Change of Season
Change of Season is the fourteenth studio album by American pop music duo Daryl Hall & John Oates. The album was released in October 1990 by Arista Records. The lead single "So Close" peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was their last Top 40 hit, while the second single "Don't Hold Back Your Love" just missed the Top 40, reaching #41. It was their second and final album for Arista.
Track listing
Produced by Daryl Hall, John Oates and T-Bone Wolk, except where notedProduction
- Pete Moshay – production coordinator
- David Barratt – production coordinator
- Shari Sutcliffe – production coordinator
- Prudence Whittlesey – art direction, photography
- Champion Entertainment Organization, Inc. – management
- Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk
- Mel Terpos – guitar technician
- Ross Hogarth – engineer
- Paul Lani – mixing
- Larry Alexander – recording, mixing
- Joe Pirrera – mixing
- Bob Cadway – engineer, mixing
- Kevin Doyle – engineer, mixing
- Greg Dromin – engineer
- David Knight – engineer
- Bill Molina – engineer
- Tom Nellen – engineer
- Charley Pollard – engineer
- Craig Portelis – engineer
- Andrew Raffi – engineer
- Duane Seykora – engineer
- Brian Malouf – mixing
- Pete Moshay – assistant engineer, engineer
- Dan Hetzel – assistant engineer
- Thomas R. Yezzi – assistant engineer
- Pat McDougal – assistant engineer
Personnel
Hall & Oates
- Daryl Hall – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic piano, synthesizers, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola, tambourine
- John Oates – backing vocals, lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bongos, clay drum
Guest musicians
- Bob Mayo – keyboards, Hammond B3 organ, backing vocals
- Mike Klvana – additional synthesizer programming
- Pete Moshay – programming, sequencing, tambourine
- Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – Wurlitzer electric piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, percussion, tambourine, backing vocals
- Jimmy Rip – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Mike Braun – drums, percussion
- Jimmy Bralower – Akai MPC60 drum programming
- Charlie DeChant – saxophone
- Benmont Tench – keyboards
- Dean Kraus – keyboards
- Rich Tancredi – keyboards
- David Tyson – keyboards, bass
- Danny Kortchmar – guitars
- Waddy Wachtel – guitars
- Bob Cadway – guitars
- Buzz Feiten – guitars
- Michael Thompson – guitars
- David A. Stewart – guitars
- Randy Jackson – bass
- Doug Stegmeyer – bass
- Bob Glaub – bass
- Kenny Aronoff – drums, percussion
- Joey Franco – drums
- Pat Mastelotto – drums
- Jesse Levy – cello
- Olivia Koppell – viola
- Regis Iandorio – violin
- Eileen Ivers – violin
- Arif Mardin – string arrangements and conductor
- Susie Davis – backing vocals
- Wendy Fraser – backing vocals
- Portia Griffin – backing vocals
- Mary Cassidy – backing vocals
- Marcella Detroit – backing vocals
- Siobhan Fahey – backing vocals
- Toni Halliday – backing vocals
- Nan Vernon – backing vocals
Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
| Australian | 137 |
| Japanese Albums | 13 |