Steppin ' Out

 

 

Released in 1976 - Rocket Records PIG 2195

Released in 1998 on CD (Varèse Vintage VSD-5952)

PRODUCER: NEIL SEDAKA & ROBERT APPERE

 

 

 

 

Track Listing:

 

  1. Sing Me  (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
  2. You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine   (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
  3. #1 With A Heartache   (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
  4. Steppin' Out   (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
  5. Love In The Shadows   (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
  6. Cardboard California   (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
  7. Here We Are Falling In Love Again  (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
  8. I Let You Walk Away   (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
  9. Good Times, Good Music, Good Friends  (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
10. Perfect Strangers  (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
11. Bad And Beautiful  (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
12. Summer Nights   (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
 
BONUS TRACKS ON CD (Varèse Vintage VSD-5952) (1998)
13. (Baby) Don't Let It Mess Your Mind   (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
14. Time Waits For No One  (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
15. (Is This The Way To) Amarillo   (Neil Sedaka - Howard Greenfield)
16. Should've Never Let You Go (NEIL & DARA SEDAKA)  (Neil Sedaka - Phil Cody)
 
 

Musicians & Personnel (tracks 1-12)

NEIL SEDAKA - Live lead vocals, Acoustic piano

JAMES NEWTON HOWARD - Clavinet, Electric piano, synthesizer

BILLY PAYNE - organ

RUSS KUNKEL, NIGEL OLSSON, ANDREW STEELE - drums

PERCUSSION and handclappings - Robert Appère, Gary Coleman, Mark Howlett, Russ Kunkel, Nigel Olsson, Neil Sedaka

GARY COLEMAN - vibes and bells on "You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine"

STEVE CROPPER, DAVEY JOHNSTONE, DEAN PARKS, RITCHIE ZITO - electric guitars

DEAN PARKS - acoustic guitar, banjo

DAVEY JOHNSTONE - mandolin

"SNEEKY" PETE DRAKE - steel guitar, fiddle on "#1 With A Heartache"

LEE SKLAR, DAVID WINTOUR - bass

BOB and CHUCK FINDLEY, JIM HORN, DICK "SLIDE" HYDE, JACKIE KELSO, DON MENZA - horns

JACKIE KELSO - clarinet solo on "Good Times, Good Music, Good Friends"

CATHY COLLIER, DONNY GERRARD, NETTIE GLOUD, NIGEL OLSSON, BRENDA and BRIAN RUSSELL, NEIL SEDAKA, CARMEN TWILLIE - backing vocals

ELTON JOHN - backing vocal on "Steppin' Out"

 

Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders and Burbank Studios, Hollywood, 1976.

 

Tracks 1-13 : produced by Neil Sedaka and Robbert Appère

Track 14 : no information available

Track 15 : produced by George Martin

Track 16 : produced by Nei; Sedaka and Robbert Appère