''Crosswinds'' is the third album by soul vocalist
Peabo Bryson
Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson (born April 13, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for singing soul ballads (often as a duet with female singers) including the 1983 hit "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" with Roberta Flack. Bryson ...
. Released in late 1978, the album reached number three on the US R&B albums chart.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Peabo Bryson.
#"Crosswinds" - 6:02
#"I'm So Into You" - 5:45
#"Smile" - 4:45
#"She's a Woman" - 5:20
#"Point of View" - 4:40
#"Spread Your Wings" - 4:58
#"Don't Touch Me" - 4:55
#"Love is Watching You" - 5:05
Personnel
* Peabo Bryson – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, horn arrangements, BGV arrangements
* Thomas Campbell – keyboards
*
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer. She is also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.
Her 1982 single "Forget Me Nots" received a Grammy Awar ...
–
ARP synthesizer
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in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the 1970s before de ...
* Jim Boling – ARP synthesizer, flute
* Richard Horton – guitars
* Dwight W. Watkins – bass, backing vocals
* Andre Robinson – drums
* Louis Palomo – percussion
* Ron Dover – saxophone solos (3, 7), flute
* Daniel Dillard – trombone
* Thaddeus Johnson – trumpet
*
Clare Fischer
Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University (from which, five decades later, he would receive an honorary doctorate ...
– string arrangements (1, 3–6)
* Johnny Pate – horn arrangements, BGV arrangements, string arrangements (2, 7, 8)
* Gerald Vinci – concertmaster
* Chuck Bryson – backing vocals
* Terry Dukes – backing vocals
Production
* Produced and Mixed by Peabo Bryson and Johnny Pate.
* Executive Producer – Larkin Arnold
* Recorded by Dave Iveland
* Assistant Engineer – Richard Cottrell
* Mastered by
Bernie Grundman
Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer.
He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mi ...
* Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at
A&M Studios
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(Hollywood, CA).
* Art Direction – Roy Kohara
* Design – Art Sims
* Photography – Claude Mougin
Charts
Singles
External links
Peabo Bryson-Crosswinds at Discogs
References
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1978 albums
Peabo Bryson albums
Albums arranged by Johnny Pate
Albums produced by Johnny Pate
Capitol Records albums