23/01/2023

Splendor "Splendor" (1979) -Disco / Boogie / Smooth Soul-



Label : CBS, Inc.


États-Unis Side One

01 - All Night Long (Philip Bailey, Billy Nunn & Bobby Nunn)
02 - Special Lady (Bobby Nunn, Richard Shaw & Eric Salter)
03 - Always On Your Side (Bobby Nunn)
04 - Splendorland (Bobby Nunn)

Side Two

01 - Take Me To Your Disco (Bobby Nunn & Richard Shaw)
02 - Sunny Side Up (Bobby Nunn)
03 - Follow Your Dream (Bobby Nunn)
04 - A Brighter Day (Bobby Nunn)
05 - Carnival (Instrumental) (Marlo Henderson, James Gadson, Nathan Watts & Philip Bailey)


Produced by Philip Bailey, Tommy Vicari & Robertt Nunn for Holy Sound Productions
Executive Producer : Gerry Griffith, Columbia Records
Engineer : Tommy Vicari
Second Engineers : Bob Mockler, Les Cooper, Stewart Whitmore & Errol Moultrie
Mixed by Tommy Vicari, Philip Bailey & Robertt Nunn
Recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Filmways/Heider & Soud Labs Inc.
Mastered at A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA by Bernie Grundman
Project Coordinator : Julius L. West for Holy Sound Productions
Vocals & Tracks Arranged by Robertt Numm & Philip Bailey
Horns & Strings Arranged & Conducted by Wade Marcus


Musicians :
Drums : James Gadson, Melvin Webb & Lorenzo Shaw
Bass : Nathan Watts & Richard Shaw
Guitars : Marlo Henderson, Johnny Graham & Eric Salter
Keyboards : Billy Nunn & Robertt Nunn
Congas & Percussion : Paulinho Da Costa & Philip Bailey

Lead vocals : Sasha Meeks, Robertt Nunn, Richard Shaw, Philip Bailey, Carl Carwell, Dianne Reeves, Maxine Willard Waters, Julia Tillman Waters & Clydene Jackson
Saxophone Solo on "Splendorland" by Jerome Richardson
Special Effets on "Take Me To Your Disco" - Mini-Moog by Robertt Nunn
Syndrums by Philip Bailey