15/10/2022

Gladys Knight & The Pips "Touch" (1981) -Pop Soul / Smooth Soul-



Label : CBS, Inc.


États-Unis Side 1

01 - I Will Fight (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
02 - If That'll Make You Happy (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
03 - Baby, Baby Don't Waste My Time (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
04 - A Friend Of Mine (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson & Josephine Armstead)
05 - Love Was Made For Two* (Wali Ali)

Side 2

01 - God Is (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
02 - Changed (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
03 - Reach High (Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)
04 - I Will Survive** (Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren)


Produced & Written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson for Hopsack & Silk Productions, Inc. except "Love Was Made For Two" & "I Will Survive" Produced by Gladys Knight

Lead vocals : Gladys Knight
Except "God Is" & "Love Was Made For Two" Lead vocals : Gladys Knight & Merald 'Bubba' Knight
Background vocals : The Pips - Merald 'Bubba' Knight, William Guest, Edward Patten
Rhythm Arranged by Ray Chew & Ashford & Simpson
Vocal Arrangements : Ashford & Simpson
Except "Love Was Made For Two" Vocal Arrangement : Merald 'Bubba' Knight
Horns & Strings : Rob Mounsey, Horace Ott
Mixing & Mastering : Jimmy Simpson
Except "Reach High" & "I Will Fight" Mixed by John Luongo
Chief Engineer, Recording & Mixing : Mike Hutchinson
Engineer : John Potoker
Assistants : Joan Meisel, Craig Michaels, Matthew Weiner
Studio : Sigma Sound Studio, New York
Studio Coordinator : Barbara Tiesi
Vocal Recording Engineer : John Beverly Jones
Studio : A&M Recording Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Assistants : Skip Cottrell, James Cassell
Additional Recording : A&R Recording Studio, New York
Rhythm Recorded by Ed Rackowitz
Assistant : Ollie Cotton
Strings Contracted by Sephra Herman
Copyist : Sephra Herman
Album Coordinator : Altamese Alston

*Arranger : Jimmie Haskell
Track Recorded at Wally Heider
Vocals Recorded at Kendun Recorders
Engineer : Barney Perkins

**Arranged by Joe Guercio
Orchestrated by Don Hanna
Conducted by Victor Hall
Recorded Live at The Roxy
Engineered by Barney Perkins
Assistant Engineers : Robert Winard & Tom Cummings
Overdubbed at Kendun Recorders


Side 1

01 - I Will Fight

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Guitar : Eric Gale
Bass Francisco Centeno
Drums Chris Parker
Synthesizer & Fender Rhodes : Philip Woo
Horn Solo : George Young
Percussion : Jimmy Simpson
Horns & Strings : Horace Ott

02 - If That'll Make You Happy

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Fender Rhodes : Ray Chew
Guitar : Eric Gale
Bass Francisco Centeno
Drums Chris Parker
Horns & Strings : Horace Ott

03 - Baby, Baby Don't Waste My Time

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Guitar : Eric Gale
Bass Francisco Centeno
Drums Chris Parker
Percussion : Jimmy Simpson
Horns & Strings : Rob Mounsey

04 - A Friend Of Mine

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Guitar : Eric Gale
Bass : Francisco Centeno
Horns & Strings : Horace Ott
Fender Rhodes : Ray Chew
Percussion : Jimmy Simpson

05 - Love Was Made For Two

Bass : Nathan East
Drums : James Gadson
Keyboards : John Barnes, Wali Ali
Guitar : David T. Walker, Greg Poree

Side 2

01 - God Is

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Organ : Richard Tee
Guitar : Eric Gale
Bass Francisco Centeno
Drums Chris Parker
Percussion : Sammy Figueroa

02 - Changed

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Strings : Paul Riser

03 - Reach High

Piano : Valerie Simpson
Synthesizer : Philip Woo
Guitar : Eric Gale
Bass : Francisco Centeno
Drums : Chris Parker
Percussion : Jimmy Simpson
Horns : Rob Mounsey

04 - I Will Survive

Keyboards : Kenny Moore
Bass : Nathan East
Guitar : Wali Ali
Drums : James Gadson
Percussion : David Knight, Al Thompson, Gary Coleman
Woodwinds : Willard Green, Fred Jackson, Charles Owens, Herman Riley
Trumpets : Walter Johnson, Eric Butler, Raymond Brown
Trombones : Garnett Brown, Maurice Spears, George Bohannon
Violins : Harry Bluestone, Arnold Belnick, Mari Tsumura Botnick, Marvin Limonick, Stanley Plummer, Endre Granat, Nathan Ross, Marshall Sosson
Violas : Gareth Nuttycombe, David Schwartz
Cellos : Armand Kaproff, Anne Goodman
Harp : Dorothy Ashby