Secret Combination (Randy Crawford album)

The Globe and Mail wrote that Crawford "manages to sing in every style from jazz to blues to middle-of-the-road to country, and makes it all sound wonderfully unique."^[2]

AllMusic awarded the album with four stars and its review by Ron Wynn states: "Randy Crawford made even more noise on the urban contemporary and R&B front in 1981 with this album, one of her most successful ever from a chart and hit standpoint".^[1] In February 1982, Crawford won the award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 1982 Brit Awards.^[3]

1. "You Might Need Somebody" (Tom Snow, Nan O'Byrne) — 4:17
2. "Rainy Night in Georgia" (Tony Joe White) — 4:21
3. "That's How Heartaches Are Made" (Ben Raleigh, Bob Halley) — 2:55
4. "Two Lives" (Mark T. Jordan) — 3:47
5. "You Bring the Sun Out" (Tom Snow, Jessie Dixon) — 3:47
6. "Rio de Janeiro Blue" (Richard Torrance, John Haeny) — 4:16
7. "Secret Combination" (Tom Snow, Franne Golde) — 3:23
8. "When I Lose My Way" (Turley Richards) — 3:43
9. "Time for Love" (Leon Russell) — 4:15
10. "Trade Winds" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) — 4:58

• Leon Pendarvis – keyboards and arrangements
• Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar
• Jeff Porcaro – drums
• Steve Lukather – guitar
• Dean Parks – guitar
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Robben Ford – electric guitar on "Two Lives"
• Ernie Watts – flute on "Rio de Janeiro Blue"
• Neil Larsen – organ on "When I Lose My Way", "Trade Winds" and "Rainy Night in Georgia"
• Larry Williams and Bill Reichenbach – horn arrangements on "When I Lose My Way"
• Bill Reichenbach – horn arrangements on "You Might Need Somebody"
• Horn Section
  • Larry Williams
  • Bill Reichenbach
  • Gary Herbig
  • Jim Horn
  • Chuck Findley
• Background Vocals
  • Phyllis St. James
  • Marti McCall
  • Petsye Powell
  • Alphanette Silas

• Al Schmitt – engineering, mixing
• Don Henderson, Stewart Whitmore – assistant engineers
• Tommy LiPuma – production
• Mike Reese – vinyl mastering
• Lee Herschberg – CD mastering