acoustic bass Meyer "Mike" Rubin
acoustic bass Susan Ranney
alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone Don Myrick
arranged by [horns], arranged by [strings] Tom Tom 84
cello Daniel Smith
cello Jan Kelley
cello Ronald Cooper
co-producer [production assistant] Larry Dunn
co-producer [production assistant] Verdine White
concertmaster [violins] Janice Gower
design [album design] Roger Carpenter
design [lettering design] Jim Wood
drums Fred White
drums Ralph Johnson
engineer [additional] Warren Dewey
engineer [assistant] Jack Rouben
engineer, remix George Massenburg
flute Abe Most
flute Fred Jackson, Jr.
flute Phil Ayling
flute Terry Harrington
french horn Alan Robinson
french horn David Duke
french horn Gale Robinson
french horn James McGee
french horn Marilyn Robinson
french horn Richard Gus Klein
guitar Al McKay
guitar Johnny Graham
harp Dorothy Ashby
illustration Shusei Nagaoka
management [exclusive representation] Cavallo-Ruffalo Management
mastered by Mike Reese
percussion Paulinho Da Costa
photography by Jürgen Reisch
piano Eduardo Del Barrio
piano Skip Scarborough
piano, synthesizer [oberheim, moog] Larry Dunn
producer Maurice White
tenor saxophone Andrew Woolfolk
trombone Garnett Brown
trombone George Bohanon
trombone Louis Satterfield
trumpet Chuck Findley
trumpet Michael Harris
trumpet Oscar Brashear
trumpet Steve Madaio
tuba Roger Bobo
viola Barbara Thomason
viola Linda Lipsett
viola Norman Forrest
viola Renita Koven
violin Barry Socher
violin Betty LaMagna
violin Blanche Belnick
violin Carl LaMagna
violin David Stockhammer
violin Haim Shtrum
violin Harris Goldman
violin Jack Gootkin
violin Lya Stern
violin Marcia Van Dyke
violin Mary Lundquist
violin Ron Clark
violin Ruth Henry
violin Sheldon Sanov
vocals, bass Verdine White
vocals, congas, percussion Philip Bailey
vocals, drums, kalimba Maurice White
Vocal Collaborations: Maurice White & Philip Bailey

Recorded at Hollywood Sound, Sunset Sound and The Burbank Studios, California.

Kalimba Staff: Leonard Smith, Julius West, Geri White, and Monte White.