New Affair

Personnel: Roland Bautista , Marlo Henderson, Greg Moore , Carlos Rios (guitar); Assa Drori, Don Palmer, Jerome Reisler, Harris Goldman, Marcy Dicterow, Marvin Limonick, Reginald Hill, Gina Kronstadt, Jerome Webster, Stanley Plummer, William Hymanson, Robert Lipsett, William Henderson , Arnold Belnick, Sheldon Sanov, Janice Gower, Ronald Clark, Endre Granat, Haim Shtrum (violin); Paula Hochhalter, Julianna Buffum, Ronald Cooper, Miguel Martinez, Larry Corbett, Frederick Seykora (viola); Donald Myrick, Jerome Richardson (saxophone); Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Judd Miller, Bobbie Bryant, Oscar Brashear, Bobby Rodriguez, Rahmlee Michael Davis (trumpet); Marilyn Robinson, Alan Robinson (French horn); Dick Hyde, George Bohanon, Maurice Spears, Louis Satterfield, William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr. , Bob Payne (trombone); Rick Kelly (organ); David Paich, Tennyson Stevens, Wayne Vaughn, Billy Meyers (keyboards); Ricky Lawson, Steve Ferrone (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
Audio Mixers: Maurice White; Tom Perry.
Recording information: Davlen Sound Studio, CA; George Massenburg Studios; Oceanway Recording Studio; Sound Recorders.
Photographer: Todd Gray.
This was the Emotions' final album for Maurice White's ARC label, and it wasn't among their more memorable outings. Their collective arrangements and harmonies were still solid, but the passion and energy that had marked their best singles was missing, while the production was routine and the arrangements lifeless and uninspired. They got a couple of moderate R&B chart hits out of it, but weren't the sparkling, vibrant ensemble they had been in the mid-'70s. ~ Ron Wynn