Patti LaBelle - The Spirit's in It ( 1981 )

 

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"The Spirit's in It"	Cecil Womack Kenneth Gamble	Womack Gamble	5:50
2.	"Here You Come Again"	Barry Mann Cynthia Weil	James "Budd" Ellison Gamble	3:02
3.	"Love Lives"	Womack Leon Huff	Gamble & Huff	2:52
4.	"I Fell in Love Without Warning"	Huff	Huff	3:12
5.	"Boats Against the Current"	Eric Carmen	Ellison Gamble	4:04
6.	"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"	Huey "Piano" Smith	Huff	4:25
7.	"Family"	J.H. Smith	Ellison Gamble	4:22
8.	"Shoot Him on Sight"	Cynthia Biggs Dexter Wansel	Biggs Wansel	5:31
9.	"Over the Rainbow"	E.Y. "Yip" Harburg Harold Arlen	Ellison Gamble	3:46

Personnel

• Patti LaBelle – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 4-9)
• Joel Bryant – keyboards (1)
• Lenny Pakula – organ (1, 3, 4)
• Dexter Wansel – arrangements (1, 8), synthesizers (8)
• James Budd Ellison – keyboards (2, 5, 7, 9), arrangements (2, 5, 7, 9), backing vocals (5, 7)
• Philip Woo – keyboards (2, 9)
• Leon A. Huff – acoustic piano (3, 4, 6), Fender Rhodes (3, 4), arrangements (3, 4, 6),
•  backing vocals (6), BGV arrangements (6)
• Nathaniel Wilkie – keyboards (5, 7), acoustic piano (5, 7), organ (5, 7), synthesizers (5, 7)
• Cynthia Biggs – acoustic piano (8)
• Dennis Harris – guitar (1)
• Cecil Womack – guitar (1, 3, 4, 6), backing vocals (6)
• Edward Levon Batts – guitar (2, 9), backing vocals (2, 7)
• Herb Smith – guitar (2, 5, 7-9), backing vocals (5, 7, 9)
• Bobby Bennett – acoustic guitar (6)
• Marc Rubin – guitar (8)
• Roy Smith – guitar (8)
• Jimmy Williams – bass (1-5, 9)
• Derrick Graves – bass (6)
• Idress "Skeets" Young – bass (8)
• Quinton Joseph – drums (1, 3, 4, 6)
• John Ingram – drums (5, 7, 9), backing vocals (5, 7, 9)
• Clifford "Pete" Rudd – drums (8)
• Vincent Montana Jr. – orchestral bells (3), vibraphone (3)
• Miguel Fuentes – percussion (5, 7, 8)
• Michael Mee – alto saxophone (1)
• Ralph Olson – alto saxophone (1)
• Bob Malach – tenor saxophone (1)
• Michael Pedicin Jr. – tenor saxophone (1)
• Willie Williams – soprano saxophone (5), tenor saxophone (5)
• Sam Peake – saxophone (9)
• Larry Gittins – trumpet (1)
• Bobby Rush – harmonica (6)
• MFSB – horns (2, 8, 9), strings (2, 3, 8, 9)
• Jack Faith – arrangements (3)
• Carl Helm – backing vocals (2, 7, 9)
• Reggie Workman – backing vocals (2, 9)
• Kenneth Gamble – backing vocals (5, 7)

Handclaps on "Family"

• Miguel Fuentes
• Stacey Todd Holt
• Norman Maxon
• Fred Murphy
• Vivian Reed
• Idress "Skeets" Young