Dance with Me: The Best of Orleans (CD - 2005)

Additional personnel includes: Linda Ronstadt (vocals); Jerry Marotta (vocals, drums, percussion); Michael Brecker (saxophone); Blue Mitchell (trumpet).

Compilation producers: John Hall, Orleans.

Recorded between 1972 and 1979.

Includes liner notes by Barry Alfonso.

Personnel: Larry Hoppen (vocals, guitar, horns, keyboards); Jerry Marotta (vocals, drums, percussion); John Hall (guitar); Michael Brecker (saxophone); Blue Mitchell (trumpet); Wells Kelly (drums); Linda Ronstadt (background vocals).

This best-of features the music of one of the finest soft rock bands of the 1970s. Orleans' close harmonies and fresh, sophisticated sound made them popular both with audiences and among their musical peers. Highlighting their melodic, twin guitar approach, which they borrowed from the Allman Brothers, as well as irresistibly commercial material like the peppy "Still the One" and the lush, gorgeous "Dance With Me," this collection also features soft rock classics like the delicate "Sails" and the East Coast group's hymn to their spiritual home of California, the smoothly jazzy "Golden State." minimize