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Toto: Past to Present 1977-1990

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1990.05.20
Time:
 64:32
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.totoofficial.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Love Has the Power (Jean-Michel Byron / John Capek) - 6:32
[2] Africa (David Paich / Jeff Porcaro) - 4:59
[3] Hold the Line (David Paich) - 3:56
[4] Out of Love (Jean-Michel Byron / Steve Lukather) - 5:55
[5] Georgy Porgy (David Paich) - 4:08
[6] I'll Be Over You (Randy Goodrum / Steve Lukather) - 3:50
[7] Can You Hear What I'm Saying (Jean-Michel Byron / David Paich / Mike Porcaro) - 4:46
[8] Rosanna (David Paich) - 5:34
[9] I Won't Hold You Back (Steve Lukather) - 4:59
[10] Stop Loving You (Steve Lukather / David Paich) - 4:28
[11] 99 (David Paich) - 5:12
[12] Pamela (David Paich / Joseph Williams) - 5:12
[13] Animal (Jean-Michel Byron / David Paich) - 5:01

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Jean-Michel Byron - Lead Vocals, Producer
Joseph Williams - Lead Vocals, Producer
Bobby Kimball - Lead Vocals, Producer
Steve Porcaro - Keyboards, Producer
Jeff Porcaro - Drums, Percussion, Producer
Mike Porcaro - Bass, Cello, Producer
David Hungate - Bass, Cello, Producer
David Paich - Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Steve Lukather - Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Producer

Luis Conte - Percussion
Lenny Castro - Congas, Percussion
Michael Fisher - Percussion
Jim Horn - Saxophone
Chuck Finley - Horn
Gary Grant - Horn
Jerry Hey - Horn
James Pankow - Horn
Tom Scott - Horn

Jon Anderson - Vocals
Cheryl Lynn - Vocals
Timothy B. Schmit - Vocals

Tower of Power:
Greg Adams - Horn, Horn Arrangements
Lee Thornburg - Horn
Stephen "Doc" Kupka - Horn
Emilio Castillo - Horn
Tom Timko - Horn

John Bahler - Choir, Choir Arrangement, Choir Director
Susan Boyd - Choir
Alex Brown - Choir
Lynn Davis - Choir
Kevin Dorsey - Choir
Willie Green, Jr. - Choir
Debbie Hall - Choir
Phillip Ingram - Choir
Gene Morford - Choir
Darryl Phinnessee - Choir
Phyllis Saint James - Choir
Alfie Silas - Choir
Carmen Twillie - Choir
Luther Waters - Choir
Oren Waters - Choir
Maxine Willard Waters - Choir

James Guthrie - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Tom Knox - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
George Massenburg - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Bill Payne - Producer
Greg Ladanyi - Engineer, Mixing
Shep Lonsdale - Engineer
Al Schmitt - Engineer
Mike Reiter - Assistant, Assistant Engineer
Ken Allardyce - Assistant, Assistant Engineer
Doug Sax - Mastering
Larry Fitzgerald - Management
Mark Hartley - Management
Mark Ryden - Illustration

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Past to Present 1977-1990 is the first compilation album by Toto, released in 1990. It contains nine hit songs from the band's first seven albums, and four new songs recorded with new singer Jean-Michel Byron.

Mastered at The Mastering Lab, Hollywoord, California

Track 1, 4, 7, 13:
Bearsville Studios, New York (1990)
Schnee Studios, North Hollywood, California (1990)

Track 2, 8, 9:
Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, California (1982)

Track 3, 5:
Studio 55, Los Angeles, California (1977)

Track 6:
Villa Studios, Manor Studio & The Complex, Los Angeles, California (1986)

Track 10, 12:
The Complex, Los Angeles, California (1988)

Track 11:
Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, California (1988)




The compilation album Past to present marks out the David Paich era of Toto. Until 1990 David Paich (co-)wrote most of the Toto hits, some of them collected on this album. Next to these hits there are a couple of new songs (co-)written by Jean-Michel Byron (*), who supposed to become Toto's new lead vocalist. After a short period of time Byron didn't appear to be the ideal successor of Joseph Williams.

"Sony wanted a couple of new songs for our Greatest Hits album and they gave us a tape of Jean-Michel Byron, telling us that this was the vocalist we had to work with. (...) Jean-Michel is a good vocalist and artist, but he doesn't fit into the Toto style. His musical world is third world r&b. That's what he's doing great. (...) He tried to immitate Michael Jackson on stage, with dance steps and stuff. It drove us mad. Especially my brother Jeff. Jean-Michel also thought he could make big stars of Toto again. That kind of bullshit. That was the last time we listened to our record company!" (Mike Porcaro in music magazine Oor, October 3, 1992)

Lukather in 2004 about Byron: "So we do all this rehearsal and we go on tour, the first fucking gig and we see the guy putting on his fucking clothes. A little sheriff's badge on, he puts one golf glove on. We're thinking, man that's fucking funny, that's great, man that's a great joke. Hey says, “What are you talking about?” I go, “You're not going to go out there with a fucking glove, that's Michael Jackson's shit.” He said, “No it's not, it's my stuff.” I'm going, you've got to be fucking kidding me. We get on stage and we start the first tune, Love has the power and he starts dancing around like fucking Richard Simmons on acid. Some fucking fruity shit going on man. And the crowd is like looking at me and going, something's up. They're looking at him and flipping him the bird telling him to get off the stage. And I'm looking at Jeff Porcaro and he's looking at me going, what the fuck is that? I mean is was unbelievable…He thought he'd come to save the day. Like Christ had come down and blessed us. We get off the gig and we're like, what the fuck is that? We're nuts, we're psycho. You can't do that. He goes, “I'm going to make you all very famous.” He thought he was the shit, he was hysterical. And I was single, newly single at the time after my first divorce and I was out there for the chicks and every time I got with a chick, he'd try to get with her."

After the release of Past to present Toto operated more clearly as a collective. Steve Lukather got the role of lead vocalist and he got more and more influence in the songwriting and sound of Toto. The next album Kingdom of desire was the first Toto album with most of the songs written by the band as a whole.

© 2015 Steve Lukather & Arend Slagman



Toto's compilation is to be recommended in that it contains all four of the group's Top Ten hit singles -- "Hold the Line," "Rosanna," "Africa," and "I Won't Hold You Back." It also contains four more of Toto's 14 pop chart singles -- "Georgy Porgy," "99," "I'll Be Over You," and "Pamela." But that means it leaves out six chart entries, including the Top 40 hits "Make Believe," "Stranger in Town," and "Without Your Love." In their place are an album track from the most recent album, The Seventh One, and four newly recorded songs co-written and sung by the group's fourth lead vocalist, Jean-Michel Byron, who is more soulful than his predecessors, but no more memorable. As such, this is not the ideal Toto best-of and earns its "pick" designation over Toto IV only by virtue of its inclusion of the group's first hit, "Hold the Line."

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide
 

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