The Essential Luther Vandross

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Any Love
  5:02
• 2
  So Amazing
  3:42
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Wait for Love
  5:17
• 4
  Power of Love / Love Power
  4:20
• 5
  For You to Love
  5:36
• 6
  I (Who Have Nothing)

  Luther Vandross with Martha Wash
  7:27
• 7
  Anyone Who Had a Heart
  5:44
• 8
  A House Is Not a Home
  7:07
• 9
  Never Too Much
  3:50
  3.9 ★
• 10
  Since I Lost My Baby
  5:28
• 11
  Stop to Love
  4:22
• 12
  It’s Over Now
  6:07
• 13
  Your Secret Love
  4:12
• 14
  Superstar
  5:39
• 15
  Here and Now
  5:22
• CD 2
• 1
  Knocks Me Off My Feet
  3:44
• 2
  Goin’ Out of My Head
  5:16
• 3
  If Only for One Night
  4:15
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Creepin’
  4:03
• 5
  She’s So Good to Me
  5:39
• 6
  Give Me the Reason
  4:45
  4.0 ★
• 7
  She Loves Me Back
  6:09
• 8
  The Night I Fell in Love
  6:06
• 9
  If the World Were Mine

  feat. Cheryl Lynn
  3:59
• 10
  Don’t Want to Be a Fool
  4:36
• 11
  There’s Nothing Better Than Love

  feat. Gregory Hines
  4:43
• 12
  How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye

  feat. Dionne Warwick
  3:26
• 13
  Love the One You’re With
  5:04
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Endless Love

  Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey
  4:19
  3.8 ★
• 15
  I Want the Night to Stay
  5:25

