Free: The Columbia/ARC Recordings 1976-1988

Tracklist

• CD 1: This Is Niecy / Song Bird
• 1
  It’s Important to Me
  4:20
• 2
  That’s What Friends Are For
  4:28
• 3
  How’d I Know That Love Would Slip Away
  3:49
• 4
  Cause You Love Me Baby
  4:08
• 5
  Free
  5:58
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Watching Over
  3:51
• 7
  If You Don’t Believe
  8:01
• 8
  Time
  3:53
  4.0 ★
• 9
  The Boy I Left Behind
  3:34
  2.5 ★
• 10
  We Have Love for You
  3:41
• 11
  God Is Amazing
  4:01
  2.0 ★
• 12
  Baby, Baby My Love’s All for You
  4:08
• 13
  Season
  3:40
• 14
  Be Good to Me
  2:58
• 15
  The Paper
  7:50
• CD 2: That’s What Friends Are For (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  You’re All I Need to Get By

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  2:42
• 2
  Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  3:41
• 3
  You’re a Special Part of My Life

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  2:58
• 4
  Ready or Not

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  2:53
• 5
  Me for You, You for Me

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  3:14
• 6
  Your Precious Love

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  3:25
• 7
  Just the Way You Are

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  3:45
• 8
  That’s What Friends Are For

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  3:29
• 9
  I Just Can’t Get Over You

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  4:12
• 10
  Touching Me With Love

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  2:36
• 11
  Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Emotion

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  3:17
• 13
  Love Won’t Let Me Wait

  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
  4:11
• CD 3: When Love Comes Calling / My Melody
• 1
  I Found Love
  3:38
• 2
  Are You Thinking?
  4:16
• 3
  My Prayer
  0:24
• 4
  I’ve Got the Next Dance
  5:54
• 5
  Touch Me Again
  5:11
• 6
  When Love Comes Calling
  3:28
• 7
  God Knows
  4:11
• 8
  Like Magic
  3:33
• 9
  Turn Around
  3:49
• 10
  Why Can’t We Fall in Love?
  4:46
• 11
  My Melody
  4:09
• 12
  It’s Your Conscience
  4:51
• 13
  Silly
  5:54
• 14
  Strangers
  6:25
• 15
  What Two Can Do
  3:53
• 16
  You’re All That Matters
  5:16
• 17
  Suspicious
  4:13
• 18
  Sweet Surrender
  4:16
• CD 4: Niecy / I’m So Proud
• 1
  Waiting by the Hotline
  3:40
• 2
  It’s Gonna Take a Miracle
  4:10
• 3
  Love Notes
  4:21
• 4
  I Believe in Miracles
  2:51
• 5
  How Does It Feel
  5:49
• 6
  Waiting
  4:30
• 7
  Now Is the Time for Love
  4:05
• 8
  A Part of Love
  3:39
• 9
  Do What You Feel
  4:26
• 10
  I’m So Proud
  3:56
• 11
  So Deep in Love
  4:22
• 12
  I’m Glad It’s You
  3:29
• 13
  Heaven in Your Eyes
  4:52
• 14
  They Say
  7:06
• 15
  Love, Peace and Unity
  5:35
• 16
  It’s Okay
  5:25
• CD 5: Let’s Hear It for the Boy / Hot on the Trail
• 1
  Let’s Hear It for the Boy
  4:18
  3.6 ★
• 2
  I Want You
  2:52
• 3
  Picking Up the Pieces
  4:42
• 4
  Black Butterfly
  4:27
• 5
  Next Love
  4:34
• 6
  Haunting Me
  4:58
• 7
  Don’t Tell Me We Have Nothing
  4:01
• 8
  Blind Dating
  3:40
• 9
  Wrapped Up
  4:38
• 10
  Whiter Than Snow
  3:45
• 11
  Wiser and Weaker
  5:14
• 12
  Hot on the Trail
  4:21
• 13
  He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
  4:30
• 14
  Video
  4:19
• 15
  I Feel the Night
  3:57
• 16
  We’re Together
  4:09
• 17
  Straight From the Heart
  4:00
• 18
  Healing
  4:45
• CD 6: Water Under the Bridge
• 1
  I Confess
  3:58
• 2
  Never Say Never
  4:57
• 3
  Water Under the Bridge
  4:32
• 4
  Love Finds You
  4:02
• 5
  Not by Chance
  4:34
• 6
  One Less Lonely Heart
  4:15
• 7
  I Believe in You
  4:29
• 8
  Someone for Someone
  3:48
• 9
  Baby This Is Love
  3:56
• 10
  Don’t Blame It on My Heart
  4:46
• CD 7: As Good as It Gets
• 1
  I Can’t Wait
  4:26
• 2
  This Is as Good as It Gets
  4:30
• 3
  We Are Here to Change the World
  3:46
• 4
  All I Need
  4:15
• 5
  Memories
  4:33
• 6
  There’s No Other
  4:20
• 7
  I Am Sure
  4:28
• 8
  It’s You I’m After
  5:02
• 9
  Don’t Stop the Love
  3:51
• 10
  Hold Me Tight
  3:50
• CD 8: Bonus Tracks
• 1
  Free (long single version)
  3:28
• 2
  Baby Baby My Love’s All for You
  3:53
• 3
  Silly (single version)
  4:37
• 4
  It’s Your Conscience (single version)
  3:47
  5.0 ★
• 5
  It’s Gonna Take a Miracle (single version)
  3:19
• 6
  Do What You Feel (single version)
  4:09
• 7
  It’s Okay (single version)
  4:12
• 8
  I Found Love (12” disco mix)
  6:53
• 9
  I’ve Got the Next Dance (12” disco mix)
  6:26
• 10
  Let’s Hear It for the Boy (12” version)
  6:02
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Next Love (12” version)
  7:10
• 12
  Wiser and Weaker (aka Wiser Gets Weaker) (12” extended version)
  6:18
• 13
  I Confess (12” dance mix)
  5:03
• 14
  Never Say Never (12” extended version)
  7:36
• 15
  I Can’t Wait (12” version)
  5:29

