Baby It's Me
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Baby It's Me is a 1977
1977 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1977.-January–February:*January 1 – The Clash headline the gala opening of the London music club, The Roxy....

 album released by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...

 on the Motown label. The album was produced by producer Richard Perry
Richard Perry
Richard Perry is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982...

. The singles released from the LP include "Gettin' Ready for Love", "You Got It", and "All Night Lover".

Track listing

Side A:
  1. "Gettin' Ready for Love" (Franne Golde
    Franne Golde
    Franne Golde is a songwriter, musician, singer and writer. Her songs have appeared on more than 100 million records worldwideFranne has received BMI awards for singles with The Pussycat Dolls , Randy Travis’s "A Man Ain't Made of Stone", The Kinleys' "Somebody's Out There Watching" from the Touched...

    , Tom Snow) - 2:45
  2. "You Got It" (Linda Laurie, Jerry Ragovoy
    Jerry Ragovoy
    Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy was an American songwriter and record producer.His best-known composition "Time Is on My Side" was made famous by The Rolling Stones, although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas...

    ) - 3:55
  3. "Baby It's Me" (Don Dunn, Chuck Smith) - 3:09
  4. "Too Shy to Say" (Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder
    Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

    ) - 3:15
  5. "Your Love Is So Good for Me" (Ken Peterson) - 4:14


Side B:
  1. "Top of the World" (Tom Snow) - 3:06
  2. "All Night Lover" (Jerry Ragovoy, Lenny Roberts) - 3:33
  3. "Confide in Me" (Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....

    , Stanley Schwartz) - 3:32
  4. "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
    +'Justments
    -Reception:Legal tussles between Withers and Sussex prevented further recording sessions until Columbia signed the singer a year later. Columbia bought Withers' back catalog, re-releasing his earlier hit records, but +'Justments was not reissued on CD until 2010.The album cover shows Withers...

    " (Bill Withers
    Bill Withers
    William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands"...

    ) - 3:56
  5. "Come In From The Rain" (Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager
    Carole Bayer Sager
    Carole Bayer Sager is an American lyricist, songwriter, singer, and painter.-Introduction:Born in New York City, Sager graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech...

    ) - 3:50

Personnel

  • Diana Ross - Vocals
  • James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films...

     - Keyboards
  • Tom Scott
    Tom Scott (musician)
    Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...

     - Saxophone
  • Bud Shank - Flute
  • David Foster - Horn
  • Clydie King
    Clydie King
    Clydie Crittendon is an American singer, best known for her session work as a backing vocalist....

     - Vocals
  • Gene Page
    Gene Page
    Eugene Edgar "Gene" Page, Jr. was an influential conductor, composer, arranger and record producer most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s....

     - Strings
  • Tom Snow - Piano
  • Bobbye Hall
    Bobbye Hall
    Bobbye Jean Hall Porter is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 22 songs that reached the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, six of those reaching #1.-Early career:...

     - Percussion
  • Jack Ashford
    Jack Ashford
    Jack Ashford , known to his friends as Jashford, is an African-American musician, widely known as the percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the 1960s and early 1970s. Ashford is most famous for playing the tambourine on hundreds of Motown recordings...

     - Percussion
  • Ben Benay - Guitar
  • Patti Brooks - Vocals
  • Ollie E. Brown
    Ollie E. Brown
    Ollie E. Brown is an American drummer, percussionist and record producer. A prolific session musician, Brown has performed on over a hundred albums in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Brown was also half of the American dance-pop duo Ollie & Jerry, which had a Top 10 hit with "Breakin'.....

     - Drums
  • Lenny Castro
    Lenny Castro
    Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son...

      - Percussion
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn - Bass
  • Scott Edwards - Bass
  • Chuck Findley
    Chuck Findley
    Chuck Findley is an American session musician. Most widely-known as a trumpet player, he also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone...

     - Horn
  • Bryan Garofalo - Bass
  • Ed Greene
    Ed Greene (musician)
    Ed Greene is an American drummer and session musician.An early recording in 1971 has him as a member of the Donald Byrd Group, together with Thurman Green Harold Land Bobby Hutcherson Joe Sample and Wilton Felder , among others....

     - Drums
  • Richard Hewson - Strings
  • Jim Horn
    Jim Horn
    Jim Horn is an American saxophonist and woodwind player. He was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio...

     - Horn
  • David Hungate
    David Hungate
    David Hungate is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto...

     - Bass
  • Bobby Kimball
    Bobby Kimball
    Robert Troy "Bobby" Kimball is an American singer, best known as the longtime frontman of the rock band Toto.- Early life:...

     - Vocals
  • Becky Lewis - Vocals
  • Steve Lukather
    Steve Lukather
    Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...

     - Guitar
  • Ira Newborn
    Ira Newborn
    Ira Newborn is an American musician and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks....

     - Guitar, Harmonica
  • Del Newman - Strings
  • Michael Omartian
    Michael Omartian
    Michael Omartian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in over 350,000,000 albums and CD’s sold worldwide, as a producer, arranger, artist or musician, during a career that has spanned over 38 years...

     - Keyboards
  • David Paich
    David Paich
    David Frank Paich is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich...

     - Keyboards, Vocals
  • Jeff Porcaro
    Jeff Porcaro
    Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...

     - Drums
  • Ray Parker, Jr.
    Ray Parker, Jr.
    Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...

     - Bass, Guitar
  • Ken Peterson - Synthesizer
  • Petsye Powell - Vocals
  • Lee Ritenour
    Lee Ritenour
    Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. One of his most popular songs was the smash hit, “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a...

     - Guitar
  • Stanley Schwartz - Piano
  • Rick Shlosser
    Rick Shlosser
    Rick Shlosser is a graduate of the Berklee School of Music, has been a member ofVan Morrison's band and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He's also been a varied sessions drummer.-Discography:* Andy Pratt - Records Are Like Life...

     - Drums
  • Richie Zito - Guitar
  • Sherlie Matthews
    Sherlie Matthews
    Sherlie Matthews is an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a backing vocalist for Pop, R&B and Rock groups from the mid 1960s to the present time.-Early life:...

    - Vocals

Album

Chart Position
Pop Albums 18
Black Albums 7
UK albums chart Did not chart

Singles

Single Chart Position
Gettin' Ready For Love Pop Singles 27
Gettin' Ready For Love Black Singles 16
Gettin' Ready For Love US AC chart 8
Gettin' Ready For Love UK Singles Chart 23
Your Love Is So Good For Me Pop Singles 49
Your Love Is So Good For Me Black Singles 16
Your Love Is So Good For Me/Top of the World Club Play Singles 15
Top of the World UK Single Chart
You Got It Pop Singles 49
You Got It Black Singles 39
You Got It US AC chart 9

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