''Negotiations and Love Songs'' is a compilation album of songs by American singer-songwriter
Paul Simon, released in 1988 by
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Records Inc. (formerly Warner Bros. Records Inc.) is an American record label. A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded on March 19, 1958, as the recorded music division of the ...
. It consists of songs released from 1971 to 1986. The title of the compilation is taken from a line in the song "Train in the Distance".
Track listing
* "Graceland" appears only on the LP edition of the album.
Personnel
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Paul Simon – vocals, guitar (tracks 2–6, 11, 15), acoustic guitar (tracks 8, 12), background vocals (tracks 10, 16–17), electric guitar (track 14),
six-string electric bass (track 16)
;Additional musicians
*Huk Brown – lead guitar (track 1)
*Wallace Wilson – rhythm guitar (track 1)
*Neville Hinds – organ (track 1)
*Jackie Jackson – bass guitar (track 1)
*Winston Grennan – drums (track 1)
*Denzil Laing – percussion (track 1)
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Larry Knechtel
Lawrence William Knechtel (August 4, 1940 – August 20, 2009) was an American keyboard player and bassist who was a member of the Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon & ...
– piano (track 1)
*Cissy Houston – singer (track 1)
*Renelle Stafford – singer (track 1)
*Deirdre Tuck – singer (track 1)
*Von Eva Sims – singer (track 1)
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David Spinoza – guitar (tracks 2–3)
*Airto Moreira – percussion (tracks 2, 12–13)
*Russel George – bass guitar (track 2)
*Alexander Gafa – guitar (track 3)
*Bob Cranshaw – electric bass (track 3)
*Richard Davis – acoustic bass (track 3)
*Grady Tate – drums (track 3)
*Bobby James – keyboard (track 3)
*Bobby Scott – piano (track 3)
*Don Elliot –
vibes (track 3)
*Pete Carr – electric guitar (tracks 4, 6)
*David Hood – bass guitar (tracks 4–6, 9)
*Roger Hawkins – percussion (tracks 4–6, 9)
*Barry Beckett – keyboard, vibes (tracks 4, 6), electric piano (track 9)
*The Dixie Hummingbirds – vocal group (track 5)
*Jimmy Johnson – electric guitar (track 6)
*
Bob James – electric piano (track 7)
*
Hugh McCracken
Hugh Carmine McCracken (March 31, 1942 – March 28, 2013) was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally a ...
– electric guitar (tracks 7–8, 10)
*Joe Beck – electric guitar (track 7)
*
Tony Levin
Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (since 1 ...
– bass guitar (tracks 7–8, 10)
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Steve Gadd
Stephen Kendall Gadd (born April 9, 1945) is an American drummer, percussionist, and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry, recognized by his induction into the '' Modern ...
– drums (tracks 7–8, 10–12)
*Ralph McDonald – percussion (tracks 7–8, 10–11, 16)
*Phil Woods – saxophone solo (track 7)
*Valerie Simpson – background vocals (tracks 7–8)
*Ken Asher – organ (track 8)
*John Tropea – electric guitar (track 8)
*
Pheobe Snow – vocal background (track 8)
*
Patti Austin – vocal background (track 8)
*
Mike Brecker – saxophone solo (track 9)
*Eric Gale – electric guitar (track 10)
*Anthony Jackson – percussion (track 11),
contrabass guitar
A contrabass guitar is a low-register bass guitar with four, five or six strings. It is often called, simply, a ''six string bass guitar''. The ''five string bass guitar'' is rarely called a contrabass guitar, even though it typically has the sam ...
(track 12–14)
*Richard Tee – piano (track 11),
Fender Rhodes (track 12–14)
*
The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet originating in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in Southern gospel during the 1950s. Their name was chang ...
– vocal group (track 11)
*Dean Parks –
hi-string guitar (tracks 12–13)
*Michael Mainieri – vibes (tracks 12–13),
marimba
The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...
(track 12)
*Marcus Miller – bass guitar (track 13)
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Jeff Porcaro
Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (; April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work with the rock band Toto but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working o ...
