• Ray Charles – vocals, piano • Directed by Bill Hughes • Marshall McDonald – Lead alto saxophone, flute • Grant Langford – 2nd alto saxophone •
Doug Lawrence – 1st tenor saxophone • Doug Miller – 2nd tenor saxophone • John Williams – baritone saxophone • Dave Keim – Lead trombone • Clarence Banks – 2nd trombone • Alvin Walker - 3rd trombone • Barry Cooper – bass trombone • Mike Williams - Lead trumpet •
Scotty Barnhart – 2nd trumpet • Shawn Edmonds – 3rd trumpet • Endré Rice – 4th trumpet •
Joey DeFrancesco – organ • Tony Suggs – piano •
James Leary – double bass • Will Matthews – guitar •
Butch Miles – drums
Backing vocals •
Patti Austin • Maxi Anderson • Lynne Fiddmont • Lorraine Perry • Sharon Perry • Darlene Perry • Valerie Pinkston • Sandy Simmons
Additional musicians •
Wayne Bergeron •
Chuck Berghofer • Jim Cox • John Chiodini • Andy Martin
Technical •
Quincy Jones – arranger •
John Clayton – arranger •
Roger Neumann – arranger •
Larry Muhoberac – arranger •
Shelly Berg – arranger, conductor, musician • Tom Scott – arranger, conductor • Bill Hughes – orchestra director • Aaron Woodward – executive producer • Bill Airey Smith – engineer • Bill McKinney – assistant engineer • Charles Paakkari – engineer •
Doug Sax – mastering • Don Murray – engineer, mixing • Eric Weaver – assistant engineer •
Gregg Field – conductor, engineer, producer, vocal arrangement • Joe Adams – executive producer, producer • Joe Brown – assistant engineer • John Burk – executive producer, producer • Paul "Scooby" Smith – assistant engineer • Paul Hamann – assistant engineer • Sanwook Nam – mastering • Seth Presant – engineer • Steve Genewick – engineer Source: ==References==