Breakin' Away (album)

Charts and awards

Album

Charting singles

Track listing

Personnel

• Al Jarreau – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm arrangements, vocal arrangements
• Jay Graydon – electric guitar, synthesizer programming, rhythm arrangements, vocal arrangements
• Steve Lukather – electric guitar
• Dean Parks – electric guitar
• Tom Canning – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, rhythm arrangements, vocal arrangements
• David Foster – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, string arrangements
• Michael Omartian – synthesizers, Fender Rhodes
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizer programming, synthesizers
• J. Peter Robinson – synthesizers
• Larry Williams – synthesizer solo
• George Duke – Fender Rhodes
• Milcho Leviev – acoustic piano, rhythm arrangements
• Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• Bob Zimmitti – percussion
• Billy Byers – string arrangements
• Frank DeCaro – string contractor
• Tom Scott – horns
• Lon Price – alto saxophone
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
• Jerry Hey – flugelhorn, trumpet, horn arrangements
• Chuck Findley – trumpet
• Richard Page – backing vocals
• Steve George – backing vocals
• Bill Champlin – backing vocals

  Production

• Producer, Mixing – Jay Graydon
• Associate Producer – Tom Canning
• Engineer – Joe Bogan
• Second Engineer – Debbie Thompson
• Basic tracks recorded at Dawnbreaker Studios.
• Basic track recording for "Breakin' Away" by Larry Brown at Pasha Music ; Second Engineers – Mikey Davis and Csaba Petocz.
• Strings recorded by Humberto Gatica at Sunset Sound.
• Overdubs and mixing at Garden Rake Studios.
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M Studios.
• Art Direction and Design – Christine Sauers
• Photography – Susan Jarreau