Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.2 | Roots Suite: Ajomora / Going Back to My Roots / Bawa Awa | 9:47 | Odyssey | I Got the Melody | Odyssey | Album |
| RCA Victor | AFL1-3910 |
| 1.2 | Roots Suite (Ajamora) (Going Back To My Roots) (Baba Awa) | 9:47 | Odyssey | Going Back To My Roots | Odyssey | Single |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | PC 9749 |
| 1.2 | Roots Suite: Ajomora / Going Back to My Roots / Bawa Awa | 9:47 | Odyssey | I Got the Melody | Odyssey | Album |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | PL 13910, RCALP 5028 |
| 1.2 | Roots Suite: Ajomora / Going Back to My Roots / Bawa Awa | 9:47 | Odyssey | I Got the Melody | Odyssey | Album |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | RPL-8098 |
| 1.4 | Going Back to My Roots | 9:50 | Odyssey | Native New Yorker | Odyssey | Album + Compilation |
| Collectables (US reissue label) | COL-CD-8500 |
| 1.5 | Going Back to My Roots | 9:49 | Odyssey | Funky Collector, Volume № 9 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Airplay Records | 520 089-2 |
| 3.11 | Roots Suite | 9:51 | Odyssey | Legends | Odyssey | Album + Compilation |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 – Oct 1, 2008) | 82876673692 |
| 1.2 | Roots Suite: Ajomora / Going Back to My Roots / Bawa Awa | 9:51 | Odyssey | I Got the Melody | Odyssey | Album |
| Big Break Records | CDBBRX0163 |
| 1.2 | Roots Suite | 9:50 | Odyssey | I Got the Melody (expanded edition) | Odyssey | Album |
| Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment), RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | |
| 3.4 | Roots Suite | 9:51 | Odyssey | Twelve Inch Eighties: People Hold On | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Crimson (UK budget comps; imprint of Crimson Productions Ltd.) | TWIN80001 |
| 1.2 | Roots Suite: Ajomora / Going Back to My Roots / Bawa Awa | 9:51 | Odyssey | I Got the Melody | Odyssey | Album |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | SICP-5513 |
| 2.10 | Roots Suite | 9:50 | Odyssey | The Essential Odyssey | Odyssey | Album + Compilation |
| Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment), RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | |
Relationships
| producer: | Steve Tyrell (American producer and vocalist) |
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| assistant mixer: | Brian Kornfeld |
| mixer: | Michael H. Brauer (engineer) Steve Tyrell (American producer and vocalist) |
| bass guitar [bass]: | Neil Jason (bassist) |
| drums (drum set): | Allan Schwartzberg |
| electric piano [Yamaha CP‐30] and piano [acoustic piano]: | Paul Shaffer (pianist, bandleader, Dave Letterman's sidekick) |
| guitar: | Jeff Mironov John Tropea |
| percussion: | Jimmy Maelen (percussion) |
| solo flugelhorn: | Gary Grant (brass) |
| solo guitar: | Bob Mann (US session guitarist) |
| solo soprano saxophone: | Michael Brecker (American jazz saxophonist, multi‐instrumentalist and composer) |
| synthesizer: | Bob Christianson |
| vocals: | Lillian Lopez Louise Lopez Billy McEachern |
| conductor: | Al Gorgoni |
| arranger: | Al Gorgoni |
| vocals arranger: | Steve Tyrell (American producer and vocalist) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | RCA Records (not for release label use! for the imprint, please use “RCA” instead) (in 1981) |
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| mixed at: | Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, United States |
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| recording of: | Ajomora (medley) Baba Awa (medley) Going Back to My Roots (cover, medley) |
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Related works
Ajomora
| lyricist and composer: | Al Gorgoni |
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| publisher: | Crystalane Publishing EKA Publishing Front Wheel Music |
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Baba Awa
| composer: | Al Gorgoni |
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| publisher: | Crystalane Publishing EKA Publishing Front Wheel Music |
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Going Back to My Roots
| lyricist and composer: | Lamont Dozier |
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| publisher: | EMI Blackwood Music Inc. EMI Songs Ltd. Maurice Starr Music ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., EMI Overseas Division, sub‐publisher for non‐Japanese works) フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部 (Fujipacific Music SBK Department) |
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| is the basis for: | Zipped Up (Going Back To My Roots) |
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