Looking at You, Looking at Me

Looking at You, Looking at Me is the seventh full-length studio recording from singer/songwriter/drummer/producer Narada Michael Walden. It was Walden's last album to be released by Atlantic Records and peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Top R&B albums chart.

The album's lead single "Black Boy" failed to chart. However, the cover of "Reach Out I'll Be There" reached No. 40 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.

Personnel
As listed on the back cover of the Looking at You, Looking at Me vinyl album:


 * Narada Michael Walden – lead vocals, drums, percussion (1, 4), acoustic piano (1 or 2)^, Prophet-5 (3, 5-9), horn arrangements (3, 5), timbales (8)
 * David Sancious – synthesizers (1, 2), OB-X kalimba (1), Oberheim OB-X (3, 4), keyboards (3), acoustic piano (4, 5), OB-X harmonica licks (6), OB-X blues licks (7), OB-X harmonica (9)
 * Mitchell Froom – Moog bells (1), gun shot (2)
 * Frank Martin – synthesizers (3-5), Rhodes piano (4), string synthesizer (6, 8), organ (7)
 * Mark Robertson – Mellotron (9)
 * Joaquin Lievano – guitars (1, 2), guitar solo (2)
 * Preston Glass – acoustic guitars (1, 2)
 * Corrado Rustici – finger snaps (2), guitars (3-6, 8), 50s guitar and solo (7), acoustic guitars (9), electric guitars (9)
 * Randy Jackson – bass (1-6, 8, 9), finger snaps (2), bass solo (5)
 * Herman Jackson – finger snaps (2)
 * Sheila Escovedo – percussion (4, 8)
 * Andy Narell – steel drums solo (8)
 * Marc Russo – alto saxophone (2-5, 7), alto sax solo (4, 7)
 * Jerry Hey – trumpet and flugelhorn (2-5), horn arrangements (2-5)
 * Chuck Findley – trumpet and flugelhorn (2-5)
 * Michael Gibbs – string arrangements (2, 4, 6)
 * Frankie Beverly and Maze – "Reach!" backing vocals (1)
 * Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
 * Kelly Kool – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8), role of "Tina" (7)
 * John Lehman – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
 * Myrna Matthews – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
 * Carla Vaughn – backing vocals (1-4, 6-8)
 * Jeffrey E. Cohen – "Chief of the S.F. Fire Department" (3)
 * Angela Bofill – lead vocals (4)

Handclaps on "Shake It Off"
 * Jim Gilstrap, Randy Jackson, Kelly Kool, John Lehman, Myrna Matthews, Dwayne Simmons, Carla Vaughn and Lisa Walden

^Walden is listed as having played acoustic piano on Track 1; however, no acoustic piano is evident on this track. Conversely, whoever plays the (clearly-audible) acoustic piano on Track 2 is uncredited; it is thus possible that Walden is miscredited with performing the piano on Track 1, when he in fact played it on Track 2.

Production

 * Narada Michael Walden – producer, arrangements
 * David Frazer – engineer
 * Ken Kessie – basic track engineer (4)
 * Maureen Droney – second engineer
 * Wayne Lewis – second engineer
 * Ray Pyle – second engineer
 * Leslie Ann Jones – final editing
 * Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
 * Norman Seeff – photography
 * Lynn Dreese Breslin – art direction
 * Gregory Digiovine – management
 * Adam's Dad Management Co. – management