Standing Tall (The Crusaders album)

Standing Tall
Studio album by the Crusaders
Released	October 1981
Studio	Music City Music Hall (Nashville, Tennessee) Paramount, Producers Workshop, and Wally Heider (Hollywood, California) Salty Dog (Van Nuys, California) Yamaha (Glendale, California)
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:23
Label	MCA [1]
Producer	Wilton Felder Stix Hooper Joe Sample [2]
The Crusaders chronology
Rhapsody and Blues (1980) Standing Tall (1981) Royal Jam (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Standing Tall is an album by the jazz group the Crusaders, their third studio album with MCA Records. It features singer Joe Cocker as guest artist on two tracks: the 1981 Grammy-nominated song "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today" and "This Old World's Too Funky for Me". ^[5]

Track listing

1. "Standing Tall" (Stix Hooper) - 6:46
2. "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today" (Joe Sample, Will Jennings) - 5:02
3. "Sunshine in Your Eyes" (Sample) - 6:11
4. "This Old World's Too Funky for Me" (Sample, Jennings) - 5:25
5. "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" (Chips Moman, Bobby Emmons) - 4:23
6. "The Longest Night" (Sample) - 6:24
7. "Reprise (I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today) (Instrumental)" (Sample. Jennings) - 2:59

Personnel

The Crusaders

• Joe Sample – acoustic, electric and synthesizer keyboards; horn and string arrangements
• Wilton Felder – saxophones, electric bass (5)
• Stix Hooper – drums, percussion

With:

• Barry Finnerty – guitar solos
• David T. Walker – guitars

Guest musicians

• Billy Preston – organ
• Larry Carlton – guitars
• Steve Gibson – guitars
• Jon Goin – guitars
• Dean Parks – guitars
• Reggie Young – guitars
• Marcus Miller – bass (1-3, 6, 7)
• Louis Johnson – bass (4)
• Paulinho da Costa – special percussion

Vocalists

• Joe Cocker – vocals (2, 4)
• Stephanie Spruill – backing vocals
• Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals
• Maxine Waters Willard – backing vocals

Production

• Wilton Felder – producer
• Stix Hooper – producer
• Joe Sample – producer
• Bill Harris – engineer
• Galen Senogles – engineer, mixing
• Russell Castillo – assistant engineer
• David Debusk – assistant engineer
• Mike Reese – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
• Tom Hooper – executive assistant
• Robin Howell – production coordinator
• Wes Leathers – equipment coordinator
• John Malta – equipment coordinator
• George Osaki – art direction
• Georgopoulos/Imada Design, Inc. – design
• Alan Messer – photography

References

1. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958 – via Google Books.
2. "Closeup". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 17, 1981. p. 84 – via Google Books.
3. "Standing Tall - The Crusaders | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 53. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
5. The Crusaders, The Vocal Album: The Greatest Vocal Hits from the Crusaders, CD, MCA Records Capitol Records, 1987