Dance with My Father
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Production
- Executive Producer: Luther Vandross
- Producers: Luther Vandross, Nat Adderley Jr., Shep Crawford, Marcus Miller
- Re-mix Producers: Eddie F., Kay Gee, Darren Lighty
- Engineers: Ray Bardani, Paul J. Falcone (Vocals), Marcus Miller, Gabriel Varde, Stan Wallace, "You Can Ask" Giz
- Assistant Engineers: Carl Cyrius, Jason Dale, Michael McCoy, Daniel Milazzo, Claudius Mittendorfer, Flip Osman, Dave Perini, Matt Snedecor, Jason Stasium
- Tracking: Gabriel Varde
- Mixing: Ray Bardani, "You Can Ask" Giz
- Mastering: Herb Powers
Personnel
- Drums: Ivan Hampden
- Percussion: Bashiri Johnson, Skip Anderson
- Drum & Keyboard Programming: Ivan Hampden, Richard Marx, Marcus MillerMarcus MillerMarcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
, Rex Rideout, James Porte, Reed Vertelney - Bass: Reggie Hamilton, Byron Miller, Jerome Ramos
- Guitars: Phil Hamilton, Paul Jackson Jr., Brion James, Robbie Nevil, Victor Vega, Rick Watford, Jay Williams
- Keyboards: Nat Adderley, Jr.Nat Adderley, Jr.Nat Adderley, Jr. is an American pop and rhythm and blues music arranger and pianist who spent much of his music career arranging for Luther Vandross. The scion of a famed jazz family, his father Nat Adderley was a composer and jazz cornet and trumpet player, while his uncle Cannonball Adderley ...
, Skip Anderson, Chris James, Robbie Nevil - Harmonica: Stevie WonderStevie WonderStevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
- Backing Vocals: Tawatha Agee, Sharon Bryant, Cissy HoustonCissy HoustonEmily "Cissy" Houston is a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a very successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Wishbone Ash and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist...
, Michael J., Joyce James, Rick McDonald, Marcus Miller, Cindy Mizelle, RL, Candace Thomas, Fonzi ThorntonFonzi ThorntonFonzi Thornton, is an American singer, song writer/producer, stage performer and radio personality.Thornton has provided background vocals on albums by artists which include Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Chic, Sheena Easton, Mariah Carey, David Bowie, Michael Jackson,...
, Brenda White-King, James "D-Train" Williams - Additional Instrumentation by Shep Crawford
- Arranged by Luther Vandross, Reed Vertelney, Rex Rideout, James Porte, Marcus Miller, Ivan Hampden, Skip Anderson & Nat Adderley Jr.
- String Arrangements by Nat Adderley, Jr.
- Strings Contracted by Al Brown
- Concertmaster: Sanford Allen
- Sound Design: Jeff BovaJeff BovaJeff Bova is an American Grammy Award winning keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer. He has been active in music industry since the mid-1970s, contributing to dozens of recordings by significant mainstream artists like Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker,...
Charts
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
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| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums | 1 |