Looking at You, Looking at Me

Looking at You, Looking at Me is the seventh full-length studio recording from singer/songwriter/drummer/producer Narada Michael Walden. It was Walden's last album to be released by Atlantic Records and peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Top R&B albums chart.

Looking at You, Looking at Me
Studio album by Narada Michael Walden
Released	1983
Studio	The Automatt (San Francisco, CA)
Genre	Soul, R&B, dance
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden chronology
Confidence (1982) Looking at You, Looking at Me (1983) The Nature of Things (1985)
Singles from Looking at You, Looking at Me
"Black Boy" "Reach Out I'll Be There"

Professional ratings

Review scores
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AllMusic

The album's lead single "Black Boy" failed to chart. However, the cover of "Reach Out I'll Be There" reached No. 40 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Reach Out I'll Be There"	Holland–Dozier–Holland	5:56
2.	"Looking at You, Looking at Me"	Jeffrey Cohen, Preston Glass, Narada Michael Walden, Theo Martin	4:36
3.	"Burning Up"		4:19
4.	"Never Wanna Be Without Your Love" (duet with Angela Bofill)	Phillip Saisse, Jim DiPrima	4:18
5.	"Shake It Off"		5:12
6.	"Dream Maker"		4:43
7.	"Tina"		4:15
8.	"Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You"		4:44
9.	"Black Boy"		4:29
Total length:			42:32

Personnel

As listed on the back cover of the Looking at You, Looking at Me vinyl album:

• Narada Michael Walden – lead vocals, drums, percussion (1, 4), acoustic piano (1 or 2)^, Prophet-5 (3, 5-9), horn arrangements (3, 5), timbales (8)
• David Sancious – synthesizers (1, 2), OB-X kalimba (1), Oberheim OB-X (3, 4), keyboards (3), acoustic piano (4, 5), OB-X harmonica licks (6), OB-X blues licks (7), OB-X harmonica (9)
• Mitchell Froom – Moog bells (1), gun shot (2)
• Frank Martin – synthesizers (3-5), Rhodes piano (4), string synthesizer (6, 8), organ (7)
• Mark Robertson – Mellotron (9)
• Joaquin Lievano – guitars (1, 2), guitar solo (2)
• Preston Glass – acoustic guitars (1, 2)
• Corrado Rustici – finger snaps (2), guitars (3-6, 8), 50s guitar and solo (7), acoustic guitars (9), electric guitars (9)
• Randy Jackson – bass (1-6, 8, 9), finger snaps (2), bass solo (5)
• Herman Jackson – finger snaps (2)
• Sheila Escovedo – percussion (4, 8)
• Andy Narell – steel drums solo (8)
• Marc Russo – alto saxophone (2-5, 7), alto sax solo (4, 7)
• Jerry Hey – trumpet and flugelhorn (2-5), horn arrangements (2-5)
• Chuck Findley – trumpet and flugelhorn (2-5)
• Michael Gibbs – string arrangements (2, 4, 6)
• Frankie Beverly and Maze – "Reach!" backing vocals (1)
• Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
• Kelly Kool – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8), role of "Tina" (7)
• John Lehman – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
• Myrna Matthews – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
• Carla Vaughn – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
• Jeffrey E. Cohen – "Chief of the S.F. Fire Department" (3)
• Angela Bofill – lead vocals (4)

Handclaps on "Shake It Off"

• Jim Gilstrap, Randy Jackson, Kelly Kool, John Lehman, Myrna Matthews, Dwayne Simmons, Carla Vaughn and Lisa Walden

^Walden is listed as having played acoustic piano on Track 1; however, no acoustic piano is evident on this track. Conversely, whoever plays the (clearly-audible) acoustic piano on Track 2 is uncredited; it is thus possible that Walden is miscredited with performing the piano on Track 1, when he in fact played it on Track 2.

Production

• Narada Michael Walden – producer, arrangements
• David Frazer – engineer
• Ken Kessie – basic track engineer (4)
• Maureen Droney – second engineer
• Wayne Lewis – second engineer
• Ray Pyle – second engineer
• Leslie Ann Jones – final editing
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
• Norman Seeff – photography
• Lynn Dreese Breslin – art direction
• Gregory Digiovine – management
• Adam's Dad Management Co. – management

Charts

Chart (1983)	Peak position
US Top R&B Albums (Billboard)	51

External links

• Looking At You, Looking At Me at Discogs