Light Up the Night was the final Brothers Johnson album to be produced by Quincy Jones. When Jones left A&M Records, he was contractually barred from having contact with the brothers.
This album includes the song “This Had to Be”, co-written and co-produced by Michael Jackson.
Light Up the Night marked the end of an era for the Brothers Johnson — it was the last of four albums that Quincy Jones produced for the Los Angeles siblings, and it was the last time a Brothers Johnson album was truly excellent instead of merely decent.
When Jones was producing the Brothers Johnson’s albums from 1976-1980, he gave them something their subsequent albums lacked — consistency.
Even though George and Lewis Johnson recorded some decent material after Light Up the Night, none of their post-Jones albums had the type of consistency that Jones gives this 1980 release. The album gets off to an impressive start with the major hit “Stomp!” (a definitive example of the smooth, sleek brand of funk that was termed sophisticated funk in the late ’70s and early ’80s), and the tracks that follow are equally memorable.
From the sleek sophisti-funk of “You Make Me Wanna Wiggle,” “This Had to Be” (which was co-written by Michael Jackson and employs him as a background vocalist), and the title song to the tender R&B/pop ballads “Treasure” and “All About the Heaven,” Light Up the Night is without a dull moment.
Side A
A1. Stomp! (6:24)
A2. Light Up The Night (3:46)
A3. You Make Me Wanna Wiggle (3:36)
A4. Treasure (4:09)
Side B
B1. This Had To Be (5:13)
B2. All About The Heaven (3:59)
B3. Smilin’ On Ya (3:46)
B4. Closer To The One That You Love (3:11)
B5. Celebrations (4:30)
The Brothers Johnson
- George Johnson – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals
- Louis Johnson – acoustic piano, Prophet-5, guitars, lead guitar, bass, bass solo, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Greg Phillinganes – synthesizers, acoustic piano, electric piano
- Rod Temperton – electric piano
- Steve Porcaro – synthesizers, synthesizer programming
- John Robinson – drums
- Paulinho da Costa – percussion, vocal percussion
- Richard Heath – percussion, lead and backing vocals
- Kim Hutchcroft – flute, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Larry Williams – flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, synthesizers
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – euphonium, trombone, slide trumpet
- Gary Grant – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Jerry Hey – trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn
- Merry Clayton – backing vocals
- Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals
- Susaye Greene-Brown – backing vocals
- Josie James – backing vocals
- Valerie Johnson – backing vocals
- Quincy Jones – backing vocals
- Scherrie Payne – backing vocals
- Alex Weir – lead and backing vocals
- Michael Jackson – backing vocals fills
Arrangements
- The Brothers Johnson – rhythm arrangements
- Quincy Jones – rhythm, synthesizer and BGV arrangements
- Rod Temperton – synthesizer arrangements, BGV arrangements
- Johnny Mandel – synthesizer arrangements
- Jerry Hey – horn and string arrangements
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – string conductor
- Michael Jackson – BGV arrangements
Production
- Quincy Jones – producer
- Bruce Swedien – recording, mixing
- Tim Gerrity – assistant engineer
- Ralph Osborn – assistant engineer
- Randy Pipes – assistant engineer
- John Van Nest – assistant engineer
- Bernie Grundman – mastering
- Chuck Beeson – art direction
- Glen Wexler – art direction, cover concept, photography
- Ed Eckstien – cover concept
- Kurt Triffet – illustration
- The Fitzgerald/Hartley Co. – direction
Genre: Soul, Funk
Format: LP, Vinyl
Label: A&M Records
Catalog# AMLK 63716
Vinyl: Goed (VG)
Cover: Goed (VG) (Gatefold)
Prijs: €10,00
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