Only the Best of Dee Dee Bridgewater

Original Release Date:  May 26, 2009

Track Listing

• 1. My Prayer [Fast]
• 2. My Lonely Room
• 3. It Ain't Easy
• 4. He's Gone
• 5. Goin' Through the Motions
• 6. You Saved Me
• 7. Every Man Wants Another Man's Woman
• 8. My Prayer [Ballad]
• 9. Lonely Disco Dancer
• 10. When Love Comes Knockin'
• 11. One In a Million (Guy)
• 12. Gunshots In the Night
• 13. When You're In Love
• 14. That's the Way Love Should Feel
• 15. Give In To Love
• 16. Jody (Whoever You Are)
• 17. Just Family
• 18. Maybe Today
• 19. Children Are the Spirit (of the World)
• 20. Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word
• 21. Sweet Rain
• 22. Open Up Your Eyes
• 23. Night Moves
• 24. Thank the Day(You Walked Into My Life)
• 25. Melody Maker
• 26. Bad For Me
• 27. Back of Your Mind
• 28. For the Girls
• 29. Love Won't Let Me Go
• 30. Streetsinger
• 31. It's the Falling In Love
• 32. Tequila Mockinbird
• 33. Don't Say It (If You Don't Mean It)
• 34. Is This What Feeling Gets? [From the Motion Picture "the Wiz"]

Credits

• Elton John: Composer
• George Duke: Synthesizer, Bass, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Fender Rhodes, Orchestration
• Ronnie Foster: Composer, Keyboards
• Michael Franks: Composer
• Quincy Jones: Composer
• Bobby Lyle: Composer, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Mini Moog
• Joe Sample: Keyboards
• Bobby Bryant: Trumpet
• Pete Carr: Guitar
• Fred Jackson: Sax (Baritone)
• David Foster: Composer
• Roland Bautista: Guitar
• Carole Bayer Sager: Composer
• Daryl Hall: Composer
• Gene Page: Arranger, Producer
• Scarlet Rivera: Violin
• David T. Walker: Guitar
• Gene McDaniels: Composer
• Alan O'Day: Composer
• Jimmy Kennedy: Composer
• Airto Moreira: Percussion
• Bobbye Hall: Conga
• Murray Adler: Strings, Concert Manager
• William Allen: Composer
• Nick Ashford: Composer
• Tom Bahler: Composer
• John Barnes: Composer
• Sharon Barnes: Composer
• Barry Beckett: Keyboards
• Leroy Bell: Composer
• Thom Bell: Composer, Producer, Executive Producer
• Harry Bluestone: Concert Master
• Dee Dee Bridgewater: Composer, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Liner Notes
• Herb Bushler: Bass
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler: Composer, Drums
• Vivian Cherry: Vocals (Background)
• Stanley Clarke: Bass, Composer, Producer
• Merry Clayton: Vocals (Background)
• Gary Coleman: Percussion
• Linda Creed: Composer
• Henry Davis: Bass
• Lynn Davis: Vocals
• Carolyn Dennis: Vocals (Background)
• Richard Duncan: Composer
• Larry Dunn: Composer, Fender Rhodes
• Sheila Escovedo: Percussion
• Norman Farrington: Drums
• Wilton Felder: Bass
• Frederick Seykora: Strings
• Jerry Friedman: Guitar
• James Getzoff: Strings
• Jim Gilstrap: Vocals (Background)
• Alan Glass: Composer
• Preston Glass: Composer
• Pamela Goldsmith: Strings
• Ed Greene: Drums
• Gregg Hamm: Engineer
• Roger Hawkins: Drums
• Tom Hensley: Keyboards
• Jerry Hey: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• David Hood: Bass
• Josie James: Vocals
• Alphonso Johnson: Bass
• Jimmy Johnson: Guitar
• Robert Konrad: Strings
• Abraham Laboriel, Sr.: Bass
• Ricky Lawson: Drums, Syndrum
• John Lehman: Vocals (Background)
• Marvin Limonick: Strings
• Joy Lyle: Strings
• Harvey Mason, Sr.: Drums
• Jerry Masters: Engineer
• Marti McCall: Vocals (Background)
• Steve Melton: Engineer
• Byron Miller: Bass
• Cliff Morris: Guitar
• Carole Mukogawa: Strings
• Sidney Muldrow: French Horn
• Linda November: Vocals (Background)
• John Oates: Composer
• Gene Orloff: Concert Master
• Ray Parker, Jr.: Guitar
• Dean Parks: Guitar
• Richard Perissi: French Horn
• Greg Phillinganes: Fender Rhodes
• Robert Popwell: Bass
• Petsye Powell: Vocals (Background)
• Stephen Y. Scheaffer: Producer, Mixing
• Valerie Simpson: Composer
• Peter Skellern: Composer
• Michael Small: Composer
• Maurice Spears: Trombone (Bass)
• Bernie Taupin: Composer
• Ed Thacker: Engineer
• Deborah Thomas: Composer
• Allen Toussaint: Composer
• Jackie Ward: Vocals (Background)
• Jerry Wexler: Producer
• Harold Wheeler: Keyboards, Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
• Gayle Levant: Strings
• Loni Groves: Vocals (Background)
• Billy Page: Vocal Arrangement
• Bob Defrin: Art Direction
• Paula Scher: Art Direction
• William Reichenbach: Trombone
• David Alexander: Photography
• Ron Coro: Art Direction, Design
• Sheree Lubick: Design
• Jon Vogel: Mastering
• Richard Roebuck: Composer
• Raye Styles: Composer
• Georges Boulanger: Composer
• Claude Mougin: Photography
• George Bohanon: Trombone
• Bob Bateman: Composer
• Charles Waring: Liner Notes
• Don Kerr: Composer
• Louis Sattersfield: Trombone
• Houghton: Photography
• William Kurasch: Strings
• Gilbert Moses: Composer
• Dave Hassinger: Engineer
• Alan Schwartzburg: Drums
• Arleane Martell: Vocals (Background)
• J.B. Jefferson: Composer
• Judy Perett: Strings
• Melvin Ragin: Guitar
• Lew Hahn: Mixing
• Johnny Lee: Art Direction
• Gwindolyn Gutherie: Vocals (Background)
• Ed Little: Composer
• Douglas L. Davis: Strings
• Dennis Caldirola: Composer
• Charles Veal, Jr.: Composer
• Carolyn Wilia: Vocals (Background)
• Beckey Lopez: Vocals (Background)
• August Johnson: Vocals (Background)
• Ken Wilde: Bass
• Jorge G. DelBarrio: Strings
• Jay a. Rosen: Strings
• Janet Laketos: Strings
• Roxanne J. Seeman: Composer
• Robert L. Adcock: Strings
• Raymond Gomez: Guitar, Composer
• Paulindo Da Costa: Percussion