Gettin' High ♫ Gino Vannelli

From «Storm At Sunup» 1975 A&M Records
Written By, Arranged By: Gino Vannelli
Producer: Gino Vannelli, Joe Vannelli

Credits

Backing Vocals – Ross Vannelli, Sally Stevens
Bass [Synthesizer] – Richard Baker
Congas – Sergio Pastora
Drums – Graham Lear
Electric Piano – Joe Vannelli
Guitar – Jay Graydon
Harmonica – Don Bailey
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Organ – Richard Baker
Percussion – John J. Mandel
Piano – Joe Vannelli
Soprano Saxophone – Jerome Richardson
Synthesizer – Joe Vannelli, Richard Baker
Talking Drum – Sergio Pastora
Tenor Saxophone – Jerome Richardson

Born  June 16, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec,  Gino Vanelli is a singer, songwriter, musician and composer.
As a child, Gino's greatest passion was music, and he began playing percussion at an early age. By the age of 15, Gino began writing songs. Ranging from soul to soft rock,  Gino Vannelli earned several hits during the 1970s, including "People Gotta Move" and "I Just Wanna Stop." 
Vannelli grew up in an ethnic Italian family in Montreal, Canada. He was in bands since boyhood, released his first single as a teen and talked his way into a record deal with Herb Alpert's A&M Records at age 21. His brothers Joe and Ross also remain active in the music business.
Gino Vannelli rose to stardom with the release of six albums in six years, ending with the double-platinum "Brother to Brother" in 1978. His song "I Just Wanna Stop" reached No. 4 on the Billboard singles chart in the U.S. (and No. 1 in Canada) and earned his first Grammy nomination.
He then signed with Arista Records, and his next album included his second top-10 single, "Living Inside Myself."
It's a stretch to call someone boyish when he's in his early 60s, yet Vannelli maintains the curly locks, piercing eyes, trim figure in torn jeans and that voice – always, that voice – that launched him into stardom with hits like "I Just Wanna Stop" and "Living Inside Myself" in the 1970s and '80s.
While teaching a class behind the unmarked door of his Troutdale studio on a recent August afternoon, his bespectacled eyes fixed on a monitor, Vannelli seems to be as much computer geek as an artist with admirers around the world.
He works on a music-editing program, tapping his computer keyboard and dragging bytes of pixilated lyric around the screen, like a painter uses a brush to pull pigment across a canvas. He touches a final key and a strand of rich vocals – "Fell asleep with you next to me, but I woke up alone in my room" – emerges from the speakers.
The music would sound polished to most observers, but the man many consider an American master hears imperfection in the key of a single "i" in his student's song. Vannelli quickly pastes in a fragment of sound from a different take for another listen. 
More than four decades into his music career, Gino Vannelli still makes women swoon at his concerts.

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