Personnel

• Bass guitar, backing vocals – Robert "Kool" Bell
• Drums, Backing Vocals – George Brown
• Guitar – Charles Smith
  Claydes Charles Smith
  Claydes Charles Smith was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s...
  
  
• Tenor saxophone, OB-X synthesizer
  Oberheim OB-X
  The Oberheim OB-X is an analog polyphonic synthesizer. It was the first Oberheim synthesizer that was created with internal prewired modules and not with the bulky SEM modules. Because of this, it was more functional for live performance, and therefore more portable. It was introduced in 1979 and...
  
  , backing vocals – Ronald Bell
  Ronald Bell (musician)
  Ronald Bell, also known by his Arabic name Khalis Bayyan is an American saxophonist, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer and singer, who was a founding member of the band, Kool & the Gang...
  
  
• Keyboards, alto saxophone – Curtis Williams
• Lead and backing vocals – James "J.T." Taylor
• Percussion – Jimmy Maelen
• Keyboards – Eumir Deodato
  Eumir Deodato
  Eumir Deodato is a Brazilian pianist, composer, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music.Mainly,...
  
  
• Alto saxophone – Steve Greenfield
• Trombone, backing vocals – Clifford Adams
• Trumpet, backing vocals – Michael Ray, Robert Mickens
• Handclaps – Dennis Thomas
• Strings – Kermit Moore

• Engineer – Cliff Hodsdon, Jim Bonnefond
• Assistant engineers – Barbara Ivone, Nelson Ayres
• Mixed by – Jim Bonnefond, Gabe Vigorito, Eumir Deodato
• Mastered by – Jose Rodriguez, Gabe Vigorito
• Producer – Eumir Deodato
• Co-producer – Kool & The Gang

• Design – Mo Ström
• Art direction – Bill Levy, Bob Heimall
• Cover concept and artwork by – Quintet Associates