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Love, Niecy Style

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Release credits

• Bill Champlin
  background vocals [4, 6-7]
• Bill Meyers
  strings [7]
• Charles Fearing
  guitar [1, 9]
• Charles Stepney
  producer [8.1, 1.1-7]
• David Foster
  arranger [6], background vocals [6], keyboard [2, 4, 6-7], piano [5], producer [2, 4-7]
• David Hungate
  bass guitar [6-7]
• David Shields
  bass guitar [1, 9]
• Deniece Williams
  background vocals [5.1, 3.1-2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.9], co [2-9], lead vocals [1-2, 4-9], performer [1, 11, 13], producer [5.2-3, 5.7-10, 3.12, 3.18], vocal [3]
• Don Myrick
  saxophone [8], solo [8]
• Dyanne Chandler
  background vocals [1, 9]
• Ed Greene
  drums (drum set) [2, 4, 8]
• Eddie “Bongo” Brown
  bongos [8]
• Erik Zobler
  mix [1]
• Gary Coleman
  vibraphone [1, 9]
• Gary Herbig
  saxophone [4], solo [4]
• Gene Page
  arranger [1], brass [1, 8-9], strings [1, 8-9]
• George Duke
  Minimoog [1], Moog [1], analog synthesizer [1], electronic drum set [1], producer [5.1, 5.4-6, 8.10-11]
• George Merrill
  background vocals [1]
• Greg Mathieson
  arranger [4]
• Greg Phillinganes
  keyboard [8-9]
• Humberto Gatica
  engineer [1-7, 9], mix [1-9]
• Jack Ashford
  tambourine [8]
• Jack Gold
  producer [1, 11]
• Jeff Porcaro
  drums (drum set) [1, 6-7, 9]
• Jellybean
  mix [10-11]
• Jeremy Lubbock
  arranger [5], conductor [5]
• Jerry Hey
  brass [6-7]
• Johnny Mathis
  performer [1, 11]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [2]
• Larry Farrow
  keyboard [1]
• Larry Jacobs
  background vocals [8]
• Maurice White
  producer [1.1-7, 8.1]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [1-2, 9]
• Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson
  guitar [8]
• Michael Hutchinson
  engineer [10]
• Mike Porcaro
  bass guitar [2, 4]
• Ollie E. Brown
  percussion [1, 8-9]
• Paul Jackson, Jr.
  guitar [1]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [3.2, 3.7, 5.1]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  background vocals [1], guitar [1-2, 4, 6, 8-9], producer [1, 8-9]
• Richard Feldman
  guitar [7]
• Ron Malo
  engineer [8]
• Scott Edwards
  bass guitar [8]
• Shannon Rubicam
  background vocals [1]
• Sidney Barnes
  background vocals [8]
• Steve Lukather
  guitar [2, 4, 6-7]
• Sylvester Rivers
  arranger [1-2, 8-9], keyboard [1]
• Thom Bell
  arranger [12, 18], conductor [12, 18], producer [12, 18]
• Tom Perry
  mix [1]
• Tommy Vicari
  mix [1]
• Show all credits (50)

Issues

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  Free: The Columbia/ARC Recordings 1976-1988

  8x CD
  2 July 2021