IV
by Toto
- Type: Album
- Released: 8 April 1982
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 41:51
- Community rating: 3.15/5 from 4 ratings
Artists on this release: Lenny Castro, Tom Scott, The Martyn Ford Orchestra, James Pankow, Bobby Kimball, Mike Porcaro, Steve Lukather, Joe Porcaro, Timothy B. Schmit, Ralph Dyck, Jim Horn, Jon Smith, David Hungate, Gary Grant, Tom Kelly
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Toto's fourth album is an absolute behemoth of slick, impeccably engineered 1980s studio rock. Dominated by massive hits like 'Africa' and 'Rosanna', 'IV' represents the ultimate synthesis of AOR and yacht rock, delivering incredibly lush, highly melodic, and undeniably uplifting pop-rock anthems driven by world-class session musicianship.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic
Tracklist
- Rosanna (5:30)
- Make Believe (3:43)
- I Won't Hold You Back (4:53)
- Good for You (3:17)
- It's a Feeling (3:05)
- Afraid of Love (3:51)
- Lovers in the Night (4:25)
- We Made It (3:55)
- Waiting for Your Love (4:12)
- Africa (4:55)
Credits
- Toto - primary artist, producer
- David Hungate - bass
- Jeff Porcaro - design concept [album package concept], drums, percussion, written-by
- Al Schmitt - engineer, recorded by [tracks]
- Greg Ladanyi - engineer, mixed by, recorded by [tracks]
- Tom Knox - engineer, recorded by [tracks]
- Bruce Heigh - engineer [additional engineering at hogg manor]
- David Paich - engineer [additional engineering at hogg manor], keyboards, vocals, arranged by [horns], backing vocals, written-by, arranged by [orchestral arrangements], lead vocals
- Dick Gall - engineer [additional engineering at hogg manor]
- Steve Porcaro - engineer [additional engineering at hogg manor], keyboards, vocals, lead vocals, written-by
- Steve Lukather - guitar, vocals, lead vocals, backing vocals, written-by, piano
- Joe Spencer - illustration
- Chet Bennett - lacquer cut by
- Fitzgerald Hartley - management [direction]
- Doug Sax - mastered by
- Glen Christensen - photography by
- Jim Hagopian - photography by
- Sam Emerson - photography by
- Jamie Ledner - recorded by [at record one]
- Lon LeMaster - recorded by [at record one]
- Niko Bolas - recorded by [at record one]
- David Leonard - recorded by [at sunset sound]
- Peggy McCreary - recorded by [at sunset sound]
- Terry Christian - recorded by [at sunset sound]
- Bobby Kimball - vocals, backing vocals, lead vocals, written-by
- Jerry Hey - arranged by [horns], trumpet
- Tom Kelly - backing vocals
- Lenny Castro - congas, percussion
- Jim Horn - saxophone, recorder
- Tom Scott - saxophone
- James Pankow - trombone
- Gary Grant - trumpet
- Jon Smith - saxophone
- James Newton Howard - arranged by [orchestral arrangements], conductor
- Marty Paich - arranged by [orchestral arrangements]
- Timothy B. Schmit - backing vocals
- John Kurlander - recorded by [strings]
- The Martyn Ford Orchestra - strings
- Mike Porcaro - cello
- Roger Linn - programmed by [synthesizer]
- Joe Porcaro - xylophone, timpani, marimba, percussion
- Ralph Dyck - synthesizer