I'll Be Thinking of You
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I'll Be Thinking of You is a 1979 Gospel album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Andrae Crouch
Andrae Crouch
Andraé Crouch is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, record producer, and pastor.-Early years:Born Andraé Edward Crouch in San Francisco, California....

 which was released on the Elektra
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

 and Light
Light Records
Light Records was a gospel record label founded in 1966 by Ralph Carmichael as a joint venture with the Waco, Texas-based Word Records.-History:...

 record labels. The album won a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album has been awarded since 1991. An similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary, was awarded from 1978 to 1983...

.

Track listing

Musicians

  • Dorothy Ashby – Harp
  • Philip Bailey
    Philip Bailey
    Philip Irvin Bailey is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor, best known as one of the longtime members of Earth, Wind & Fire. Together with Verdine White, B. David Whitworth, and Ralph Johnson he forms the heart of the current EWF line-up on...

      – Vocals, Background Vocals, Soloist
  • Bea Carr – Background Vocals
  • Andraé Crouch
    Andrae Crouch
    Andraé Crouch is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, record producer, and pastor.-Early years:Born Andraé Edward Crouch in San Francisco, California....

      – Keyboards, Marimba, Vocals, Background Vocals, Soloist
  • Sandra Crouch – Percussion, Background Vocals
  • Marvin "Tuffy" Cummings – Background Vocals
  • James Felix – Background Vocals
  • Tommy Funderburk – Background Vocals
  • Tammie Gibson – Background Vocals
  • Jay Graydon
    Jay Graydon
    Jay Graydon is a Los Angeles songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, singer, producer, arranger, and recording engineer. He is the winner of two Grammy Awards with twelve Grammy nominations, among them the title "Producer of the Year" and "Best Engineered Recording". Jay Graydon has mastered many...

      – Guitar
  • Danniebelle Hall – Vocals, Soloist
  • Kathy Hazzard – Background Vocals
  • Rev. Patrick Henderson
    Rev. Patrick Henderson
    Reverend Patrick Henderson is a gospel keyboard player, songwriter and producer. He has written several songs in collaboration with Michael McDonald, playing on a number of his and the Doobie Brothers albums. Henderson has long associations with many other artists as well, including Leon Russell,...

      – Keyboards
  • Hadley Hockensmith – Bass, Guitar, Soloist
  • 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
  • Abraham Laboriel
    Abraham Laboriel
    Abraham Laboriel, Sr. is a Mexican bassist of Garifuna descent who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player Magazine described him as "the most widely used session bassist of our time". Laboriel is the father of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and of producer, songwriter, and...

      – Bass
  • Bill Maxwell – Percussion, Drums
  • Marty McCall – Background Vocals
  • Dorothy Ashby – Background Vocals
  • Alfred McCrary – Background Vocals
  • Charity McCrary – Trumpet
  • Howard McCrary – Keyboards, Background Vocals, Synthesizer Bass
  • Linda McCrary – Background Vocals
  • David Miner
    David Miner (musician)
    David Miner , sometimes credited as David Minor, is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of Grace Slick's The Great Society in the 1960s. He actually co-founded The Great Society along with Jerry, Darby, and Grace Slick as well as Bard Du Pont, in the sense...

      – Bass
  • Perry Morgan – Background Vocals
  • Kristle Murden – Vocals, Background Vocals, Soloist
  • Glen Myerscough – Saxophone
  • Kenneth Nash – Percussion
  • 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
  • Lance Ong – Synthesizer
  • Dean Parks
    Dean Parks
    Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.-Albums:Dean was member of The North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan...

      – Guitar
  • Billy Preston
    Billy Preston
    William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...

      – Keyboards
  • Harlan Rogers – Keyboards
  • Phyllis Saint James – Background Vocals
  • Joe Sample
    Joe Sample
    Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample is an American pianist, keyboard player and composer.He is one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply The Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 .- Biography :Sample began playing the piano...

      – Keyboards
  • David Shields  – Bass
  • Leland Sklar
    Leland Sklar
    Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...

      – Bass
  • Howard Smith – Vocals, Background Vocals, Soloist
  • Steve Tavaglione – Saxophone
  • Rodney Wayne – Background Vocals
  • David E. Williams – Guitar
  • 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...

      – Harmonica

Production

  • Andraé Crouch - Arranger, Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Mixing
  • Bob Cotton - Engineer, Mixing
  • John Guess - Engineer
  • Peter Haden - Assistant Engineer
  • Al Schmidt Jr - Assistant Engineer
  • Bill Maxwell – Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Mixing
  • Howard McCrary – Vocal Arrangement
  • Glenn Meadows – Digital Mastering, Reissue Mastering
  • Glen Myerscough – Horn Arrangements
  • Ross Pallone – Assistant Engineer
  • Ken Perry - Mastering
  • Harlan Rogers – Arranger
  • Gordon Shryock – Engineer, Mixing
  • Lennart Sjöholm – String Arrangements


Charts

Album – Billboard
Year Chart Position
1980 Black Albums 46
1980 Black Singles 69
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