Sweet Freedom (Michael McDonald album)

Sweet Freedom (also known as Sweet Freedom – The Best of Michael McDonald in some countries) is a compilation album by American singer and songwriter Michael McDonald, released in 1986 on the Warner Bros. label.

Content

The compilation includes singles and album tracks from Michael McDonald's first two solo studio albums, If That's What It Takes (1982) and No Lookin' Back (1985), along with duets with James Ingram ("Yah Mo B There"), Patti LaBelle ("On My Own") and one song from when McDonald was lead singer of the rock band The Doobie Brothers ("What a Fool Believes"). The album's title track, "Sweet Freedom", was a newly recorded song and featured on the soundtrack to the 1986 film Running Scared.

Commercial performance

Sweet Freedom reached No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart and is McDonald's most successful album in the UK.

Track listing

Production

• Track 1 produced by Rod Temperton, Dick Rudolph and Bruce Swedien
• Tracks 2, 6, 8 & 9 produced by Michael McDonald and Ted Templeman; engineered and mixed by Ross Pallone
• Track 3 produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions
• Tracks 4, 5, 10 & 12 produced by Ted Templeman and Lenny Waronker
• Track 6 remixed by Humberto Gatica
• Track 7 produced and arranged by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager; executive producer – Patti LaBelle
• Track 11 produced by Ted Templeman; engineered by Donn Landee
• Album remastered by Lee Herschberg

Charts

Certifications

References