In the Heart is the seventeenth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang

Kool & the Gang

Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...

, released in 1983. The album became a hit and brought a return to the Billboard charts for the band. The hit love song, "Joanna

Joanna (song)

"Joanna" is a song by the R&B/funk group Kool & the Gang. Released in 1984 from the album, In the Heart, the song was an immediate hit, peaking at number two on the singles charts in both the US and the UK. It topped the R&B chart in the US....

", soared to number two on the charts in the U.S. and UK, and hit number one on the U.S. R&B chart. "Straight Ahead" was a top twenty hit in the UK, while "Tonight" did the same in the U.S.

Track listing

Personnel

• Bass – Robert "Kool" Bell
• Drums – George Brown
• Guitar – Charles Smith
• 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 "Khalis" Bell
• Lead and backing vocals – James "J.T." Taylor
• Trombone; backing vocals – Clifford Adams
• Keyboards; alto saxophone; Memory Moog
  Memorymoog
  The Memorymoog is a polyphonic electronic music synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 1981 to 1983, the last polyphonic synthesizer to be released by Moog Music before the company was sold to management and renamed Moog Electronics...
  
  , Mini Moog
  Minimoog
  The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog. It was released in 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. , and production was stopped in 1981. It was re-designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Minimoog Voyager.The Minimoog was designed in response to the use of...
  
  , and OB-X
  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...
  
  synthesizers, backing vocals – Curtis "Fitz" Williams
• Alto saxophone – Dennis "D.T." Thomas
• Trumpet – Michael Ray, Robert "Spike" Mickens

• Horns arranged by – Kool & The Gang
• Strings arranged by – Greg Poree
• Concertmaster – Gene Orloff
• Contractor (Strings) – Joe Malin

• Chief engineer - Jim Bonnefond
• Engineers – Cliff Hodsdon, Nelson Ayres
• Mixed By – Gabe Vigorito, Ronald Bell, Jim Bonnefond
• Mastered by – Jose Rodriguez
• Producer – Jim Bonnefond, Ronald Bell, Kool & The Gang