Personnel

• David Alexander – photography
• Bill Barnum – supervisor
• H.B. Barnum – director
• Dara Lynn Bernard – chorus
• Roy Bittan
  Roy Bittan
  Roy Bittan is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974...
  
   – piano
• Michael Boddicker
  Michael Boddicker
  Michael J. Boddicker , is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. Three times N.A.R.A.S. Most Valuable Player "Synthesizer" and MVP Emeritus, he was awarded a Grammy as a songwriter for Imagination from Flashdance in 1984...
  
   – programming, vocoder, vocoder programming, polymoog
• Larry Bunker
  Larry Bunker
  Lawrence Benjamin "Larry" Bunker was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist. He also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.-Biography:...
  
   – drums
• Bill Champlin
  Bill Champlin
  William Bradford "Bill" Champlin is an American singer, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger, producer, and songwriter. His performance work is principally associated with the bands Chicago and the Sons of Champlin...
  
   – background vocals
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums
• Dennis Cosby – conductor
• Steve Crimmel – assistant engineer
• Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme ", the last of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore...
  
   – chorus
• Patrick Gene Crotty, Jr. – chorus
• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
   – percussion
• Michael Davis – chorus
• Don Dorsey – programming, synclavier, synclavier programming
• Matt Forger – assistant engineer, technical director
• David Foster
  David Foster
  David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
  
   – synthesizer, arranger, rhythm arrangements, synthesizer arrangements
• Steve George – background vocals
• Gary Grant – horn
• Debbie Green – chorus
• Dave Grusin
  Dave Grusin
  David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys...
  
   – synthesizer, fender rhodes, rhythm arrangements, synthesizer arrangements
• Howard Hewett – background vocals
• Jerry Hey
  Jerry Hey
  Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Thriller and the distinctive flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit Longer....
  
   – horn
• James Ingram
  James Ingram
  James Ingram is an American soul musician. He is best known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards...
  
   – background vocals, chorus, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
• Phillip Ingram – background vocals
• Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
   – chorus
• Louis Johnson
  Louis Johnson (bassist)
  Louis Johnson is an American bass guitarist.Johnson is best known for his group The Brothers Johnson and his session playing on several hit albums of the 1970s and '80s including the "best selling album of all time" Thriller...
  
   – bass
• Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
   – synthesizer, programming, chorus, producer, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
• Jeff Lancaster – art direction, design
• Peggy Lipton Jones – chorus
• Kenny Loggins
  Kenny Loggins
  During the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he was referred to as, King of the Movie Soundtrack.He began with "I'm Alright" , "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" from Caddyshack...
  
   – chorus
• Steve Lukather
  Steve Lukather
  Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...
  
   – guitar
• Johnny Mandel
  Johnny Mandel
  Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
  
   – string arrangements
• Harvey Mason, Sr. – drums, drum arrangements
• Heather Mason – chorus
• Greg Mathieson – programming
• Michael McDonald
  Michael McDonald (singer)
  Michael McDonald is a five-time Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter. McDonald is known for a soulful baritone singing style and a multi-octave range. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan...
  
   – chorus
• Bill Meyers – synthesizer, rhythm arrangements
• Michael Omartian
  Michael Omartian
  Michael Omartian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in over 350,000,000 albums and CD’s sold worldwide, as a producer, arranger, artist or musician, during a career that has spanned over 38 years...
  
   – string arrangements
• Richard Page – background vocals, vocal arrangement
• David Paich
  David Paich
  David Frank Paich is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich...
  
   – synthesizer, piano, keyboards, rhythm arrangements, synthesizer arrangements
• Ken Perry – mastering
• Greg Phillinganes
  Greg Phillinganes
  Greg Phillinganes is an active session keyboardist in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Cass Technical High School, Detroit Michigan....
  
   – synthesizer, chorus, synclavier, synthesizer bass, rhythm arrangements, portasound
• Jeff Porcaro
  Jeff Porcaro
  Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
  
   – drums
• Steve Porcaro
  Steve Porcaro
  Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto....
  
   – drums, programming, producer
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – horn
• John "J.R." Robinson
  John Robinson (drummer)
  John Robinson is an American drummer and session musician...
  
   – drums
• Brenda Russell
  Brenda Russell
  Brenda Russell is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, dance, jazz and adult contemporary...
  
   – chorus
• Cruz Baca Sembello – background vocals
• Michael Sembello
  Michael Sembello
  Michael Sembello is an American musician and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Career:Sembello was born and raised in Philadelphia. He studied with jazz great Pat Martino and began his career as a professional musician by becoming a session musician, working increasingly with...
  
   – guitar, background vocals, vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements
• Guy Spells – conductor
• Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
  
   – guitar
• Donna Summer – vocals, background vocals, chorus
• Bruce Swedien – engineer, mixing
• Rod Temperton
  Rod Temperton
  Rodney Lynn "Rod" Temperton is an English songwriter, record producer and musician most famous for writing a number of songs performed by Michael Jackson, including the title track of Jackson's Thriller, the biggest-selling album of all time.-Biography:As Temperton remembers music was in his bones...
  
   – vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangements, synthesizer arrangements
• John VanNest – assistant engineer
• Larraine Walton – chorus
• Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
   – chorus
• Ernie Watts
  Ernie Watts
  Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...
  
   – alto & baritone saxophone
• Chris Whorf – art direction, design
• Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
   – chorus
• Faith D. Wong – chorus

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