Happy Love

Happy Love is a 1981 album by American singer Natalie Cole. Released on July 18, 1981, it was her final album on Capitol Records. The album reached peak positions of number 132 on the Billboard 200 and number 37 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart.[1]

Happy Love
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 18, 1981
Recorded1981; Sunset Sound Recorders
(Hollywood, California)
Genre
LabelCapitol
Producer
Natalie Cole chronology
Don't Look Back
(1980)
Happy Love
(1981)
I'm Ready
(1983)

Track listing

  1. "You Were Right Girl" (Gary Goetzman, Mike Piccirillo) - 3:16
  2. "Only Love" (Gary Goetzman, Mike Piccirillo) - 3:44
  3. "Nothin' But a Fool" (Bill Amesbury) - 4:20
  4. "The Joke Is On You" (Eddie Cole, Natalie Cole) - 3:22
  5. "These Eyes" (Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman) - 3:37
  6. "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Andrew Wright, Calvin Lewis) - 3:47
  7. "I Can't Let Go" (Gary Goetzman, Mike Piccirillo) - 3:07
  8. "Love and Kisses" (Natalie Cole) - 3:43
  9. "Across the Nation" (Mark Davis, Natalie Cole) - 5:16

Personnel

  • Natalie Cole – lead vocals, arrangements (8, 9)
  • Bill Cuomo – keyboards
  • Eddie Cole – piano (4), Fender Rhodes (8), backing vocals
  • Mike Piccirillo – guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals, arrangements (1-7)
  • Chuck Bynum – guitar (8)
  • Keni Burke, Scott Edwards – bass guitar
  • Ed Greene – drums
  • Joel Peskin – saxophone
  • Harry Kim – trumpet
  • George Tobin – arrangements (1-7)
  • Pat Henderson – backing vocals
  • Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals
  • Maxine Willard Waters – backing vocals
  • Anita Anderson – backing vocals (8)
  • Sissy Peoples – backing vocals (8)
Production
  • Produced and Mixed by Mike Piccirillo and George Tobin
  • Assistant Producer – Richie Griffin
  • Executive Producers – Kevin Hunter and Varnell Johnson
  • Engineers – Howard Wolen and Mark Wolfson
  • Assistant Engineer – John Volaitis
  • Mastered by John Lemay at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA).
  • Art Direction and Photography – Glen Christensen

References

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