Crazy for You is the 8th studio album by Earl Klugh, released in 1981. This is the first album which Klugh produced by himself. The album received two Grammy nominations at the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983; for Best Pop Instrumental Performance,Atlanta Magazine- Sep 2004 – Page "Earl Klugh is very upfront about the changes in jazz and instrumental music since he first broke onto the scene in the mid ... on Blue Note, including the classics " Dreams Come True," "Finger Painting" and "Crazy For You," his first gold album.Contemporary Black Biography: Pendergast, Tom Pendergast – 2007 Page 108 " Crazy for You, EMI, 1981."Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music Julia Rubiner – 1993 "In his few years with Blue Note, Klugh produced several albums, including Finger Paintings, Living Inside Your Love, and his first gold record, Crazy for You." and for Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording, the latter shared jointly by Klugh, keyboardist Ronnie Foster, and string arranger Clare Fischer.Grammy Awards for 1982. Awesome80s.com. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
Track listing All songs written by Earl Klugh. "I'm Ready for Your Love" – 3:20 "Soft Stuff (And Other Sweet Delights)" – 5:09 "Twinkle" – 5:21 "Broadway Ramble" – 4:30 "Calypso Getaway" – 3:14 "The Rainmaker" – 5:15 "Balladina" – 4:19 "Crazy for You" – 4:04
Personnel
Musicians Earl Klugh – acoustic nylon guitars, 12-string guitar (2, 5), clavinet (4), electric nylon guitars (4) Sylvester Rivers – electric piano (1) Greg Phillinganes – synthesizers (1, 3, 8), electric piano (3) Ronnie Foster – electric piano (2, 5, 7, 8), vocoder (2), acoustic piano (8) Darryl Dybka – ARP 16-Voice Electronic Piano (4) Onaje Allan Gumbs – electric piano (6) Ray Parker Jr. – electric guitar (1), bass (1), drums (1) Phil Upchurch – electric guitar (2, 5, 7, 8) Perry Hughes – electric guitar (4) Donald Griffin – electric guitar (5, 8) Hiram Bullock – electric guitar (6) Nathan East – bass (2, 5) Louis Johnson – bass (3) Mickie Roquemore – synth bass (4) Gary King – bass (6) Charles Meeks – bass (7, 8) Ricky Lawson – drums (2, 5) Raymond Pounds – drums (3) Gene Dunlap – drums (4) Brian Brake – drums (6) James Bradley Jr. – drums (7, 8) Jack Ashford – tambourine (1) Paulinho da Costa – percussion (2, 3, 5, 8) Manolo Badrena – percussion (6) Sammy Figueroa – percussion (6) Hubie Crawford – harmonica (4)
Music arrangements Greg Phillinganes – synthesizer arrangements (1), arrangements (3) Earl Klugh – rhythm arrangements (2, 5 7) Phil Upchurch – rhythm arrangements (2) Roland Wilson – rhythm arrangements (2) The band – arrangements (4, 8) David Matthews – rhythm arrangements (6) Ronnie Foster – rhythm arrangements (7)
Orchestra (tracks 2 & 5–8) Patrick Williams – arrangements and conductor (2) Johnny Mandel – arrangements and conductor (5) David Matthews – arrangements and conductor (6) Clare Fischer – arrangements and conductor (7, 8) David Nadien – concertmaster (New York) Gerald Vinci – concertmaster (Los Angeles) Horns George Young – saxophone solos Sam Burtis, Jim Pugh and Dave Taylor – trombone Jon Faddis, John Gatchell, Jon Shepley and Lew Soloff – trumpet, flugelhorn Strings Stella Castellucci – harp Lamar Alsop, Marilyn Baker, Dixie Blackstone, Harry Bluestone, Stuart Canin, Norman Carr, Harry Cykman, Assa Drori, Robert Dubow, Barry Finclair, Ronald Folsom, David Frisna, Pam Gates, Pamela Goldsmith, Anne Goodman, Joseph Goodman, Janice Gower, Allan Harshman, Reginald Hill, Bill Hybel, Karen Jones, Dennis Karmazyn, Ray Kelley, Myra Kestenbaum, Louis Kiveman, Raphael Kramer, Norman Leonard, Ronald Leonard, Jesse Levy, Charles Libove, Robert Lipsett, Richard Locker, Charles McCracken, Marvin Morgenstern, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Stanley Plummer, Max Pollikoff, Jerome Reisler, Nathan Ross, Sheldon Sanov, Victor Sazer, David Schwartz, Haim Shtrum, Richard Sortomme, Robert Sushel, Mari Tsumura-Botnick, Dorothy Wade, Miwako Watanabe, Herschel Wise, Helaine Wittenberg, John Wittenberg, Harold Wolf and Fred Zlotkin – string players
Production Earl Klugh – producer, mixing Roland Wilson – co-producer, mixing Michael H. Brauer – engineer, mixing Don Hahn – engineer Jim Cassell – assistant engineer Andy Hoffman – assistant engineer Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York City, New York) John Kosh – art direction, design Carol Friedman – photography Block-Kewley Management – management
Charts + Album – Billboard Year Chart Position 1981 Jazz Albums 2 1981 R&B Albums 14 1981 The Billboard 200 53
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