Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams
03/12/1996 | Sony
Lyrics from Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams
All Music Guide Review
This 16-track, 72-and-a-half-minute compilation contains Deniece Williams' two number one pop/R&B hits, "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" (a duet with Johnny Mathis), as well as her remake of "It's Gonna Take a Miracle," an R&B number one and Top Ten pop hit, and "Free," which just missed the top of the R&B chart and made the pop Top 40. Otherwise, the collection is somewhat idiosyncratic, compilation producer Leo Sacks' idea of Williams' best, rather than her greatest hits. Her success on the R&B singles chart, where she scored 18 Top 40 hits, is shortchanged, as the set fails to contain such major R&B hits as "Never Say Never" and "You're All I Need to Get By." At the same time, Sacks finds room for the eight-minute album track "If You Don't Believe" and Williams' early gospel composition "God Is Amazing." Such tracks serve to emphasize the diversity in Williams' catalog, but R&B fans may find the set wanting. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams Track Listing
Credits of Gonna Take a Miracle: The Best of Deniece Williams
- Steve Madaio
- Trumpet
- George Massenburg
- Engineer
- Tim May
- Guitar
- Al McKay
- Guitar
- George Merrill
- Keyboards, Vocals (Background)
- Sidney Muldrow
- French Horn
- Don Murray
- Engineer
- Don Myrick
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Bill Neale
- Guitar, Vocals (Background), Producer, Arranger, Conductor
- Jeff Porcaro
- Percussion, Drums
- Ray Parker, Jr.
- Guitar, Vocals (Background), Producer
- George Patterson
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Jerry Peters
- Keyboards, Producer
- Greg Phillinganes
- Keyboards
- Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin
- Guitar
- Lee Ritenour
- Guitar
- Sylvester Rivers
- Keyboards, Rhythm Arrangements
- Alan Robinson
- French Horn
- Gale Robinson
- French Horn
- Marilyn Robinson
- French Horn
- Dean Rod
- Engineer
- Jack Rouben
- Engineer
- John Rowin
- Guitar
- Shannon Rubicam
- Vocals (Background)
- Michel Rubini
- Keyboards
- Louis Satterfield
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Denny Seiwell
- Percussion, Drums
- Ed Shay
- Percussion, Drums
- David Sheilds
- Bass
- Charles Stepney
- Producer
- Sheridon Stokes
- Woodwind
- Arthur Stoppe
- Engineer
- Joe Tarsia
- Engineer
- Tom Tom 84
- Horn Arrangements, Mixing
- Tommy Vicari
- Engineer
- Larry Washington
- Percussion, Drums, Executive Producer
- Maxine Willard Waters
- Vocals (Background)
- Oren Waters
- Vocals (Background)
- Ernie Watts
- Woodwind
- Verdine White
- Bass, Vocals
- Andrew Woolfolk
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Robert Zimmitti
- Percussion, Drums
- Leo Sacks
- Compilation Producer
- Mike Tarsia
- Engineer, ?
- Leland Sklar
- Bass
- Tom "Curly" Ruff
- Digital Mastering, Mastering
- Tony Sellari
- Artwork, Art Direction
- Freddie White
- Percussion, Drums
- Murray Dvorkin
- Engineer
- Nathan Watts
- Bass, Vocals (Background)
- Viriginia Prescott
- Liner Notes
- Tommy Vig
- Percussion, Drums
- David Foster
- Keyboards, Producer, Mixing
- Bill Champlin
- Vocals (Background)
- Gene Page
- Arranger, Horn Arrangements, Mixing, Conductor
- David T. Walker
- Guitar
- Michael Sembello
- Guitar
- Randall Aldcroft
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Jeanne Ashby
- Harp
- Bob Babbitt
- Bass, Percussion
- Michael Baird
- Percussion, Drums
- Mike Baird
- Percussion, Drums
- Sidney Barnes
- Vocals (Background)
- Jeff Baxter
- Guitar
- Thom Bell
- Arranger, Keyboards, Producer, Vocals (Background), Conductor
- Dick Bogert
- Engineer
- George Bohannon
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Oscar Brashear
- Trumpet
- Ollie E. Brown
- Percussion, Drums
- Carl Carwell
- Vocals (Background)
- Peter Chaikin
- Engineer
- Dyanne Chandler
- Vocals (Background)
- Gary Coleman
- Vocals (Background), Vibraphone, Vibraslap
- Charles Collins
- Percussion, Drums
- Paulinho Da Costa
- Percussion, Drums
- Dirk Devlin
- Engineer
- Warren Dewey
- Engineer
- Don Renaldo
- Strings, Horn
- Larry Dunn
- Keyboards
- Nathan East
- Bass, Percussion
- Scott Edwards
- Bass
- Bobby Eli
- Guitar
- Alan Estes
- Percussion, Drums
- Larry Farrow
- Keyboards
- Charles Fearing
- Guitar
- Russell Ferrante
- Keyboards
- Chuck Findley
- Trumpet
- Jay Gallagher
- Engineer
- David Garibaldi
- Percussion, Drums, ?
- Humberto Gatica
- Engineer
- Ray Gerhardt
- Engineer
- Mitch Gibson
- Engineer
- Jack Gold
- Producer
- Bill Green
- Woodwind
- Ed Greene
- Percussion, Drums
- Mick Guzauski
- Engineer
- Terry Harrington
- French Horn, Woodwind
- Michael Harris
- Trumpet
- John Heitmann
- French Horn, Woodwind
- Carl Helm
- Vocals (Background)
- Marlo Henderson
- Guitar
- Jerry Hey
- Horn Arrangements
- Steve Hodge
- Engineer
- David Hungate
- Bass, Vocals
- Paul Jackson, Jr.
- Guitar
- Joseph B. Jefferson
- Vocals (Background)
- Louis Johnson
- Bass
- Ricky Lawson
- Percussion, Drums
- Charles Loper
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Steve Lukather
- Guitar
- Philip Bailey
- Vocals (Background)
- Deniece Williams
- Vocals, Vocals (Background), Producer, Main Performer
- Johnny Mathis
- Performer
- Maurice White
- Percussion, Drums, Vocals (Background), Producer
- Dorothy Ashby
- Harp
- George Duke
- Keyboards, Producer
- Richard Elliot
- Lyricon
- Victor Feldman
- Vocals (Background), Vibraslap, Vibraphone
- Plas Johnson
- French Horn, Woodwind
- Lee Oskar
- Harmonica
- Azar Lawrence
- Trombone, Trumpet
- Ray Pizzi
- French Horn, Woodwind















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