Personnel

• Curtis Stigers: vocals, tenor
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
   and alto sax
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  
• Angel Rogers, Alfie Silas, Táta Vega
  Tata Vega
  Táta Vega is an American vocalist whose career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres.-Early life:...
  
  , Siedah Garrett
  Siedah Garrett
  Siedah Garrett is an American songwriter and singer.-Biography:She appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.She performed "One Man Woman" on Quincy Jones' Grammy-Award winning "Back on the Block."...
  
  , Sarah Taylor, Alexandria Brown, Pattie Brooks, Andrae Crouch, Pattie Howard
  Pattie Howard
  Pattie Howard born Francine Patience Howard is an American Gospel and R&B singer-songwriter, producer, and vocal arranger. She is a 30 years+ music industry veteran who has released two albums with major record labels, RCA Records and Light Records...
  
  , Perry Morgan, Sandra Crouch, Rose Banks, Howard McCrary, Jackie Gouche, Geary Faggett: backing vocals
• Danny Kortchmar, Mike Landau
  Michael Landau
  Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...
  
  , Buzz Feiten
  Buzz Feiten
  Howard "Buzz" Feiten is a North American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and session musician.He is best known as a lead and rhythm electric guitarist, and for having patented a unique, scientifically designed tuning system which re-configures its stringboard / neck for more accurate tonality...
  
  , Michael Thompson: guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
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• David Paich
  David Paich
  David Frank Paich is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich...
  
  , Glen Ballard: keyboards
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  
• Randy Kerber: keyboards and piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Bill Payne: organ)
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  
• T. M. Stevens, Abraham Laboriel, Neil Steubenhaus: bass
  Bass (instrument)
  Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
  
  
• Jeff Porcaro
  Jeff Porcaro
  Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
  
  , John Robinson, Mike Baird: drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
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• Paulinho da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
  : percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Ralph Morrison, Reg Hill, Rene Mandel, Helen Nightingale, Frederick Seykora, Richard Altenbach, Roland Kato, Carole Kleister-Castillo, Lisa Johnson, Paula Hochhalter: strings
  String instrument
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
  
   on tracks 2 and 3; arranged by Jerry Hey
• Ralph Morrison, Frederick Seykora, Margaret Wooten, Roland Kato, Lisa Johnson, Kenneth Yerks, Karen Jones, Ronald Folsom, Christine Ermacoff, Carrie Holzman-Little, Sheldon Sanov, Michael Markman: strings on tracks 9 and 11; arranged by Jerry Hey
• Horns arranged by Jerry Hey
• Charts by Orion Crawford

Production

• Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 arranged and produced by Glen Ballard
  Glen Ballard
  Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...
  
  ; recorded by Francis Buckley at Studio Ultimo (Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
  Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
  
  ) with assistance from Barry Rudolph; additional recording at Westlake Audio & Capitol Studios
  Capitol Records
  Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
  
   (both in Los Angeles); engineering assistance by Rob Hart and Peter Doell; mixed by Glen Ballard and Francis Buckley.
• Tracks 1, 4, 9 and 11 arranged and produced by Danny Kortchmar
  Danny Kortchmar
  Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar is a guitarist, session musician, and songwriter. Kortchmar's work with singer-songwriters such as David Crosby, Carole King, Graham Nash, Carly Simon and James Taylor helped define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s...
  
  ; recorded by Rob Jacobs with assistance from Nick DiDia and Rail Jon Rogut; mixed by Rob Jacobs and Nick DiDia with assistance from Greg Goldman and Marty Brumbach.
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman.

Charts and certifications