Introducing Sparks
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Credits

  • All songs written by Ron Mael
    Ron Mael
    Ronald David Mael , is an American musician and songwriter. He and his younger brother Russell, make up the pop duo Sparks.Ron Mael was born in Culver City, California. Ron plays keyboard and writes most of the songs for Sparks...

     & Russell Mael
    Russell Mael
    Russell Mael is an American singer and songwriter who, with his older brother Ron, is in the band Sparks....

  • All lyrics ©1977 Ackee Music,Inc. (ASCAP) Used by permission. All rights reserved.

  • Lead & Background Vocals: Russell Mael
    Russell Mael
    Russell Mael is an American singer and songwriter who, with his older brother Ron, is in the band Sparks....

  • Musicians: Ben Benay, Alan Broadbent
    Alan Broadbent
    Alan Broadbent, MNZM , is a jazz pianist, arranger and composer best known for his work with artists such as Woody Herman, Diane Schuur, Chet Baker, Irene Kral, Sheila Jordan, Charlie Haden, Warne Marsh, Bud Shank, and many others.Broadbent studied piano and music theory in his own country, but in...

    , David Foster
    David Foster
    David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...

    , Ed Greene, Ron Mael
    Ron Mael
    Ronald David Mael , is an American musician and songwriter. He and his younger brother Russell, make up the pop duo Sparks.Ron Mael was born in Culver City, California. Ron plays keyboard and writes most of the songs for Sparks...

    , 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...

    , Mike Porcaro
    Mike Porcaro
    Mike Porcaro is best noted as the bass player in the Grammy Award winning band, Toto.He is the middle brother of Toto members Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro...

    , Reinie Press, 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...

    , Thom Rotella
  • Background Vocals: Tom Bahler
    Ron Hicklin Singers
    The Ron Hicklin Singers were a group of Los Angeles studio singers contracted and organized by Ron Hicklin. They are most famously known as the real singers behind the background vocals on The Partridge Family recordings....

    , Al Capps, Stan Farber, Jimmy Haas, Ron Hicklin
    Ron Hicklin Singers
    The Ron Hicklin Singers were a group of Los Angeles studio singers contracted and organized by Ron Hicklin. They are most famously known as the real singers behind the background vocals on The Partridge Family recordings....

    , Mark Piscitelli, Nick Uhrig

  • Recorded at Larrabee Sound, Los Angeles
  • Engineer: Lenny Roberts
  • Assistant Engineers: Betsy Banghart and Randy Tomanaga
  • Arranged by Al Capps and Ron Mael
    Ron Mael
    Ronald David Mael , is an American musician and songwriter. He and his younger brother Russell, make up the pop duo Sparks.Ron Mael was born in Culver City, California. Ron plays keyboard and writes most of the songs for Sparks...

  • Mastered at Allen Zentz
  • Management: John Hewlett
    John Hewlett
    John Hewlett was a prominent biblical scholar in nineteenth-century Britain.Hewlett was born in Chetnole, Dorset to Timothy Hewlett. After becoming a minister, he was admitted as a sizar to Magdalene College, Cambridge. After graduating, he established a school in Shackelford, Surrey...

  • Licensed from Island Records
    Island Records
    Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

     Limited, London
  • Photography: Bob Seidemann
    Bob Seidemann
    Bob Seidemann is an American graphic artist and photographer best known for the creation of several album covers and portraits of musicians in the 1960s and 1970s.Seidemann first gained notoriety in 1967 for a photographic interpretation of the Pietà...

  • Design: John Kehe, Tom Steele

Release details

Country Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 1977 CBS Records Vinyl CBS 82284
2007 Lil' Beethoven Records CD LBRCDRON Slipcase with Ron Mael on the front
2007 Lil' Beethoven Records CD LBRCDRUS Slipcase with Russell Mael on the front
United States 1977 Columbia Records Vinyl PC 34901
Netherlands 1977 CBS Records Vinyl CBS 82284
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