''Objects of Desire'' is a
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
vocal
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...
album by
Michael Franks, released in 1982 with
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Records Inc. (known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label. A subsidiary of Warner Music Group, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded on March 19, 1958, as the recorded music division ...
.
It was Franks' seventh
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...
.
Track listing
Charts
Personnel
Musicians and Vocalists
* Michael Franks – vocals, backing vocals (2, 5, 8), rhythm arrangements
*
Rob Mounsey
Rob Mounsey (born December 2, 1952) is an American musician, composer, and arranger.
Music career
Mounsey was born in Berea, Ohio, and grew up in Seattle, Washington, spending a few years each in Findlay and Granville, Ohio. At the age of 17, ...
– electric piano (1, 9),
Oberheim OB-Xa
The Oberheim OB-Xa was the second of Oberheim's OB-series polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizers, replacing the OB-X with updated features.
History
The OB-Xa was released in December 1980, replacing the OB-X after only a year on the marke ...
(1, 2, 5), brass arrangements (1, 4, 7),
Prophet-5
The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential (company), Sequential. It was designed by Dave Smith (engineer), Dave Smith and John S. Bowen (sound designer), John Bowen in 1977. It was the first Polyphony ...
(2, 5, 7),
Fender Rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...
(4, 6-8), acoustic piano (8)
*
Michael Colina
Michael Dalmau Colina (born November 16, 1948) is a Grammy-winning American musician, composer, producer and engineer. He has written music for television, film, theatre, dance and live performances on concert stages throughout the United States, ...
– rhythm arrangements,
ARP synthesizer
ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan R. Pearlman, Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the ...
(2, 9), Oberheim OB-Xa (3, 4, 6, 8),
Moog bass
The Moog Taurus is a foot-operated analog synthesizer designed and manufactured by Moog Music. It was originally conceived as a part of the Constellation series of synthesizers. The initial Taurus I was manufactured from 1975 to 1981; a less pop ...
(5),
antique cymbals (6), string arrangements (8)
*
Bette Sussman
Bette Sussman is an American television composer, singer, songwriter, pianist, and musical director.
Biography
Early life
Sussman was musically inspired by her mother and older sister, Sue. After her mother signed her up for piano lessons at ...
– Fender Rhodes (2)
* Ted Lo – Fender Rhodes (3, 5)
* Nick Moroch – electric guitar (1-3, 6, 7), acoustic guitar (6)
*
Larry Carlton
Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts including Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. One of the most sought after guitarists of his era, Carlton has ...
– electric guitar solo (3)
* Joe Caro – electric guitar (4, 9)
*
Hugh McCracken
Hugh Carmine McCracken (March 31, 1942 – March 28, 2013) was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally ...
– electric guitar (8)
*
Steve Khan
Steve Khan (born Steven Harris Cahn;
April 28, 1947) is an American jazz guitarist.
Career
Steven Harris Cahn was born in Los Angeles. His father, lyricist Sammy Cahn, "loved to hear any and all versions of his songs". He took piano lessons as a ...
–
classical guitar
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string (music), string instrument with strings made of catgut, gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the ...
(9)
* Francisco Centeno – bass (1, 7, 8)
*
Neil Jason
Neil Jason, is an American musician, songwriter, producer and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he has worked with some of the biggest recording artists, including John Lennon, Billy Joel, Roxy Music, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, ...
– bass (2, 3, 6)
*
Mark Egan
Mark Egan (born January 14, 1951, in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American jazz bassist and trumpeter known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group and the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band, Elements.
Biogra ...
– bass (4, 5, 9)
*
Buddy Williams – drums (1, 7, 9)
*
– drums (2, 3, 5, 6)
* Rick Cutler – drums (4)
*
Harvey Mason
Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. He was the original drummer for Herbie Hancock's band The Headhunters.
Life and career
Mason was born and grew ...
– drums (8)
*
Victor Feldman
Victor Stanley Feldman (7 April 1934 – 12 May 1987) was an English jazz musician who played mainly piano, vibraphone, and percussion. He began performing professionally during childhood, eventually earning acclaim in the UK jazz scene as ...
– percussion (3, 8),
conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...
s (8)
*
Rubens Bassini
Rubens Bassini (January 26, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro – September 1985) was a Brazilian percussionist, who played bongos and congas above all. He played together with the band Os Ipanemas: Astor Silva; (trombone), Marinho (bass), Wilson das N ...
– percussion (4, 9), congas (9)
* Ray Bardani –
Rhythm Tech tambourine
Rhythm (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular repetition (music), recurring motion, symmetry#Symmetry in music, symmetry") generally means a "motion, movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of ...
(7, 8)
* Lawrence Feldman – alto saxophone (1, 4, 7), tenor sax solo (7),
flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
(9)
*
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as a performer and composer, received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in ...
– tenor saxophone (1, 7), tenor sax solo (4)
*
David Sanborn
David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist. He worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He began playing the saxophone at the age o ...
– alto sax solo (6, 8)
*
Randy Brecker
Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock music, rock, and R&B.
Early life
Brecker was ...
– trumpet (1, 7),
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...
(4)
*
Lew Soloff
Lewis Michael Soloff (February 20, 1944 – March 8, 2015) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and actor. He was a founding member of the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Biography
From his birth place of New York City, United States, he studie ...
– trumpet (1, 7), flugelhorn (4)
* Jill Jaffee and City Strings – strings (8)
*
S. Renee Diggs – backing vocals (1, 5, 8), vocals (8)
*
Yvonne Lewis – backing vocals (1)
*
Ullanda McCullough
Ullanda McCullough is an American pop music singer most noted as a backing vocalist.
Career
McCullough began her singing career at age 13 in Detroit, Michigan. In early 1970s she sang numerous advertising jingles including the 1971 Coca-Cola com ...
– backing vocals (1, 5)
*
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (; born November 8, 1949) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In 1971, Raitt released her Bonnie Raitt (album), self-titled debut album. Following this, she released a series of critically acclaimed Americana (mu ...
– vocals (2), backing vocals (2)
*
– backing vocals (5)
* Leslie Miller – backing vocals (5)
*
Randy Vanwarmer
Randy VanWarmer (also spelled Vanwarmer or Van Warmer; March 30, 1955 – January 12, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His biggest hit song was " Just When I Needed You Most". It reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in S ...
– backing vocals (6)
*
Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American Soul music, soul and Contemporary R&B, R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. Over his career, he achieved eleven consecutive RIAA certification, RIAA-certified ...
– backing vocals (7)
*
Tawatha Agee
Tawatha Agee (born November 14, 1954) is an American vocalist and songwriter. Her voice has been described in ''The New York Times'' as an "acrobatic, gospel-charged soprano." She was the lead singer of funk and soul band Mtume; her soulful lead ...
– backing vocals (7)
*
Phillip Ballou
Revelation was an American R&B and soul vocal group formed in 1974 in New York City, best known for their gospel harmonies. The group comprised Benny Diggs, Phillip Ballou, Arthur Freeman, and Arnold McCuller, all of whom have roots in gospel mus ...
– backing vocals (7)
Production
* Michael Colina – producer
* Ray Bardani – producer, recording, mixing
*
George Marino
George Marino (April 15, 1947June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s.
Biography
Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the New York City borough The Bronx. He attended ...
– mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
* Tim Holland – production assistant
* Katherine Jewell – production coordinator (NYC)
* Noel Newbolt – production coordinator (LA)
* Simon Levy – art direction, design
* Barry McKinley – cover photography
*
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influ ...
– cover painting
References
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Michael Franks (musician) albums
1982 albums
Albums produced by Michael Colina
Warner Records albums