# Looking at You, Looking at Me

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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.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen, except where noted.

## 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

## Charts

| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
| US Top R&B Albums (Billboard) | 51 |