Looking at You, Looking at Me
Looking at You, Looking at Me is the seventh full-length studio recording from singer/songwriter/drummer/producer Narada Michael Walden. It was Walden's last album to be released by Atlantic Records and peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Top R&B albums chart.
The album's lead single "Black Boy" failed to chart. However, the cover of "Reach Out I'll Be There" reached No. 40 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.
Personnel
As listed on the back cover of the Looking at You, Looking at Me vinyl album:- Narada Michael Walden – lead vocals, drums, percussion, piano, Prophet-5, horn arrangements, timbales
- David Sancious – synthesizers, OB-X kalimba, Oberheim OB-X, keyboards, piano, OB-X harmonica licks, OB-X blues licks, OB-X harmonica
- Mitchell Froom – Moog bells, gun shot
- Frank Martin – synthesizers, Rhodes piano, string synthesizer, organ
- Mark Robertson – Mellotron
- Joaquin Lievano – guitars, guitar solo
- Preston Glass – acoustic guitars
- Corrado Rustici – finger snaps, guitars, 50s guitar and solo, acoustic guitars, electric guitars
- Randy Jackson – bass, finger snaps, bass solo
- Herman Jackson – finger snaps
- Sheila Escovedo – percussion
- Andy Narell – steel drums solo
- Marc Russo – alto saxophone, alto sax solo
- Jerry Hey – trumpet and flugelhorn, horn arrangements
- Chuck Findley – trumpet and flugelhorn
- Michael Gibbs – string arrangements
- Frankie Beverly and Maze – "Reach!" backing vocals
- Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals
- Kelly Kool – backing vocals, role of "Tina"
- John Lehman – backing vocals
- Myrna Matthews – backing vocals
- Carla Vaughn – backing vocals
- Jeffrey E. Cohen – "Chief of the S.F. Fire Department"
- Angela Bofill – lead vocals
- Jim Gilstrap, Randy Jackson, Kelly Kool, John Lehman, Myrna Matthews, Dwayne Simmons, Carla Vaughn and Lisa Walden – handclaps on "Shake It Off"
Production
- Narada Michael Walden – producer, arrangements
- David Frazer – engineer
- Ken Kessie – basic track engineer
- Maureen Droney – second engineer
- Wayne Lewis – second engineer
- Ray Pyle – second engineer
- Leslie Ann Jones – final editing
- Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk
- Norman Seeff – photography
- Lynn Dreese Breslin – art direction
- Gregory Digiovine – management
- Adam's Dad Management Co. – management