Ash & Bill King)
05 - So Naughty (Charles Fleischer & Michael Mugrage)

2

01 - Too Much Love (Andrew Kastner, Dan Greer & Jeff Wilson)
02 - All Night's All Right (Weldon Dean Parks)
03 - What You Did (Chaka Khan & Mark Stevens)
04 - Papillon (Aka Hot Butterfly) (Gregg Diamond)
05 - Our Love's In Danger (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)


Produced by Arif Mardin
Recording & Mixing Engineer : Lew Hahn
Recorded & Mixed at Atlantic Studios, New York, New York
Assistant Engineer : Michael O'Reilly
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
String & Horn Arrangement by Arif Mardin
Strings :
Gene Orloff : Concertmaster
Kermit Moore, Frederick Zlotkin, Alan Shulman, Anahid Ajemian, Richard Maximoff, Al Brown, Lewis Eley, Peter Dimitriades, Harold Kohon, Leo Kahn, Matthew Raimondi, Paul Gershman, Jonathan Abramowitz, Ted Hoyle, Homer Mensch, Mitsue Takayama, Gerald Tarack, Harry Lookofsky, Frederick Buldrini & Marilyn Wright


1

01 - Clouds

Leon Pendarvis : Piano
Anthony Jackson : Bass
Jeff Mironov & Hamish Stuart : Guitars
Hiram Bullock : Guitar Solo
Arthur Jenkins : Percussion
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Cissy Houston, Mark Stevens, Whitney Houston, Charlotte Crossley & Chaka Khan : Background vocals

02 - Get Ready, Get Set

Don Grolnick : Electric Piano
Hamish Stuart & Steve Khan : Guitars
Hiram Bullock : Guitar Solo
Arthur Jenkins : Percussion
Willie Weeks : Bass
Ken Bichel : Synthesizer
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Chaka Khan & Mark Stevens : Background vocals

03 - Move Me No Mountain

Leon Pendarvis : Electric Piano
Jeff Mironov & Hamish Stuart : Guitars
Phil Upchurch : Guitar Solo
Jeff Mironov : Sitar Solo
Arthur Jenkins : Percussion
Anthony Jackson : Bass
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Howard Johnson, David Bargeron, Robert Stewart & Joseph Daley : Tubas
Peter Gordon & John Trevor Clark : French Horns
Cissy Houston & Chaka Khan : Background vocals

04 - Nothing's Gonna Take You Away

Leon Pendarvis : Electric Piano
Leon Pendarvis & Ken Bichel : Synthesizers
Steve Khan & Hamish Stuart : Guitars
Anthony Jackson : Bass
Sammy Figueroa : Percussion
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Michael Brecker : Tenor Sax
Mark Stevens, Luther Vandross & Hamish Stuart : Background vocals

05 - So Naughty

Leon Pendarvis : Electric Piano
Arthur Jenkins : Clavinet
Marcus Miller : Bass
Hamish Stuart : Guitar
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Ken Bichel : Synthesizer
Michael Brecker : Tenor Sax
David Tofani : Alto Sax
Lew Delgatto : Baritone Sax
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
Barry Rogers : Trombone
Chaka Khan : Background vocals

2

01 - Too Much Love

Leon Pendarvis : Electric Piano
Arthur Jenkins : Clavinet
Ken Bichel : Synthesizer
Hiram Bullock & Hamish Stuart : Guitars
Anthony Jackson & Mark Stevens : Bass
Nana Vasconcelos & Sammy Figueroa : Percussion
Hiram Bullock : Guitar Solo
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Chaka Khan : Background vocals

02 - All Night's All Right

Artur Jenkins & Leon Pendarvis : Electric Pianos
Phil Upchurch & Jeff Mironov : Guitars
Anthony Jackson : Bass
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Noel Pointer : Electric Violin
Randy Brecker & Marvin Stamm : Trumpets
Michael Brecker : Tenor Sax
Eddie Daniels : Alto Sax
Lew Delgatto : Baritone Sax
Barry Rogers : Trombone

03 - What You Did

Arthur Jenkins : Electric Piano
Leon Pendarvis & Ken Bichel : Synthesizers
Hiram Bullock : Guitar
Mark Stevens : Bass
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Sammy Figueroa : Percussion
Howard Johnson, David Bargeron, Robert Stewart & Joseph Daley : Tubas
Peter Gordon & John Trevor Clark : French Horns
Chaka Khan : Background vocals
Tuba Arrangement based on an idea by Chaka Khan

04 - Papillon (Aka Hot Butterfly)

Don Grolnick : Pianos
Jeff Mironov & Hamish Stuart : Guitars
Willie Weeks : Bass
Arthur Jenkins : Percussion
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Ken Bichel : Synthesizer
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
Eddie Daniels : Alto Sax & Alto Fill
Harvey Estrin : Tenor Sax
Ronnie Cuber : Baritone Sax
James Pugh : Trombone
Hugh McCracken : Harmonica Solo
Luther Vandross, Hamish Stuart, Mark Stevens & Ullanda McCullough : Background vocals

05 - Our Love's In Danger

Leon Pendarvis : Piano
Richard Tee : Synthesizer
Phil Upchurch & Jeff Mironov : Guitars
Anthony Jackson : Bass
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Arthur Jenkins : Percussion
Eddie Daniels & Michael Brecker : Tenor Saxes
Ronnie Cuber : Baritone Sax
Harvey Estrin : Alto Sax
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
James Pugh : Trombone
Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston, Charlotte Crossley, Mark Stevens & Luther Vandross
Hamish Stuart : Background vocals