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Black Butterfly (song)

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Released
  
1984

Genre
  
Soul

Label
  
Columbia AS 1941 (US)

Format
  
7" vinyl, 12" vinyl

Length
  
4:25 (12" version)

Writer(s)
  
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil

"Black Butterfly" is a song written by the well-established song-writing duo Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in 1982, and most famously recorded by American singer-songwriter Deniece Williams. The Williams recording was released in 1984 for Columbia Records and is on her 1984 album Let's Hear it for the Boy. The B-side is a song called "Blind Dating", another album feature.

Contents

The single peaked at number 22 on the Billboard R&B chart.

1984 release

12" vinyl
  • US: Columbia / AS 1941
  • Personnel

  • Michael Sembello – electric guitar
  • Ricky Lawson – drums
  • Nathan East – bass guitar
  • Russell Ferrante – Rhodes electric piano, piano
  • Richard Elliot – Lyricon
  • George Merrill, Roosevelt Christmas, Shannon Rubicam – background vocals
  • George Duke – Prophet V keyboards
  • Production

  • Mitch Gibson – engineer, recorded by
  • References

    Black Butterfly (song) Wikipedia


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