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Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!

1978 studio album by Quincy Jones

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Sounds...and Stuff Like That!! is a 1978 studio album by Quincy Jones.

01Track listing

"Stuff Like That" (Quincy Jones, Valerie Simpson, Nickolas Ashford, Eric Gale, Steve Gadd, Richard Tee, Ralph MacDonald), 6:17
- Vocalists: Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Chaka Khan
- Alto sax solo: George Young
"I'm Gonna Miss You in the Morning" (Jones, Tom Bahler, MacDonald), 3:31
- Vocalists: Patti Austin and Luther Vandross
- Lyricon solo: Tom Scott
"Love, I Never Had It So Good" (Jones, Bahler, Patti Austin, Tee), 5:14
- Vocalists: Patt Austin and Charles May
- Electric tenor sax solo: Michael Brecker
- Fender bass solo: Anthony Jackson
"Tell Me a Bedtime Story" (Herbie Hancock), 6:46
- Flute solo: Hubert Laws
- Electric piano: Herbie Hancock
- Jazz violins: Harry Lookofsky (based on a Herbie Hancock piano solo transcribed by Sy Johnson)
"Love Me by Name" (Lesley Gore, Ellen Weston), 4:10
- Vocalist: Patti Austin
- Keyboards: Herbie Hancock
- Guitar: Eric Gale
"Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" (Stevie Wonder), 5:26
- Vocalist: Patti Austin
- Flute solos: Hubert Laws
- Electric piano solo: Herbie Hancock
- Lyricon solo: Tom Scott
"Takin' It to the Streets" (Michael McDonald), 4:24
- Vocalists: Luther Vandross and Gwen Guthrie
- Tenor sax solo: Michael Brecker

02Personnel

Quincy Jones, producer, arranger

Rhythm section

Ralph MacDonald, percussion
Steve Gadd, drums
Anthony Jackson, bass guitar
Eric Gale, guitar
Richard Tee, acoustic piano, fender rhodes, organ
Clark Spangler, synthesizer keyboard bass programming
David T. Walker, guitar (track 1)
Melvin "Wah-Wah" Watson, guitar (track 7)
Michael Boddicker, synthesizer, vocoder, synthesizer programming

New York horn section

Jon Faddis, Virgil Jones, trumpets
Alan Raph, bass trombone
George Young, David Tofani, Harold Vick, Howard Johnson, saxophones

L.A. horn section

Chuck Findley, Snooky Young, Oscar Brashear, Bill Lamb, trumpets
Chauncey Welsch, Robert Payne, Jimmy Cleveland, Donald Waldrup, Bill Watrous, Charles Loper, trombones
Henry Sigismonti, David Duke, Sidney Muldrow, Arthur Maebe, Aubrey Bouh, French horns
Hubert Laws, Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, Jerome Richardson, Buddy Collette, saxophones, flutes
Tommy Johnson, Roger Bobo, tubas

L.A. string section

Israel Baker (concertmaster), Nathan Ross, Marvin Limonick, Sheldon Sanov, John Wittenberg, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Harry Bluestone, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Carl LaMagna, Betty LaMagna, Connie Kupka, violins
David Schwartz, Myer Bello, Samuel Boghossian, Leonard Selic, violas
Dennis Karmazyn, Gloria Strassner, cello
Gayle Levant, harp

New York super singers

Patti Austin (concertmistress)
Gwen Guthrie
Lani Groves
Vivian Cherry
Ullanda McCullough
Tom Bahler (director)
Luther Vandross
Zach Sanders
Bill Eaton
Frank Floyd

Technical personnel

Johnny Mandel, Tom Bahler, L. Leon Pendarvis, Sy Johnson, arranging
Bruce Swedien, engineer, mixing
Niels Erik Lund, Ollie Cotton, Anthony D'Amigo, Cheech D'Amigo, assistant engineers
Jim McCurdy, jazz violin engineer (track 4)
Bernie Grundman, mastering

03Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)	Platinum	1,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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