''Patti Austin'' is the fifth studio album by American R&B singer Patti Austin, released on March 5, 1984 by

Qwest Records Qwest Records is the American record label started by Quincy Jones in 1980 as a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, and owned by Warner Music Group, although Jones was still under contract with A&M Records through 1981. George Benson's 198 ...

Track listing

Side one #"It's Gonna Be Special" ( Clif Magness,

Glen Ballard Basil Glen Ballard Jr. (born May 1, 1953) is an American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer. He is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's 1995 album '' Jagged Little Pill'', which won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Alb ...

) – 4:17 #"Rhythm of the Street" (Jeffrey Cohen,

Preston Glass Preston Glass (born January 9, 1960) is an American musician, songwriter and producer. Glass is the winner of six BMI Awards. He has also worked several famous artists such as Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Kenny G, Natalie Cole and ...

, Narada Michael Walden) – 4:00 #"All Behind Us Now" (

David Pack David Robert Pack (born July 15, 1952) is an American singer and musician who co-founded the rock band Ambrosia in the 1970s. Career As performer Pack was co-founder, guitarist and main vocalist for the band Ambrosia. His collected works as a ...

) – 4:59 #"Hot! In the Flames of Love" (Cohen, Glass, Walden) – 3:59 #"Change Your Attitude" (Magness, Ballard) – 3:41 Side two #

"Shoot The Moon" (Ballard, Magness) – 3:35 #"I've Got My Heart Set on You" (David Bryant, Diane Warren) – 4:12 #"Fine Fine Fella (Got to Have You)" ( Ollie E. Brown, Attala Zane Giles,

Phillip Ingram Phillip Ingram (born 1958) is an American musician. He is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of the Motown Group "Switch" and is the younger brother of James Ingram. Biography Ingram was raised in Akron, Ohio. He came from a mus ...

) – 4:34 #"Starstruck" (Glass, Dwayne Simmons, Walden) – 4:28 #"Any Way You Can" (Pack, Michael McDonald) – 4:31

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the ''Patti Austin'' liner notes. * PattI Austin – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 6) * John Van Tongeren – keyboards (1, 6), synthesizers (1), additional keyboards (5), sequencing (6), bass (6) *

– acoustic piano (2, 4), backing vocals (2, 4, 9) *

David Sancious David Sancious (born November 30, 1953) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on ''Human Touch'' (1992), '' Trac ...

– keyboards (2, 4, 9), synthesizers (2, 4, 9) *

Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...

– keyboards (3), keyboard arrangements (3) *

– synthesizers (3), guitar (3), keyboard arrangements (3), rhythm arrangements (3), synth solo (10) *

Tommy Faragher Thomas Edward Faragher is an American producer, composer, songwriter, singer, and arranger. He is originally from Redlands, California. Performer Faragher started his career as a singer and keyboardist with his family, who formed a group called ...

– keyboards (5), sequencing (5), bass (5) * John Barnes – keyboards (7), synthesizers (7) *

Rex Salas Rex Salas (born March 16, 1962) is a Grammy and Emmy Award nominated American record producer, songwriter, musical director, and music arranger. Best known in recent years for his work as the musical director for Janet Jackson on several of h ...

– acoustic piano (8), synthesizers (8) *

Victor Feldman Victor Stanley Feldman (7 April 1934 – 12 May 1987) was an English jazz musician who played mainly piano, vibraphone, and percussion. He began performing professionally during childhood, eventually earning acclaim in the UK jazz scene as ...

– grand piano (10), Fender Rhodes (10), piano arrangements (10) * Michael McDonald – Fender Rhodes (10) * Clif Magness – guitar (1, 5, 6), rhythm arrangements (1), arrangements (5, 6), percussion (6) *

Corrado Rustici Corrado Rustici (born 1957) is an Italian musician, songwriter and producer. Recording career Rustici was a founder member of the Naples-based progressive rock group Cervello. The band recorded the album '' Melos'' in 1973, with Rustici on guitar ...

– guitar (2, 4, 9) * Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (5) *

Tommy Organ Thomas LeRoy Organ, Jr. (born 22 February 1963), known professionally as Tommy Organ or Tommy "O", is an American musician, songwriter and producer. The son of Thomas LeRoy Organ, Sr. (1940 - 1966 Musician, Army Veteran) and Dorothy Louise Rende ...

– lead guitar solo (5) * Zane Giles – backing vocals (7, 8), guitar (8), BGV arrangements (8) * Josef Parson – guitar (8) * Randy Jackson – bass (2, 4, 9), Pro One bass (2), Simmons drums (2) * Nathan East – bass (3) * Cornelius Mims – bass (7, 8) *

Chuck Domanico Charles Louis Domanico (January 20, 1944 – October 17, 2002), better known as Chuck Domanico, was an American jazz bassist who played double bass and bass guitar on the West Coast jazz scene. Domanico was born in Chicago. He settled i ...

