I'd Rather

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"I'd Rather"
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Single by Luther Vandross
from the album Luther Vandross
ReleasedApril 16, 2002 (2002-04-16)
Genre R&B, soul
Length4:51
Label J
Songwriter(s) Shep Crawford
Producer(s) Shep Crawford
Luther Vandross singles chronology
"Can Heaven Wait"
(2001)
"I'd Rather"
(2002)
"Dance with My Father"
(2003)

"I'd Rather" is a song by American singer Luther Vandross. It written and produced by Shep Crawford and recorded by Vandross for his eponymous album (2001). The song was released as the album's third and final single. "I'd Rather" became a top twenty hit on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart and reached the top forty on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. [1] It also topped the US Adult R&B Songs chart, the second single from Luther Vandross to do so. [2]

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Credits and personnel

Credits lifted from the liner notes of Luther Vandross. [3]

Charts

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Shep Crawford is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and gospel musician, songwriter, and record producer best known for Whitney Houston's "Same Script, Different Cast", Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here", Tamia's "Stranger in My House", Sisqó's "Incomplete", and Kelly Price's "As We Lay". He is the founder and pastor of The Experience Christian Ministries in Los Angeles, California.

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