''A Pauper in Paradise'' is the fifth studio album by Italian-Canadian singer

Gino Vannelli Gino Vannelli (born June 16, 1952) is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter who had several hit songs in the 1970s and 1980s. His best-known singles include " People Gotta Move" (1974), " I Just Wanna Stop" (1978), " Living Inside Myself" (1981) ...

, released in 1977. It was notable for including contributions by the

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London, England. The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable recording contracts and important engagemen ...

on the second side, including a fifteen-minute title track symphony that took Gino five months to write, and which led A&M to offer a warning to Gino to expand his appeal or face rapid declines in album sales that since '' Powerful People'' had been a steady 300,000 albums per release.

Track listing

Detailed personnel

*Art Direction – Fabio Nicoli, Roland Young (3) *Backing Vocals – Jay Stone, Joanie Bartels *Backing Vocals, Design, Artwork – Joanne Jayde *Drums – Casey Scheuerell *Engineer – John Kurlander (tracks: 7 to 10), Norm Kinney *Engineer ssistent– Steve Prestage *Engineer e-mix– Jon Kelly *Keyboards – Chris Rhyne *Leader – Barry Griffiths (tracks: 7 to 10) *Lyrics By, Music By – Gino Vannelli *Mastered By – Bernie Grundman *Orchestra – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (tracks: 7 to 10) *Orchestrated By, Conductor – Don Sebesky (tracks: 7 to 10) *Percussion – Dido* (tracks: 6), John J. Mandel *Photography By – Beth Kelly *Producer, Arranged By, Keyboards – Joe Vannelli *Saxophone – Dick Morrissey *Synthesizer, Synthesizer

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Piano, Backing Vocals – Bill Meyers *Vocals hoir– The John McCarthy Choir (tracks: 7 to 10) *Vocals, Producer, Arranged By – Gino Vannelli

Technical personnel

* Jon Kelly – Remixing * Norm Kinney – Engineer * John Kurlander – Engineer * Steve Prestage – Assistant Engineer * Fabio Nicoli – Art Direction * Roland Young – Art Direction

Musicians

* Gino Vannelli – lead vocals * Joe Vannelli –

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, piano, programming, synthesizer, synthesizer arrangements, synthesizer string arrangement, backing vocals * Bill Meyers – piano, synthesizer, synthesizer bass, backing vocals * Nyboma Mwan Dido –

bongos Bongos (Spanish language, Spanish: ''bongó'') are an Afro-Cubans, Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. The pair consists of the larger ''hembra'' () and the smaller ''macho'' ...

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are stave (wood), staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (drum), quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), an ...

* Jay Graydon – guitar * Casey Scheuerell – drums * John J. Mandel – percussion, timbales * Chris Rhyne – keyboards, synthesizer bass *

– orchestra on "Black and Blue" and "A Pauper in Paradise"

Technical personnel

* Jon Kelly – Remixing * Norm Kinney – Engineer * John Kurlander – Engineer * Steve Prestage – Assistant Engineer * Fabio Nicoli – Art Direction * Roland Young – Art Direction

Charts

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pauper in Paradise Gino Vannelli albums 1977 albums A&M Records albums Royal Philharmonic Orchestra albums