Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Any Love
2. So Amazing
3. Wait For Love
4. Power Of Love / Love Power
5. For You to Love
6. I (Who Have Nothing) - (with Martha Wash)
7. Anyone Who Had a Heart
8. House Is Not a Home, A
9. Never Too Much
10. Since I Lost My Baby
11. Stop to Love
12. It's Over Now
13. Your Secret Love
14. Superstar
15. Here and Now
DISC 2:
1. Knocks Me Off My Feet
2. Goin' Out of My Head
3. If Only For One Night
4. Creepin'
5. She's So Good to Me
6. Give Me the Reason
7. She Loves Me Back
8. Night I Fell in Love, The
9. If This World Were Mine - (with Cheryl Lynn)
10. Don't Want to Be a Fool
11. There's Nothing Better Than Love - (with Gregory Hines)
12. How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye - (with Dionne Warwick)
13. Love the One You're With
14. Endless Love - (with Mariah Carey)
15. I Want the Night to Stay
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Cheryl Lynn, Dionne Warwick, Marcus Miller, Mariah Carey, Michael White, Patti Austin, Paul Jackson, Jr., Paulinho Da Costa | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Luther Vandross, Martha Wash, Cheryl Lynn, Dionne Warwick, Mariah Carey (vocals); Doc Powell, Georg Wadenius, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar);
Nat Adderley, Jr. (piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Marcus Miller (keyboards, synthesizer, bass, background vocals); John "Skip" Anderson (synthesizer, programming); Anthony Jackson, Tinker Barfield (bass); Yogi Horton, Buddy Williams (drums); Steve Croon (bongos, congas); Paulinho Da Costa (congas, percussion, chimes); Bashiri Johnson, Michael White (percussion); Jason Miles (programming); Fonzi Thornton, Phil Perry, Phillip Ingram, Ava Cherry, Cissy Houston, Lisa Fisher, Darlene Love, Tawatha Agee (background vocals).
Producers: Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller, Nat Adderley, Jr., Walter Afanasieff.
Compilation producers: Leo Sacks, Ray Bardani.
Recorded between 1982 & 1996. Includes liner notes by OJ Lima.
This is part of the "Essential Collection" series.
This collection documents the two-decades-plus recording career of R&B icon Luther Vandross. Even before he started putting out records under his own name, he was a first-call session singer (he's the one who created and sang the chorus hook on David Bowie's "Young Americans," for just one example). Throughout the '80s and the '90s, he was (both commercially and aesthetically) one of the most consistently successful R&B singer/songwriter/producers. This healthy two-disc selection of highlights from the impressive Vandross catalogue moves deftly from heartfelt ballads ("A House is Not a Home") to percolating, poppy numbers ("Never Too Much"), spotlighting the man's mellifluous voice and tasteful phrasing at each turn. This is quite clearly the definitive career summary for this deeply influential R&B titan.
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