Description
4th track from All Dressed Up (1982). Said to be Canada's answer to Christopher Cross, David Roberts positively oozed smooth. It didn't hurt that he was helped out by some big names in the positively oozing smooth biz like Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather, Jeff and Mike Porcaro, Bill Champlin, and Greg Mathieson. As for the subject matter, well, you just can't beat autumn! It's my absolute favorite time of year. Yours too, perhaps?
~thatMimosaGrove
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Song written by David Thomas Roberts
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Album Personnel
Michael Boddicker - Synthesizer
Bill Champlin - Vocals (Background)
Joe Chemay - Vocals (Background)
Paulinho Da Costa - Percussion
Jay Graydon - Executive Producer, Guitar
Jim Haas - Vocals (Background)
Jon Joyce - Vocals (Background)
Tom Kelly - Vocals (Background)
David Leonard - Synthesizer
Steve Lukather - Guitar
Greg Mathieson - Keyboards, Producer, Synthesizer
Gary Merbig - Saxophone
Jeff Porcaro - Drums, Percussion
Mike Porcaro - Bass
David Thomas Roberts - Composer, Keyboards, Primary Artist
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In 1982, Canadian session vocalist David Roberts decided to release his own album, receiving some pretty hefty production help from Greg Mathieson, known for his work with Barbra Streisand and Olivia Newton-John, among others. Two singles came off of Robert's All Dressed Up album, with the placid, afternoon feel of "Boys of Autumn" getting a bit of air time on mainly easy listening radio stations. The other single, styled much in the same fashion was "Anywhere You Run To," which sounded like something that England Dan & John Ford Coley or Seals and Croft would have put out. With Toto musicians Steve Lukather on guitar, Jeff Porcaro on drums, and brother Mike Porcaro playing bass guitar, All Dressed Up initiated a sturdy enough soft rock feel...
~Excerpt from an AllMusic Review by Mike DeGagne
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