23/01/2026

Take Five "Take Five" (1981) -Disco / Funk-



Label : Destiny Records


États-Unis Side One

01 - B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Body) (Alan Roy Scott, Ed Fox & Dean Foster)
02 - You Gotta Walk Through It To Get To It (Doug James & Alan Roy Scott)
03 - The Oop Oop Song (Michael Zager & Alvin Fields)
04 - Good Time Music (Michael Zager & Alvin Fields)

Side Two

01 - Join Us (Warren Moise)
02 - The Word Is Out (Doug James, Doug Frank, Cissy Houston & Billy Hocher)
03 - What If I Walked Out On You (Michael Zager)
04 - Reaching Out For Love (Cissy Houston, Alvin Fields & Doug Frank)


Produced, Arranged & Conducted by Michael Zager for Love-Zager Productions, Inc.
Executive Producer : Jerry Love 'A Product Of Love'
Vocal Arrangement by Take Five
Album Co-ordinator for Love-Zager Productions : Deirdre O'Hara
Recorded at Silvery Moon Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Engineer : Michael Bo Shears
Assistant Engineer : Mark Hanon
Contracting by Billy & Olivia Page
Mix on "Reaching Out For Love" & "What If I Walked Out On You" by Michael Bo Shears
Assistant : Mark Hanon
All Other Tunes Mixed at Media Sound, New York City
Engineer : Michael Barbiero
Remixed by Elton Ahi at Sound City, Van Nuys, CA
Album Mastered at A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA
Engineer : Bob Carbone

Electric Piano on "What If I Walked Out On You" & Acoustic Piano on "The Oop Oop Song" & "Reaching Out For Love" by Michael Zager
Bass : Francisco Centeno
Keyboards : Rob Mounsey
Guitar : Robert White, Lee Ritenour
Percussion : Paulinho Da Costa, Jack Ashford
Drums : James Gadson on "The Oop Oop Song", Mike Baird on "The Word Is Out", "Reaching Out For Love", "What If I Walked Out On You"
Trumpet & Flugel Horn : Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey
Trombone : George Bohannon, Bill Reichenbach
Bass Trombone : Lew McCreary
Baritone Sax : Kim Hutchcroft
Alto Sax : Gary Herbig
The Harry Bluestone String Section

"B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Body)" & "You Gotta Walk Through It To Get To It" Recorded at Sound Castle Recording Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Engineers : William A. Buttrell & Daryl Gustamachio
Assistant : Bob Stoughton
Horns, Strings & Rhythm Tracks Recorded at Secret Sound Studios, New York City

The Alfred Brown String Section
The John Gatchel Horn Section

Rhythm Section :
Drums : Alan Schwartzberg
Keyboards : Rob Mounsey
Percussion : Rubens Bassini
Bass : Francisco Centeno
Guitar : Jeff Mironov & Steve Love