sentence: personnel dan fogelberg - organ , acoustic guitar , guitar , piano , electric guitar , keyboard , vocals , moog synthesizer david briggs - organ , piano kenneth a. buttrey - percussion , drums farrell morris - percussion , vibraphone weldon myrick - dobro , guitar , pedal steel , steel guitar norbert putnam - bass , cello buddy spicher - fiddle , violin , viola glen spreen - strings production producer : norbert putnam engineers : gene eichelberger , lee hazen string arrangements : bill pursell , glen spreen photography : kenneth a. buttrey portraits : dan fogelberg covers amy holland recorded a cover version of '' stars '' by dan fogelberg on her 1980 debut album .