Middle Man
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| Studio album by Boz Scaggs | |||||
| Released | April 1980 | ||||
| Recorded | 1979 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 41:27 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Producer | Bill Schnee | ||||
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Middle Man is an album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs re-hired the members of the band Toto as session musicians, and shared song-writing credits with them. He re-embraced the commercial rock appeal of Silk Degrees.
The album reached #8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached the Billboard Hot 100: "Breakdown Dead Ahead" at #15 and "Jojo", at #17.
[edit] Track listing
- Jojo (#17 US) (David Foster, David Lasley, Boz Scaggs) – 5:51
- Breakdown Dead Ahead (#15 US) (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:33
- Simone (Foster, Scaggs) – 5:05
- You Can Have Me Anytime (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:56
- Middle Man (Foster, Scaggs) – 4:51
- Do Like You Do in New York (Scaggs) – 3:44
- Angel You (Foster, Scaggs) – 3:38
- Isn't It Time (Scaggs) – 4:53
- You Got Some Imagination (Steve Lukather, Scaggs, Bill Schnee) – 3:56
[edit] Personnel
- Boz Scaggs - guitar, vocals
- Jeff Porcaro - drums
- Carlos Santana - guitar
- Lenny Castro - percussion
- David Foster - synthesizer, keyboards, string arrangements
- Don Grolnick - piano, keyboards
- Joe Vitale - drums
- James Newton Howard - keyboards, Clavinet
- David Hungate - bass
- Steve Lukather - guitar
- Rick Marotta - drums
- David Paich - organ, synthesizer, keyboards
- Ray Parker, Jr. - bass, guitar
- John Pierce - bass
- Adrian Tapia - saxophone
- Adria Tapia - saxophone
- Bill Thedford - background vocals
- Julia Tillman Waters - background vocals
- Oren Waters - background vocals
- Paulette Brown - background vocals
- Rosemary Butler - background vocals
- Chuck "Fingers" Irwin - background vocals
- David Lasley - background vocals
- Bill Champlin - background vocals
- Charlotte Crossley - background vocals
- Venetta Fields - background vocals
- Sharon Redd - background vocals
