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Norman Connors - This Is Your Life

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Norman Connors & Starship Orchestra, The - This Is Your Life

Label:
Catalog#:
AB-4177
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
US
Released:
1977
Genre:
Funk / Soul
Style:
Soul, Disco

Tracklist

A1   Stella 3:17
    Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - James Robinson
  Soloist [Guitar] - Lee Ritenour
A2   This Is Your Life 4:13
    Arranged By, Conductor - Paul Riser
A3   Wouldn't You Like To See 3:40
    Bass - Ben Atkins*
A4   Listen 3:51
    Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - James Robinson
A5   Say You Love Me 4:36
    Bongos - Eddie (Bongo) Brown*
  Producer - McKinley Jackson , Norman Connors
B1   Captain Connors 3:16
    Arranged By, Conductor - Dwight Brewster , Wah Wah Watson* , Norman Connors
  Soloist [Electric Piano] - Bobby Lyle
  Soloist [Mini-moog] - Billy McCoy
B2   You Make Me Feel Brand New 5:45
B3   Butterfly 4:58
    Arranged By, Conductor - Jacques Burvick
B4   The Creator 7:58
    Arranged By, Conductor - Norman Connors
  Soloist [Piano] - Bobby Lyle
  Soloist [Saxophone, Tenor] - Pharoah Sanders

Credits

Artwork By [Additional Design] - Davis, Canzani
Artwork By [Art Direction] - Donn Davenport
Bass - Eddie Watkins*
Concertmaster [Strings] - Harry Bluestone
Congas, Bongos, Cymbal [Paiste Cymbals], Gong [Paiste Gongs], Percussion - Kenneth Nash
Drums - James Gadson
Drums, Percussion, Timpani, Lead Vocals - Norman Connors
Engineer [Assistant] - Bob Bullock , Bob Moore (2) , Jackson Schwartz , Jim Sintetos , Stillman Kelly
Engineer [Recording And Mixing] - Richard Heenan*
French Horn - James Atkinson* , Sidney Muldrow
Guitar - Charles Fearing , David T. Walker , Jay Graydon , Lee Ritenour , Wah Wah Watson*
Keyboards - Billy McCoy , Bobby Lyle , Jacques Burvick , Richard Cummings , Richard Tee , Ronnie Coleman*
Lead Vocals [Featured Lead Vocalist] - Miss Eleanore Mills*
Mastered By - John Golden
Orchestrated By, Arranged By, Conductor [Except As Indicated] - McKinley Jackson
Percussion - Petro Bass
Photography - Ron Harris
Photography [Inside Sleeve] - Mel Dixon
Producer [For Norman Connors Productions, Inc.] - Norman Connors
Saxophone [Alto, Soprano] - Gary Bartz (tracks: A1 to B3)
Saxophone [Soprano] - Ralph Buzzy Jones*
Saxophone [Tenor] - Pharoah Sanders
Synthesizer [Oberheim] - Mike Boddicker*
Trombone - Benny Powell , Garnett Brown , George Bohanon , George Thacher* , Lew McCreary
Trumpet - Charles Moore , Nolan Smith, Jr.* , Oscar Brashear , Ray Brown (2) , Shunzo Ono*
Vibraphone [Vibes], Marimba, Bells [Orchestra] - Elmira Collins
Vocals [Vocal Coloring And Background], Other [Vocal Production And Consultation] - Jean Carn
Woodwind - David Ii* , Earle Dumler* , Ernie Watts , Fred Jackson, Jr.* , Terry Harrington , Bill Green*

Notes

Directions in music by Norman Connors.
Recorded at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, California.
Mastered at Kendun.
Norman Connors plays Gretsch drums exclusively, Latin percussion instruments and Paiste cymbals and gongs.

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