Michael McDonald - If That's What It Takes FLAC

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Credits

• Arranged By [Horn Arrangements] – Jerry Hey
• Arranged By [String Arrangements] – Marty Paich
• Art Direction, Design – Jeff Adamoff
• Bass – Willie Weeks
• Drums – Steve Gadd
• Engineer [Basic Track Engineer] – Donn Landee (tracks: A2), Jim Isaacson (tracks: A5, B1, B3), Lee Herschberg (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2, B4, B5)
• Engineer [Mastering Engineer] – Bobby Hata
• Engineer [Overdub Engineer] – Donn Landee, Jim Isaacson, Mark Linett
• Engineer [Overdub Engineer], Engineer [Mixdown Engineer] – Lee Herschberg
• Engineer [Second Engineer] – Ken Deane, Steve McManus
• Guitar – Dean Parks
• Management [Direction] – Irving Azoff
• Percussion – Bobby LaKind, Lenny Castro
• Piano – Greg Phillinganes
• Producer – Lenny Waronker, Ted Templeman
• Saxophone [Solo] – Edgar Winter
• Technician [Keyboard Technician] – Paul Medeiros
• Written-By – Harry Garfield
• Written-By, Backing Vocals – Ed Sanford
• Written-By, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Synthesizer, Backing Vocals – Michael McDonald

• Arranged By [Horns] – Jerry Hey
• Arranged By [Strings] – Marty Paich
• Art Direction [Original Album], Design [Original Album] – Jeff Adamoff
• Coordinator [Production Coordinator] – Joan Parker, Kathy Walker, Vicki Fortson
• Engineer [Basic Track] – Donn Landee (tracks: 2), Jim Isaacson (tracks: 5, 6, 8), Lee Herschberg (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10)
• Engineer [Mixdown Engineer] – Lee Herschberg
• Engineer [Overdubs] – Donn Landee, Jim Isaacson, Lee Herschberg, Mark Linett
• Engineer [Second Engineer] – Ken Deane, Steve McManus
• Management [Direction] – Front Line Management, Irving Azoff
• Mastered By [CDD Pre-Mastering] – WCI Record Group
• Mastered By [LP] – Bobby Hata
• Photography By – Jim Shea
• Producer – Lenny Waronker, Ted Templeman
• Synthesizer [Additional] – Michael Boddicker
• Technician [Keyboard Technician] – Paul Medeiros

Notes

3rd W.G. CD pressing of this album - has the "PDO HANOVER" hub text, only used for earliest PDO pressings in 1986

Recorded at Warner Bros. Recording Studio, N. Hollywood, CA and Sunset Sound, Hollywood.
Strings recorded at Oceanway Recording, Hollywood
LP Mastered at Warner Bros. Recording Studio

Publishers:
1. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP/Edzactly Publishing BMI
2. ©1982 Yellow Dog Music, Inc. ASCAP
3. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP/Chappell & Co. Inc./Sailmaker Music ASCAP
4. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP/Milk Money Music ASCAP
5. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP
6. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP/Random Notes/April Music Inc. ASCAP
7. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP/Sailors Dancing Songs ASCAP
8. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP/McWalker Music/Coop Music ASCAP
9. ©1975 Uncle Josh's Emporium/Genevieve Music/World Song Pub. Inc. ASCAP
10. ©1982 Genevieve Music ASCAP

© 1982 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
℗ 1982 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.
Printed in West Germany
Manufactured by PolyGram in Hanover, West Germany [legacy text]Originally released by Warner Bros. Records, 1982

Companies

• Remastered At – Original Masteringworks
• Pressed By – Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd.
• Manufactured By – MFSL, Inc.
• Distributed By – MFSL, Inc.
• Licensed From – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Published By – Genevieve Music
• Published By – Edzactly Publishing
• Published By – Yellow Dog Music, Inc.
• Published By – Chappell & Co., Inc.
• Published By – Sailmaker Music
• Published By – Milk Money Music
• Published By – Random Notes
• Published By – April Music Inc.
• Published By – Sailors Dancing Songs
• Published By – McWalker Music
• Published By – Coop Music
• Published By – Uncle Josh's Song Emporium
• Published By – World Song Publishing Inc.
• Pressed By – PDO, Germany
• Recorded At – Warner Bros. Recording Studios
• Recorded At – Sunset Sound
• Recorded At – Ocean Way Recording
• Glass Mastered At – Polygram, Hanover, West Germany – 2893 239

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