Thank you so much!! I love the A&M site. -- Toni Tennille

This is totally great. Brings back great memories of my years in Canada. -- Charly Prevost

This is totally great. Brings back great memories of my years in Canada. -- Charly Prevost

A friend forwarded the link to your site, it's amazing! -- Monique McGuffin, Graphics Coordinator

I have nothing but positive things to say about you and what you have done to help keep alive the spirit of A&M. -- Al Marks (Promotion, Artist Development)

Great site...thanks Leslie. -- J. B. Brenner

Thanks Les, I've spoken with more old friends from A&M in the last week than in the last decabe. All because of your site -- Alan Oken

Going through this site reminded me of what I loved about working for A&M. -- Colin Sowa

What a great site - Thank you for organizing it. You have continued the family spirit that Herb and Jerry worked so hard to create - and that is so hard to find otherwise. -- Sharon Steeley, Music Video Promotion

I was just talking to Derek Alpert today...and we had a blast pawing around on this website together. I think it's so cool that you did this! -- Doreen Ringer-Ross

Wow Leslie!! Lots of great work here... Love what you did! -- Randy Alpert (Captain Badazz)

Clyde Kaplan, Engineer, A&M Studios -- Thanks for putting together this great website about A&M Records.

This is great to see all the names of all of the friends of such a very special place. Thank you! -- Leigh Jackson, Artist Development

Wow, what an incredible site you've created! I can't believe you have not only the names of the Carpenters, but of even the real carpenters like the La Prell twins, etc. -- Jim McCrary, Photographer

This site is AMAZING! THANK YOU! As a fan...and as someone humbled and honored to be ON this list. Outstanding. -- Monte Warden

You sure have a buzz going. I've had 3 emails from A&Mers today alone. Good luck! -- Andy French, Director, Artist Relations & Artist Development

A&M Records was home to me in the '70s. Chuck, Brenda, Gil, Marsha, Rita Ross and family gave me my first intro to the music business and put me on the right track to my own family and an historic artistic career. Love to all. -- Ron Artis, Almo/Irving Music

Your website is absolutely ACE ACE ACE!!! It is great to see real top work and dedication towards a label that meant so much to many. -- Jay Schatz / Chris Skane, A&R / A&M Associated Labels

Your knowledge and research is both amazing, and from what I viewed, about 98% accurate. -- Randy Alpert (Capt. Badazz)

Thanks for this ambitious and remarkable site. Just bouncing around inside the site the other day brought back so many really wonderful memories of the time and place and people when magic was possible and all lights were green. -- Corb Donohue, National Director of Public Relations

I'm always amazed every time I spend time on the site and imagine the enormous amount of work and time it has taken you to build this. It's a smorgasboard of history... -- Frann Altman

Thanks so much Les. It's really an amazing site. -- Janette Rogers Sarabia, Director of Artist Relations

What a fabulous site! It certainly brings back a lot of memories… -- David Browde, College Promotions

The website is Great! It really took me back down memory lane. Keep up the good work and thank you! -- Janice Hague, International Promotions Manager, A&M Records GB

Thank you so much for all of your help. It is a great site. Thank you for helping to keep these bands relevant. -- Andrea Bricklin (Bricklin)

Thanks for this site--best of luck with it! -- David Bradstreet

Great site I just stumbled across, would appreciate my 'all access pass'. -- Jimmy Zisson, General Manager of A&M Records, New York

Your site is being passed around and mentioned to all ex A&M employees. Your site is great and I'd love to be a part. Thanks for your time and good luck. -- Joe James, Technical Manager, A&M Studios

What a great site, lots of memories. -- Paul McKenna

I love the website! -- Jewell Kumjian, A&M Studios Concierge

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Thanks, this is a great site. -- Barbara West, Sr. Director of Business / Legal Affairs

Keep up the great work on the site. -- Don Rodgers, Promotion Manager, Mid-Western Region, Canada

Fantastic Site! Great Work! -- Jean Pierre Guilbert, V.P. Promotion & Artist Development (A&M Canada)

Congratulations on a great web site. Thanks for all your efforts in making this site. -- Bill Morgan, Director, Technical Engineering, A&M Studios

Thanks, Les! It's so wonderful that you are so involved with the website. I have such fantastic memories of my time spent at A&M. It was definitely a magical place. -- Stacie Surabian, A&M Sales

Congratulations on your internet site. I would like to be included on your staff list as I worked for A&M in Toronto and London. -- France Tetreault-Thomson, Assistant A&R

You have made me feel like I have come home safely to family, exactly what the A&M spirit was all about. -- Babs Stock

