1983 studio album by George Duke
1983 studio album by George Duke
Guardian of the Light Released 1983 Studio Le Gonks West (Hollywood, CA ) The Complex (Los Angeles, CA ) Ocean Way Recording (Los Angeles, CA ) Genre Label Epic Producer George Duke
Dream On Guardian of the Light Rendezvous
"Reach Out" "Celebrate" "Born to Love You"
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Guardian of the Light keyboardist and record producer George Duke . It was released in 1983 through Epic Records . Recording sessions for the album took place in Los Angeles at The Complex, Le Gonks West and Ocean Way Recording . Duke used a variety of keyboard instruments , such as Rhodes electric piano , Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 , Korg Polysix , ARP Odyssey , Clavitar Solo, Minimoog , melodeon, melodica , and also Sennheiser and Roland vocoders , and LinnDrum machine . The album features contributions from various musicians, including vocalists Jeffrey Osborne and Lynn Davis , guitarists Michael Sembello and Charles Fearing , bassists Louis Johnson and Byron Miller, drummers John Robinson and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler , percussionist Paulinho da Costa , trumpeters Gary Grant and Jerry Hey , trombonist Lew McCreary, conductor George Del Barrio with a musical ensemble of string instrument players.
The album peaked at number 147 on the Billboard 200Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. Guardian of the Light spawned three singles : "Reach Out", "Celebrate" and "Born to Love You". Its lead single, "Reach Out" reached number 59 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Track listing [ ]
All tracks are written by George Duke .
1. "Overture" 1:38 2. "Light" 3:23 3. "Shane" 3:14 4. "Born to Love You" 3:10 5. "Silly Fightin'" 5:06 6. "You (Are the Light)" 4:15 7. "The War Fugue Interlude" 1:13 8. "Reach Out" 4:57 9. "Give Me Your Love" 4:19 10. "Stand" 2:14 11. "Soon" 2:43 12. "Celebrate" 3:54 13. "Fly Away" 4:01
Personnel [ ] George Duke – vocals (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13) , lead vocals (tracks: 4, 5, 9) , backing vocals (tracks: 5, 9) , acoustic piano (tracks: 1-6, 8, 13) , Sennheiser vocoder (tracks: 2, 3) , Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (tracks: 2, 3, 7-9, 12, 13) , Korg Polysix (tracks: 2, 10, 12) , Rhodes electric piano (tracks: 3, 4, 6, 9, 12) , melodica (track 4) , ARP Odyssey and handclaps (track 8) , melodeon (track 9) , LinnDrum and Minimoog (tracks: 10, 12) , Clavitar Solo and Roland vocoder (track 13) , liner notes , producer
Jeffrey Osborne – backing vocals (tracks: 4, 5) , vocals (track 10) Lynn Davis – backing vocals (tracks: 4, 5, 9) , handclaps (track 8) Portia Griffin – backing vocals (tracks: 4, 5) , handclaps (track 8)
Patti Austin – backing vocals (track 9) Erik Zobler – vocals (track 13)
Michael Sembello – guitar (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11) Charles Fearing – guitar (tracks: 2, 3) Johnny McGhee – guitar (track 12)
Louis Johnson – guitar (track 5) , bass (tracks: 1-3, 5, 8, 9, 13) Byron Lee Miller – bass (tracks: 4, 6)
John Robinson – drums (tracks: 1-4, 8, 9) Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums (tracks: 5, 6, 13) Paulinho da Costa – percussion (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6) Steve Forman – tabla (track 11)
Larry Bunker – timpani (track 13) Rachelle Fields – handclaps (track 8)
Larry Williams – tenor saxophone (tracks: 1, 6, 8) Lew McCreary – trombone (tracks: 1, 6, 8)
Gary Grant – trumpet (track 1, 8, 13) , flugelhorn (track 6) , piccolo trumpet (track 13)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (track 1, 8, 13) , flugelhorn (track 6) , piccolo trumpet (track 13) Craig Harris – vocoder programming (tracks: 2, 3)
Paul Shure – violin , concertmaster (tracks: 1, 2, 6-8, 11)
Charles Veal Jr. – violin , concertmaster (track 13)
Sherrill Coltrin Baptist – violin
Marcia Van Dyke – violin Israel Baker – violin Endre Granat – violin Franklin Foster – violin
Arnold Belnick – violin
Bonnie Douglas – violin
Brenton Banks – violin
Ronald Folsom – violin
Reginald Hill – violin
Sheldon Sanov – violin
Robert Sushel – violin
Kenneth Yerke – violin
Murray Adler – violin
Mari Botnick – violin
Henry Ferber – violin
Dorothy Wade – violin
Karen Jones – violin
Nathan Ross – violin
Carol Shive – violin
Assa Drori – violin
Bob Sanov – violin
David Schwartz – viola Virginia Majewski – viola
Barbara Thomason – viola
Allan Harshman – viola
Denyse Buffum – viola
Rollice Dale – viola
Myer Bello – viola
Raymond Kelley – cello Daniel Rothmuller – cello
Douglas L. Davis – cello
Paula Hochhalter – cello
Julianna Buffum – cello
Dennis Karmazyn – cello
Earl Madison – cello
Nils Oliver – cello
Jan Kelley – cello
George Del Barrio – conducting (tracks: 1, 2, 6-8, 11)
Tommy Vicari – engineering
Mark Ettel – assistant recording engineer (tracks: 1-11)
Nick Spigel – assistant recording engineer
Peter Chaikin – additional recording (track 12)
Danny Kopelson – assistant mixing engineer (tracks: 1-11, 13)
Wally Buck – assistant mixing engineer (tracks: 1-11, 13)
Steve Schmidt – assistant mixing engineer (track 10)
Brian Gardner – masteringHerb Cohen Management – management
Covers [ ] Born To Love You was also covered by Phil Perry in 1998. Chart history [ ] References [ ] External links [ ] hide Studio albums
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