Title | Writer(s) |
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1. | "Never Givin' Up" | Tom Canning, Al Jarreau | 3:56 |
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2. | "Gimme What You Got" | Tom Canning, Al Jarreau | 3:43 |
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3. | "Love Is Real" | Tom Canning, Jarreau, Tom Kellock | 4:23 |
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4. | "Alonzo" | Jarreau | 5:25 |
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5. | "(If I Could Only) Change Your Mind" | Tom Canning, Allee Willis | 4:16 |
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6. | "Spain (I Can Recall)" | Chick Corea, Jarreau, Artie Maren | 6:31 |
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7. | "Distracted" | Jarreau | 5:51 |
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8. | "Your Sweet Love" | Tom Canning, Jarreau, Tom Kellock | 4:13 |
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9. | "(A Rhyme) This Time" | Jarreau, Earl Klugh | 3:42 |
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Chart (1980)
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Peak position
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U.S. Billboard 200
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27
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R&B
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6
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Jazz
|
1
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Year End Chart (1980)
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Peak[4]
|
Jazz
|
40
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Year
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Song
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Peak chart positions[5]
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US Pop
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US R&B
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1980
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"Distracted"
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-
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61
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"Gimmie What You Got"
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-
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63
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"Never Givin' Up"
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102
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26
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"Never Givin' Up" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male in 1981, Jarreau's first nomination in the R&B field. It lost to Jarreau's Warner Bros. labelmate George Benson for the Give Me the Night album,[6] who had recently undergone a similar change in sound.[7]
- Al Jarreau – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 3, 5, 7), vocal percussion (1, 4), rhythm arrangements (1-4, 7, 8, 9)
- Greg Mathieson – rhythm arrangements (1), acoustic piano (1), string synthesizer (1, 3, 4, 5)
- Jay Graydon – synthesizer programming (1, 2, 3, 5, 8), electric guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8), rhythm arrangements (2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9)
- Tom Canning – rhythm arrangements (1, 2, 5, 8), Fender Rhodes (2, 4, 5, 8), acoustic piano (3, 5, 8), bells (8)
- David Foster – acoustic piano (2), Fender Rhodes (3, 9)
- Michael Omartian – string synthesizer (2, 8)
- Larry Williams – synthesizers (3, 6, 8), Fender Rhodes (6)
- Steve George – synthesizers (7)
- George Duke – Fender Rhodes (7)
- Oscar Castro-Neves – acoustic guitar (1)
- Dean Parks – electric guitar (3, 5)
- Earl Klugh – acoustic guitar (9), rhythm arrangements (9)
- Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar
- Ralph Humphrey – drums (1, 4, 5, 9), percussion (4)
- Carlos Vega – drums (2, 3)
- Steve Gadd – drums (6, 7, 8)
- Earl Lon Price – saxophones (7)
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (3, 7)
- Chuck Findley – trumpet (3, 7)
- Jerry Hey – horn arrangements (1, 3, 7), flugelhorn (1, 2, 7, 8), trumpet (3, 7)
- Tom Kellock – rhythm arrangements (3)
- Les Thompson – harmonica solo (5)
- Producer – Jay Graydon
- Engineers – Joe Bogan and Jay Graydon
- Second Engineer – Debbie Thompson
- Recorded at Dawnbreaker Studios (San Fernando, CA).
- Remixed and Overdubbed at Garden Rake Studios (Sherman Oaks, CA).
- Mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M Mastering Studios (Los Angeles, CA).
- Art Direction – Richard Seireeni
- Cover Photography – Richard Avedon
- Sleeve Photography – Michael Rice and Susan Jarreau
- Still Life – Harry Mittman