I've just discovered your web site. Holy smoke!!!!! -- Geoffrey B. Schulman, Director of A&R Administration, Los Angeles

...very fun to see this....Many thanks for your efforts....Best -- Juliea 'Jools' Clarke

Your knowledge and research is both amazing, and from what I viewed, about 98% accurate. -- Randy Alpert (Capt. Badazz)

I was just talking to Derek Alpert today...and we had a blast pawing around on this website together. I think it's so cool that you did this! -- Doreen Ringer-Ross

Congratulations on your internet site. I would like to be included on your staff list as I worked for A&M in Toronto and London. -- France Tetreault-Thomson, Assistant A&R

It's a pretty interesting looking site and I'll check it out further. -- Robin Kirby, Western Regional Sales/Marketing Director

This is a great web site on A&M. -- Gary Mannon, A&M Studios

Glad to know that you have set up this site. What a neat way to stay in touch. Great job! -- Xander Smith (Other Star People)

It's a pretty interesting looking site and I'll check it out further. -- Robin Kirby, Western Regional Sales/Marketing Director

Going through this site reminded me of what I loved about working for A&M. -- Colin Sowa

Thanks for doing such epic work on the site. Salut! -- Max Hutchinson

Thanks Leslie for doing this. It's great to have this resource. You're awesome for keeping it going. -- Carmen DeVida

I'm so delighted to see it! Many of us have incredible memories and ongoing great comraderie from those years on The Lot....and I am so glad to see this happen now! -- Cheryl McEnaney, National Artist Development Manager

...very fun to see this....Many thanks for your efforts....Best -- Juliea 'Jools' Clarke

Thanks so much for keeping in touch and keeping so many of us in the loop! I couldn't agree more that A&M's biggest 'hit' is the legacy of warm comraderie and real friendship that our collective years there engendered. -- Cheryl McEnaney

Clyde Kaplan, Engineer, A&M Studios -- Thanks for putting together this great website about A&M Records.

Just a brief note to say thanks for ALL you do in keeping us A&M-ers consistently in the know. My years there were so wonderful and filled with fond memories. Thanks for keeping that alive. -- Miriam Heiman

Thanks for making the site and I'll be checking in to see what's happenin'. -- Richard Cottrell

Thank you Leslie. -- Al Cafaro, CEO, A&M Records

Thank you so much!! I love the A&M site. -- Toni Tennille

Thanks the site is awesome! -- David Abrahams, Audio Librarian

Thanks for this ambitious and remarkable site. Just bouncing around inside the site the other day brought back so many really wonderful memories of the time and place and people when magic was possible and all lights were green. -- Corb Donohue, National Director of Public Relations

Thanks for making the site and I'll be checking in to see what's happenin'. -- Richard Cottrell

This is a great site! Thanks for keeping the memories alive.... -- Jerimaya Grabher

Wow, what an incredible site you've created! I can't believe you have not only the names of the Carpenters, but of even the real carpenters like the La Prell twins, etc. -- Jim McCrary, Photographer

Fantastic Site! Great Work! -- Jean Pierre Guilbert, V.P. Promotion & Artist Development (A&M Canada)

Pretty cool site. Nice to see that the history of the label - which was its greatest asset - has not been forgotten. -- Brandon Costas, Sales Coordinator

Thank you for sharing with us and for your dedication to A&M Records. It's so wonderful to have a connection to my past. -- Sherry Jones Levy, A&M NYC

I have enjoyed the A&M website you created and visit it often. -- Chuck Beeson, Art Director

Thanks so much Les. It's really an amazing site. -- Janette Rogers Sarabia, Director of Artist Relations

It's good to see someone reminding us of the special organization A&M was -- John Hawkins (Edenstreet)

Thanks for doing such epic work on the site. Salut! -- Max Hutchinson

Great site....brings back a lot of memories. -- Aaron Jacoves, Director of A&R

I love that you're keeping our history alive. -- Mary Ann Johnson, Artist Relations

Congratulations Leslie on all the good work you do for the A&M community. -- Al Cafaro, President and CEO, A&M Records

I love that you're keeping our history alive. -- Mary Ann Johnson, Artist Relations

I love the website! -- Jewell Kumjian, A&M Studios Concierge

Your website is absolutely ACE ACE ACE!!! It is great to see real top work and dedication towards a label that meant so much to many. -- Jay Schatz / Chris Skane, A&R / A&M Associated Labels

Kudos to you for recognizing possibly the ultimate artist/people friendly label. -- Ed Rivadavia, Northern Midwest Promotion Manager