– bass (10) * Narada Michael Walden – drums (2, 4, 9), percussion (4), OB-Xa bass (9), Simmons drums (9) * John Robinson – drums (3, 10) * Ollie E. Brown – drums (7, 8), percussion (7, 8), Simmons drums (7), rhythm arrangements (7, 8), BGV arrangements (7, 8), special effects (8), synthesizer arrangements (8) * Frank Martin – DMX sequencing (9) * Paulinho da Costa – percussion (1, 3) * Armando Peraza – cuica (2) * Raul Rekow – congas (2) * Orestes Vilato – cowbell (2),

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(2) * Steve Forman – percussion (6) * Kim Hutchcroft – tenor saxophone (1) *

Larry Williams Larry Williams (born Lawrence Eugene Williams, a.k.a. Lawrence Edward Williams; May 10, 1935 – January 7, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams ...

– alto saxophone (1), synthesizers (8) * Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone (3) *

Marc Russo Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. History In 1977, guitarist Robben Ford, for his first solo album, recruited keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Ri ...

– horns (4), sax solo (4) *

Bill Reichenbach Jr. William Frank Reichenbach Jr. (born November 30, 1949) is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He is the son of Bill Reichenbach, who was the drummer for Charlie Byrd from 1962 to 1973. He is best known as a session musician for television, ...

– trombone (7) * Gary Grant – trumpet (1, 7) *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'', '' Rock with You'' ...

– trumpet (1, 7), horn arrangements (1, 3, 7), additional keyboard arrangements (5), synthesizer arrangements (8), flugelhorn (10) *

– rhythm arrangements (1), arrangements (5, 6) *

Marty Paich Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kento ...

– string arrangements and conductor (3, 10) * Angela Bofill – backing vocals (2, 4, 9) * Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals (2, 4, 9) * Myrna Matthews – backing vocals (2, 4, 9) * Sheree Brown – backing vocals (7, 8) *

– backing vocals (7, 8), BGV arrangements (7, 8) * Josie James – backing vocals (7) * Kevin T. Jones – backing vocals (7) * Paulette McWilliams – backing vocals (7, 8) *

Siedah Garrett Deborah Christine "Siedah" Garrett (born June 24, 1960) is an American singer and songwriter who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, the Pointer Sisters, Brand N ...

– backing vocals (8)

Production

* Executive Producers – Quincy Jones and Ed Eckstine * Producers –

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 ...

(Track 1); Narada Michael Walden (Tracks 2, 4 & 9);

(Tracks 3 & 10); Clif Magness (Track 5);

(Tracks 5 & 6); Ollie E. Brown (Tracks 7 & 8). * Engineers –

Tommy Vicari Thomas Vicari (born August 24, 1948) is an American recording engineer, mixing engineer, record producer and scoring mixer known for his work with Quincy Jones, Gino Vannelli, Nicholas Britell, Thomas Newman, Prince, George Duke and Barbra Strei ...

(Track 1); David Frazer (Tracks 2, 4 & 9); Tom Perry (Track 3); Michael Verdick (Tracks 3 & 10); Ian Eales (Tracks 5 & 6); Steve Halquist (Tracks 7 & 8);

Al Schmitt Albert Harry Schmitt (April 17, 1930 – April 26, 2021) was an American recording engineer and record producer. He won twenty Grammy Awards for his work with Henry Mancini, Steely Dan, George Benson, Toto, Natalie Cole, Quincy Jones, and other ...

(Track 10). * Assistant Engineers – Mitch Gibson (Tracks 1, 5 & 6); Barbara Rooney (Track 1); John Nowland (Tracks 2, 4 & 9); Paul Erickson (Tracks 5 & 6); Mike Ross (Tracks 5 & 6); David Marquette (Track 6). * Mixing –

(Track 1); Michael Verdick (Tracks 3 & 10); Ian Eales (Tracks 5 & 6); Ollie E. Brown and Steve Halquist (Tracks 7 & 8). * Recorded and Mixed at Ameraycan Studios, Hollywood Sound Recorders, Soundcastle, Weddington Studios and

Sunset Sound Sunset, also known as sundown, is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon due to Earth's rotation. As viewed from everywhere on Earth (except the North and South poles), the equinox Sun sets due west at the moment of both the sprin ...

(Hollywood, CA); The Complex (Los Angeles, CA);

The Automatt The Automatt was a sound recording studio in San Francisco, California, promoted for its early mix automation system. During its eight active years, 1976 to 1984, it was one of the top recording studios in the region. The Automatt was founded by p ...

(San Francisco, CA); Channel Recording (Burbank, CA). * Strings on Tracks 3 & 10 recorded at

Ocean Way Recording Ocean Way Recording was a series of recording studios established by recording engineer and producer Allen Sides with locations in Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee, and Saint Barthélemy. Ocean Way Recording no longer operates record ...

(Los Angeles, CA). * Editing – Ian Eales, Ed Eckstine and Clif Magness. * Additional Technical Supervision – Ed Eckstine * Originally mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc (North Hollywood, CA). * Remastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound (New York, NY). * Design – Jeri McManus and Mark Larsen * Hand Tinting – Dennis Keeley * Photography – Gary Heery

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1984 albums Patti Austin albums Albums arranged by Marty Paich Albums produced by Glen Ballard Albums produced by Quincy Jones Albums produced by Narada Michael Walden Qwest Records albums Dance-rock albums