More by Luther Vandross

Never Too Much

Never Too Much 1981

Give Me the Reason

Give Me the Reason 1986

Forever, for Always, for Love

Forever, for Always, for Love 1982

Rejoice

Rejoice 2017

The Greatest Hits

The Greatest Hits 2014

The Ultimate Luther Vandross

The Ultimate Luther Vandross 2001

Release credits

• Alex Brown
  background vocals [13]
• Andy Hoffman
  assistant [8-9]
• Bashiri Johnson
  congas [9]
• Brenda White‐King
  background vocals [1.9-10, 1.13, 2.2, 2.10, 2.13, 2.15], vocal [7]
• Buddy Williams
  drums (drum set) [1, 5, 9]
• Carl Beatty
  engineer [8-9]
• Cheryl Lynn
  performer [9]
• Cindy Mizelle
  background vocals [1.13, 2.2, 2.10, 2.15]
• Cissy Houston
  background vocals [1.9-10, 2.2, 2.10], vocal [7]
• Crusher Bennett
  percussion [9]
• Dana Jon Chappelle
  background vocals [13], lead vocals [14], mix [13-14], recording [13-14]
• Dann Huff
  acoustic guitar [14], guitar [13-14], solo [14]
• Dionne Warwick
  vocal [12]
• Doc Powell
  guitar [2.7, 1.10]
• Don Wershba
  assistant [8-9]
• Fonzi Thornton
  background vocals [1.10, 2.2, 2.7, 2.15]
• Gary Cirimelli
  synthesizer [13-14]
• Georg “Jojje” Wadenius
  guitar [9]
• Greg Mann
  assistant [8-9]
• Gregory Hines
  guest [11], performer [11]
• Howard Fritzson
  art direction
• Ivan Hampden
  additional [13], drums (drum set) [1-2], percussion [1]
• Jacques Fred Petrus
  producer [15]
• Jason Miles
  programming [15], synthesizer [1.1, 1.5, 2.10]
• Jay Healy
  lead vocals [14]
• Jeremy Lubbock
  conductor [14], orchestrator [14]
• Jim Gilstrap
  background vocals [13]
• John “Skip” Anderson
  additional [13], arranger [1.13, 2.11], bass [13], keyboard [2.2, 1.13], strings [13]
• Johnny Britt
  background vocals [13]
• Joseph M. Palmaccio
  mastering
• Kirk Whalum
  saxophone [1.7, 2.2], solo [1.7, 2.2]
• Larkin Arnold
  executive [1.2-3, 1.7-10, 1.12, 1.14, 2.3-4, 2.6-8, 2.11]
• Leo Sacks
  producer
• Leon Pendarvis
  horn [7], strings [7]
• Lincoln Clapp
  assistant [8-9]
• Luther Vandross
  arranger [2.7, 1.10, 1.13], background vocals [2.7, 2.13, 1.1, 1.5, 1.9-10], co [13], executive [1.13, 2.1-2], lead vocals [2.13-14, 1.1, 1.5, 1.9], producer [2.1-12, 2.15, 1.1-14], vocal [12], vocal arranger [2.2, 2.7, 2.10, 2.15, 1.1, 1.5, 1.8-10, 1.13]
• Lynn Davis
  background vocals [13]
• Marc DeSisto
  assistant [1, 5]
• Marcus Miller
  arranger [2.8, 2.10, 1.1, 1.5, 1.12], background vocals [7], bass [2.2, 2.7, 1.1, 1.5, 1.9-10], bass guitar [10], keyboard [10], producer [1.1-2, 1.4-7, 1.11-12, 2.6-11, 2.15], synthesizer [2.10, 1.1, 1.5]
• Mariah Carey
  lead vocals [14]
• Martha Wash
  guest [6]
• Matthew Rolston
  photography
• Max Risenhoover
  editor [2.1-2, 1.13]
• Michael Brauer
  mix [1.8-10, 2.7, 2.9], recording [2.7, 2.9, 1.8-10]
• Michelle Cobbs
  background vocals [1.9, 2.7], vocal [7]
• Mick Guzauski
  mix [14]
• Nat Adderley, Jr.
  arranger [2.1-4, 2.7, 2.11, 2.15, 1.3, 1.9-10], bass synthesizer [1], horn [2], keyboard [1.9-10, 2.1, 2.7, 2.15], piano [2], producer [1-2], strings [1.2, 1.5, 2.15], synthesizer [15]
• Nicky Kalliongis
  assistant [8-9]
• Norma Jean Wright
  background vocals [10]
• Norman Jean Roy
  photography
• Paul Brown
  background vocals [13], lead vocals [13-14]
• Paul Jackson, Jr.
  guitar [1.1, 1.5, 1.13, 2.1-2, 2.10, 2.15]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [9], horn [2, 9-10], strings [2, 9-10]
• Paulette McWilliams
  background vocals [2.2, 2.10, 2.13, 1.10, 1.13]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [2.7, 2.10, 2.15, 1.5, 1.10]
• Phil Perry
  background vocals [13]
• Phillip Ballou
  background vocals [10]
• Phillip Ingram
  background vocals [13]
• Ray Bardani
  producer, engineer [2.3-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10-11, 2.15, 1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.12], mix [1.1-7, 1.11-15, 2.1-6, 2.8, 2.10-12, 2.15], recording [2.1-6, 2.8, 2.10-12, 2.15, 1.1-7, 1.11-15]
• Reed Vertelney
  arranger [13], bass [13], drum machine [13], keyboard [13], synthesizer [13]
• Ren Klyce
  synthesizer [13-14]
• Ron Kellum
  design
• Sammy Figueroa
  percussion [10]
• Sybil Thomas
  background vocals [9]
• Tawatha Agee
  background vocals [1.9-10, 1.13, 2.2, 2.10, 2.13, 2.15], vocal [7]
• Walter Afanasieff
  Hammond organ [13], Moog [14], acoustic guitar [14], arranger [14], bass guitar [13], drum machine [14], drums (drum set) [13], keyboard [13-14], producer [13-14], programming [13-14], synclavier [14], synthesizer [13-14]
• Wayne Warnecke
  synthesizer [6]
• Yogi Horton
  drums (drum set) [1.10, 2.7]
• Yvonne Lewis
  background vocals [9], vocal [7]
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Issues

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  The Essential Luther Vandross

  2x CD
  2002
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  The Essential Luther Vandross

  2x CD
  5 August 2003
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  The Essential Luther Vandross

  2x CD
  2003
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  The Essential Luther Vandross

  2x Digital Media
  16 October 2015
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  The Essential Luther Vandross

  2x CD
  2015