Lionel Richie (album)

Track listing

In popular culture

Personnel

Musicians

• Lionel Richie – lead vocals, vocal arrangements, backing vocals, acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, rhythm arrangements
• Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes, Roland Jupiter 8, Minimoog, arrangements
• Clarence McDonald – Fender Rhodes
• Michael Lang – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes
• David Cochrane – Prophet 5, electric guitar, synthesizer bass, backing vocals, arrangements, acoustic piano, bass guitar, saxophone solo
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizer, vocoder
• Bill Payne – Fender Rhodes
• Paul Jackson Jr. – electric guitar
• Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar
• Thomas Dolby - Synthesizer, Programming and backing vocals on “You are”
• Joe Walsh – guitar solo
• Richie Zito – guitar solo
• Darrell Jones – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Tim May – acoustic guitar
• Nathan Watts – bass guitar
• Joe Chemay – bass guitar
• Nathan East – bass guitar
• John Robinson – drums
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums
• Paul Leim – drums
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion
• Rick Shlosser – percussion
• Ray Brown – double bass
• Buell Neidlinger – double bass
• Arni Egilsson – double bass
• Morty Corb – double bass
• Gene Page – arrangements
• Harry Bluestone – concertmaster
• James Anthony Carmichael – arrangements, string arrangements, horn arrangements, rhythm arrangements, celeste
• Howard Kenney – backing vocals
• Richard Marx – backing vocals
• Deborah Thomas – backing vocals
• Jimmy Connors – backing vocals
• Kenny Rogers – backing vocals, BGV arrangement
• Kin Vassy – backing vocals
• Terry Williams – backing vocals

  Horns, strings and woodwinds

• Louise Di Tullo – flute
• Art Maebe – French horn
• Richard Perissi – French horn
• Henry Sigismonti – French horn
• Jim Atkinson – French horn
• David Duke – French horn
• Brian O'Connor – French horn
• William Green – saxophone
• Ernie Watts – saxophone
• Lew McCreary – trombone
• Bill Reichenbach, Jr. – trombone
• Gary Grant – trumpet
• Jerry Hey – trumpet
• Walter Johnson – trumpet
• Warren Luening – trumpet
• Bob Findley – trumpet
• Don Ashworth – woodwinds
• Gene Cipriano – woodwinds
• Gary Herbig – woodwinds, saxophone
• Larry Williams – woodwinds
• Gayle Levant – harp
• Jesse Ehrlich – cello
• Armand Kaproff – cello
• Paula Hochhalter – cello
• Dennis Karmazyn – cello
• Arni Egilsson - double bass
• Buell Neidlinger – double bass
• Ray Brown – double bass
• Morty Corb – double bass
• Alan DeVeritch – viola
• Allan Harshman – viola
• Virginia Majewski – viola
• Gareth Nuttycombe – viola
• Bonnie Douglas – violin
• Assa Drori – violin
• Endre Granat – violin
• Joy Lyle – violin
• Donald Palmer – violin
• Henry Roth – violin
• Sheldon Sanov – violin
• Jack Shulman – violin
• Paul Shure – violin
• Mari Tsumura-Botnick – violin
• Charles Veal, Jr. – violin
• Rollice Dale – strings
• Henry Ferber – strings
• Ronald Folsom – strings
• William Henderson – strings
• William Kurasch – strings
• Erno Neufeld – strings
• Nathan Ross - strings
• Myron Sandler – strings
• David Schwartz – strings
• Fred Seykora – strings
• David Speltz – strings
• Mari Tsumura – strings
• Tibor Zelig – strings

  Production

• Producers – James Anthony Carmichael and Lionel Richie
• Production Assistant – Brenda Harvey-Richie
• Recorded and Mixed by Calvin Harris
• Second Recording Engineer – Jim Cassell
• Second Mix Engineers – Michael Johnson, Fred Law and Stephan Smith.
• Additional Mixing – Jane Clark
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M Studios.
• Creative Assistant – Rita Leigh
• Art Direction – Johnny Lee
• Photography – David Alexander

  Charts

Weekly charts

Certifications and sales