It Ain’t Easy

~ Recording by Dee Dee Bridgewater

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3It Ain’t Easy3:34Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)SD 18188
1.3It Ain't Easy3:34Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-80760-2
1.3It Ain't Easy3:34Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterAlbum
  • JP2013-09-25
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Warner Music Japan (primary imprint of Warner Music Japan, Inc.; do not use for copyright/publisher/etc. relationships!)8122-79576-4, WPCR-27445
1.3It Ain't Easy3:32Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee Bridgewater / Just Family / Bad for Me / Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2017-01-17
RobinsongsQROBIN42CDD

Relationships

engineer:Gregg Hamm (US engineer)
Jerry Masters (US bassist & engineer, in The Hombres)
Steve Melton (engineer)
producer and mixer:Stephen Y. Scheaffer
bass guitar:David Hood (Muscle Shoals, AL guitarist and trombonist)
drums (drum set):Roger Hawkins (drummer and producer)
guitar:Pete Carr (US guitarist)
Jimmy Johnson (guitar, producer, Muscle Shoals rhythm section)
keyboard:Barry Beckett
background vocals:Vivian Cherry
Gwen Guthrie (US singer, songwriter & pianist)
Lani Groves
lead vocals:Dee Dee Bridgewater
strings arranger:Harold Wheeler
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Atlantic Recording Corporation (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor within the US) (in 1976)
recorded at:Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, United States
recording of:It Ain’t Easy

Related works

It Ain’t Easy

lyricist and composer:Allen Toussaint
publisher:Screen Gems–EMI Music, Inc. (USA, affiliated with BMI)
Warner–Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label)
ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部 (Warner/Chappell Music Japan K.K., Synch Division)
イーエムアイ音楽出版 フジパシフィック事業部 (EMI Music Publishing Japan, Fujipacific Division) (until 2021-06-30)
ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング フジパシフィック事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., Fujipacific Division) (from 2021-07-01 to present)