– drums (track 13)
*Jess Levy – cello (track 13)
*Peter Gordon – French horn (track 13)
*Mark Rivera – alto sax (track 13)
*Rob Sabino – piano (track 14)
*Wells Christie –
Synclavier (track 14)
*The Harptones – background vocals (track 14)
*
Chikapa "Ray" Phiri – guitar (tracks 15–17)
*
Bakithi Kumalo
Bakithi Kumalo (; born 10 May 1956) is a South African bassist, composer, and vocalist. Kumalo is most known for his fretless bass playing on Paul Simon's 1986 album ''Graceland'', in particular the bass run on "You Can Call Me Al".
Biography and ...
– bass guitar (tracks 15–17)
*Isaac Misthali – drums (tracks 15–16)
*Youssou N'Dour – percussion (track 15)
*Babacar Faye – percussion (track 15)
*Assane Thiam – percussion (track 15)
*Earl Gardner – trumpet (track 15)
*
Leonard Pickett – tenor sax (track 15)
*Alex Foster – alto sax (track 15)
*
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo are a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of '' isicathamiya'' and '' mbube''. They became known internationally after singing with Paul Simon on his 1986 album '' Graceland'', and have won ...
– vocals (track 15)
*Rob Mounsey – synthesizer (track 16)
*
Adrian Belew
Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, he is noted for his unusual and impressionistic approach to ...
–
guitar synthesizer
A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities.
Overview
Today's guitar synths are direct descendants of 1970s devices from manufacturers (often in partnersh ...
(track 16)
*Ronald E. Cuber – bass sax (track 16), baritone sax (track 16)
*John Faddis – trumpet (track 16)
*Ronald E. Brecker – trumpet (track 16)
*Lewis Michael Soloff – trumpet (track 16)
*Alan Rubin – trumpet (track 16)
*David W. Bargeron – trombone (track 16)
*Kim Allan Cissel – trombone (track 16)
*Morris Goldberg – pennywhistle solo (track 16)
*Vusi Khumalo – drums (track 17)
*Makhaya Mahlangu – percussion (track 17)
*Demola Adepoju –
pedal steel guitar (track 17)
*
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly (January 19, 193 ...
– vocals (track 17)
;Technical
*Paul Simon – co-producer (tracks 1–14), producer (tracks 15–17), co-arrangements (track 16)
*
Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman (born August 16, 1944, Los Angeles, California) is an American record producer and songwriter. He has to date won three Grammy Awards. He earned his first producing the Steve Winwood song " Higher Love", and his second and third f ...
– co-producer (tracks 12–14)
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Roy Halee
Roy Decker Halee (born 1934) is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon & Garfunkel, both as a group and for their solo projects.
Early life
He grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy ...
– co-producer (tracks 1–2, 12–14), compilation assembler
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Phil Ramone
Philip Ramone (né Rabinowitz, January 5, 1934March 30, 2013) was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, who in 1958 co-founded A & R Recording, Inc., a recording studio with business pa ...
– co-producer (tracks 3, 5, 7–11)
*
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section is a group of American session musicians based in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals. One of the most prominent American studio house bands from the 1960s to the 1980s, these musicians, individually or a ...
– co-producer (4–6)
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...
– string arrangements (track 3)
*Dave Mathews – horn arrangements (track 7)
*Bob James – woodwind and string arrangements (track 9)
*
Dave Grusin
Robert David "Dave" Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record w ...
– horn arrangements (track 10)
*The Harptones – background vocal arrangements (track 14)
*George Delerue – orchestration (track 14)
*Chikapa "Ray" Phiri – co-arrangements (track 16)
*
Greg Calbi
Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey.
Biography
Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bishop ...
– mastering
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Robert Mapplethorpe – front cover photo
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Negotiations And Love Songs
Paul Simon compilation albums
1988 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Phil Ramone
Albums produced by Roy Halee
Warner Records compilation albums
Albums produced by Paul Simon