L Is for Lover

L Is for Lover
Studio album by Al Jarreau
Released	September 8, 1986
Recorded	Skyline Studios, New York,1986
Genre	R&B, jazz, pop, soul
Length	45:01
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Nile Rodgers
Al Jarreau chronology
In London (1985) L Is for Lover (1986) Heart's Horizon (1988)

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L is for Lover is a studio album by Al Jarreau, released in 1986. Nile Rodgers, the album's producer, called it "the best thing I ever made that didn't sell" in the July 27, 2015, issue of New York magazine. "The theme from Moonlighting was on it, but Al and I thought it wasn't cool enough. So we took it off the album. That becomes a hit, and the album sank. Shows what I know." The single version of the Moonlighting theme, originally included on the show's 1987 soundtrack album, was added to Friday Music's 2011 reissue of L Is for Lover along with a remix of the album's title track and the 12-inch extended mix of "Tell Me What I Gotta Do." The Rodgers-produced version of Moonlighting's theme song was used in the opening and closing credits of each episode of the show's fourth ('87-'88) and fifth ('88-'89) seasons.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Tell Me What I Gotta Do"	Jay Graydon, Mike Himelstein, Tom Keane	4:00
2.	"L Is for Lover"	David Gamson, Green Gartside	5:25
3.	"Says"	Al Jarreau, Philippe Saisse	3:51
4.	"Pleasure"	Robert Brookins, Tony Haynes	4:00
5.	"Golden Girl"	Jimmy Felber	5:50
6.	"Across the Midnight Sky"	Jay Graydon, Al Jarreau, Richard Page	5:35
7.	"(We Got) Telepathy"	Paul Bliss, Ian Prince	4:27
8.	"Give a Little More Lovin'"	Jonathan Butler, Simon May	5:12
9.	"No Ordinary Romance"	Michael Gregory	3:31
10.	"Real Tight"	Mark Mueller, Robbie Nevil, John Van Tongeren, Brock Walsh	3:10
Total length:			45:01

Personnel

• Al Jarreau – lead vocals, backing vocals (2, 7, 10), vocoder (10)
• Nile Rodgers – guitar (1-10), keyboard bass (1, 2), keyboards (2), backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10), vocoder (10)
• Philippe Saisse – keyboards (1-10), keyboard bass (3, 4, 7, 9), acoustic piano solo (5), Synclavier horns (10)
• Kevin Jones – Synclavier programming (1-10)
• Peter Scherer – keyboards (9, 10), keyboard bass (10)
• Hiram Bullock – guitar (4, 8), guitar solo (8)
• Anthony Jackson – bass guitar (6, 8)
• Jimmy Bralower – drums (1, 2), percussion (1, 2)
• Steve Ferrone – second hi-hat cymbal (2), drums (3-10)
• Leonard Gibbs – percussion (1, 3, 5-10)
• Mac Gollehon – brass (1)
• Robert Aaron – reeds (2)
• Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 10)
• Lisa Fischer – backing vocals (2, 7, 10)
• Diane Garisto – backing vocals (2, 7, 10)
• Terri Gonzalez – backing vocals (2, 8)
• Brenda King – backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10)
• Curtis King – backing vocals (2-8, 10)
• Michelle Cobbs – backing vocals (3-6, 8)
• Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals (3, 6)
• Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals (4, 5, 8)

Production

• Producer – Nile Rodgers
• Recorded and Mixed by James Farber at Skyline Studios (New York, NY).
• Second Engineer – Scott Ansell
• Additional Second Engineering – Tom Durack
• Digitally Edited by Barry Diament at Atlantic Studios (New York, NY).
• Digitally Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
• Production Managers – Kevin Jones and Budd Tunick
• Album Coordination – Shirley Klein
• Art Direction – Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff and Michael Hodgson
• Design – Michael Hodgson
• Photography – Paul Jasmin
• Styling – Maria Sarno/Dangerous Wardrobe
• Management – Patrick Raines & Associates (Los Angeles, CA).

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/Al-Jarreau-L-Is-For-Lover/master/75103