Emotion

by Barbra Streisand

Overview

Barbra Streisand's first album of contemporary material in four years was a typical '80s adult contemporary superstar release, each track written and produced as a potential "power ballad" single by an extensive team of other performers, in this case including Richard Perry, Kim Carnes, Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire, Jim Steinman, Albhy Galuten (the Bee Gees' producer), Richard Baskin, Diane Warren, John Mellencamp, and Streisand herself. Streisand proved capable of handling everything from White's space-age R&B to Steinman's melodramatic overproduction. (He was the man who brought you Meat Loaf.) But as usually happens with such big budget efforts, the album lacked consistency, and as Columbia tried to pull several singles off it without notable success, it sold only to Streisand's million-member base audience. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	03/01/2008
Label:	Columbia
UPC:	0886972469027
Rank:	66779

Tracks

1. Emotion
2. Make No Mistake, He's Mine
3. Time Machine
4. Best I Could
5. Left in the Dark
6. Heart Don't Change My Mind
7. When I Dream
8. You're a Step in the Right Direction
9. Clear Sailing
10. Here We Are at Last

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Barbra Streisand   Primary Artist
Kim Carnes   Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Paulinho Da Costa   Guest Artist,Percussion
The Pointer Sisters   Guest Artist,Vocals (Background)
Paul Jackson, Jr.   Guitar
Steve Forman   Percussion
Steve Buslowe   Bass
Steve Lukather   Guitar
Jimmy Maelen   Percussion
Bob Lizik   Bass
Larry Fast   Synthesizer
Clydene Jackson   Vocals (Background)
Russ Kunkel   Drums
Lee Holdridge   Conductor
Dennis Herring   Guitar
John Phillips   Saxophone
Jeff Porcaro   Percussion
Peter Bliss   Guitar
Roy Bittan   Piano
Rick Derringer   Guitar
Nathan East   Bass
Maurice White   Vocals (Background)
Max Weinberg   Drums
Neil Stubenhaus   Bass
Randy Waldman   Synthesizer
Michel Colombier   Keyboards
Albhy Galuten   Keyboards,Synthesizer
Dann Huff   Guitar
George Doering   Guitar
Abraham Laboriel, Sr.   Bass
Bruce Gaitsch   Guitar
Rory Dodd   Vocals (Background)
Jerry Peterson   Saxophone
Vinnie Colaiuta   Drums
James Newton Howard   Keyboards
Ed Tossing   Piano,Fender Rhodes
Don Felder   Guitar
Eric Troyer   Vocals (Background)
Robbie Buchanan   Keyboards,Synthesizer
Maxine Willard Waters   Vocals (Background)
Monty Byrom   Vocals (Background)
Art Johnson   Pedal Steel
Gary Chang   Synthesizer
Howie Rice   Guitar,Synthesizer
Tom Radtke   Drums
Steve Mitchell   Synthesizer
Jeff Southworth   Guitar
Julia Tillman Waters   Vocals (Background)
Holly Sherwood   Vocals (Background)
Richard Ruttenberg   Synthesizer
Bobby Whiteside   Conductor
Earl Lon Price   Saxophone
John "J.R." Robinson   Drums

Technical Credits

Sharon Rice   Assistant Engineer
Stephen Marcussen   Mastering
Paul Ericksen   Assistant Engineer
Bill Cuomo   Producer
Kim Carnes   Composer,Producer
Jack Joseph Puig   Mixing,Engineer
Richard Perry   Producer
Gary Skardina   Engineer
Ed Cherney   Engineer
Rik Pekkonen   Engineer
John Cougar   Composer
Don Gehman   Mixing
Greg Droman   Assistant Engineer
Lee Holdridge   Arranger
David Schober   Assistant Engineer
John Jansen   Mixing,Associate Producer
John Richards   Engineer
Judy Clapp   Engineer,Assistant Engineer
Peter Bliss   Composer,Drum Programming
Mark Ettel   Assistant Engineer
Martin Page   Rhythm Arrangements
Nelson Ayres   Assistant Engineer
Jeremy Smith   Engineer
Peter McIan   Composer
Maurice White   Producer,Vocal Arrangement,Rhythm Arrangements
Niko Bolas   Engineer
Richard Lee Wold   Composer
Richard Bosworth   Engineer
Richard Baskin   Composer,Producer
Michel Colombier   Rhythm Arrangements,String Arrangements
Mick Guzauski   Engineer
Albhy Galuten   Mixing,Producer,String Arrangements
Ann Black Montgomery   Composer
Diane Warren   Composer
Dave Greenberg   Assistant Engineer
Rory Dodd   Vocal Arrangement
James Newton Howard   String Arrangements
Eric Troyer   Vocal Arrangement
Charles Koppelman   Producer,Executive Producer
John Arrias   Engineer
Robert Bruce Whiteside   Composer
Robbie Buchanan   Composer,Programming,Horn Arrangements
Jim Steinman   Mixing,Arranger,Composer,Producer
Barbra Streisand   Composer,Producer
Neil Dorfsman   Engineer
Bruce Lampcov   Assistant Engineer
Gary Chang   Programming
Ivy Skoff   Production Coordination
Paul Wertheimer   Assistant Engineer
Don Ketteler   Production Coordination
Kim Skalecki   Production Coordination
Roger Paglia   Assistant Engineer
Murray Dvorkin   Assistant Engineer
Vincent Gutman   Drum Programming
Hugh Davies   Assistant Engineer
Steve Hirsch   Mixing,Assistant Engineer
Mitch Gibson   Assistant Engineer
Brian Fairweather   Rhythm Arrangements
David Dubow   Assistant Engineer
Alex Schmoll   Assistant Engineer
Holly Sherwood   Vocal Arrangement
Greg Gorman   Photography
Glen Holguin   Assistant Engineer
Bobby Whiteside   Arranger
Bradford Rosenberger   Production Coordination
Steve Schapiro   Photography