You sure have a buzz going. I've had 3 emails from A&Mers today alone. Good luck! -- Andy French, Director, Artist Relations & Artist Development

Great site I just stumbled across, would appreciate my 'all access pass'. -- Jimmy Zisson, General Manager of A&M Records, New York

You're right about the specialness of A&M. It's so hard to explain, but it really was unique. A Camelot, if you will. Thanks for your efforts -- Richard Pachter, Promotions

I had such a good time at A&M, so it's nice to still feel part of it. Keep up the good work with the website. -- Alex Hutchinson, A&M Records, Ltd., Art Department

I just saw the A&M website, very impressive. -- Larry Weintraub, Vice President of A&R

This is a great site! Thanks for keeping the memories alive.... -- Jerimaya Grabher

I have nothing but positive things to say about you and what you have done to help keep alive the spirit of A&M. -- Al Marks (Promotion, Artist Development)

I came across the site by co-incidence - congratulations! A great initiative and nicely done. -- Russ Curry, VP European Operations

The website is Great! It really took me back down memory lane. Keep up the good work and thank you! -- Janice Hague, International Promotions Manager, A&M Records GB

Thanks for all your amazing work with keeping us all connected. -- Doria Leong

Your site is being passed around and mentioned to all ex A&M employees. Your site is great and I'd love to be a part. Thanks for your time and good luck. -- Joe James, Technical Manager, A&M Studios

I am genuinely so happy to see this site--my daughter's picture is on the cover of one of those catalogs -- Rob Gold, Executive Director of Advertising and Merchandising, A&M Records

Thanks so much for all you do for all of us!!!! -- Monique Augusta

Thanks for putting together this great website about A&M Records. -- Clyde Kaplan, Engineer, A&M Studios

Thanks for all your hard work in gathering this fantastic web resource of one of the greatest companies that ever existed. -- Jim McCrary, Photographer

Thanks so much for keeping in touch and keeping so many of us in the loop! I couldn't agree more that A&M's biggest 'hit' is the legacy of warm comraderie and real friendship that our collective years there engendered. -- Cheryl McEnaney

Thanks for all the work you do for the website. -- Gary Mannon, A&M Studios

It is great to have a site for the A&M family. -- Mary (Sukkestad) Mack, Executive Secretary, International Dept.

The Vision - Howard Johnson

Stock Number

SP 4982

Matrix

SP 04982-A/B

Label

A&M Records

Country

United States

Format

vinyl album.

Released: 1985

Recording Notes

Sticker, custom liner

Track	Track Title	Track Time
1	Stand Up	00:04:21
2	Knees	00:05:31
3	So Tuff	00:04:50
4	Outta My Head	00:05:15
5	You've Got a Lot to Learn	00:04:09
6	Show Me How	00:04:46
7	All We Have Is Love	00:04:23
8	Older Girl	00:04:50

Chart	Peak	Date
Billboard R&B Albums	46	1985-9-14

Credit	Role Sort ascending
Terry Lewis	vocal
Lucia Newell	vocal
Howard Johnson	vocal
Gwen Traylor	vocal
Terry Lewis	synthesizer
Monte Moir	synthesizer
Howard Johnson	synthesizer
Fernando Harkles	sax
John McClain	remix
Paul McKenna	remix
Jermaine Jackson	producer
Monte Moir	producer
Howard Johnson	producer
Jimmy Jam	producer
John McClain	producer
Rick Timas	producer
Terry Lewis	producer
Vincent Brantley	producer
Lisa Powers	photography
Monte Moir	percussion
Terry Lewis	percussion
Fred Howard	mix assistant
Alex Haas	mix assistant
Jack Rouben	mix
Steve Hodge	mix
Michael Braver	mix
Terry Lewis	keyboards
Monte Moir	keyboards
Rick Timas	keyboards
Rick Timas	guitar
Jimmy Jam	executive producer
Howard Smiley	executive producer
Terry Lewis	executive producer
Scott Skidmore	engineer
Robert de la Garza	engineer
Tim Joquette	engineer
Steve Wiese	engineer
Bob Brown	engineer
Bill Bottrell	engineer
Rick Timas	drums
Howard Johnson	drum programming
Terry Lewis	drum programming
Monte Moir	drum programming
Melanie Nissen	design
Rick Timas	bass
Terry Lewis	bass
Kevin Spencer	background vocal
Karen White	background vocal
Doug Nelson	background vocal
Howard Johnson	background vocal
Vincent Brantley	background vocal
Joe Borja	assistant engineer
Chuck Beeson	art direction
Howard Johnson	arranger

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