Kaleidoscope World (Swing Out Sister album)

Adapted from the liner notes of Kaleidoscope World.^[8]

Swing Out Sister

• Corinne Drewery – lead vocals, brass arrangements (1, 4, 10), string arrangements (1, 4, 10), additional backing vocals (2)
• Andy Connell – keyboards, brass arrangements (1, 4, 5, 10), string arrangements (1, 2, 4, 5, 8–10, 14), additional backing vocals (2), drum programming (11)

Additional Musicians

• Martyn Phillips – synthesizers, computer programming
• Jess Bailey – string synthesizer (6)
• Tim Cansfield – guitars (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9), electric guitar (2, 10)
• Vini Reilly – Spanish guitar (2)
• Phil Palmer – guitars (6)
• Chris Whitten – drums (1–3, 10)
• Martin Jackson – drum programming (5, 7–10, 14)
• Luís Jardim – percussion (1–8, 10, 12, 14), berimbau (8, 14)
• Frank Ricotti – glockenspiel (2–4, 6, 13), vibraphone (2–4, 13), snare drum (4), timpani (4, 7, 12), percussion (6), tubular bells (6)
• Jamie Talbot – saxophones (1)
• Phil Todd – saxophones (1)
• Dan Higgins – saxophones (2, 9)
• Dave Bishop – saxophones (6)
• Snake Davis – saxophones (6)
• Pete Beachill – trombone (1, 6)
• Bill Reichenbach, Jr. – trombone (2, 9)
• John Thirkell - trumpet (1, 6)
• Guy Barker – trumpet (1, 6), flugelhorn (4)
• Simon Gardner – trumpet (1)
• Gary Grant – trumpet (2, 9)
• Jerry Hey – trumpet (2, 9), horn arrangements (2, 9)
• John Barclay – trumpet (6)
• Paul Staveley O'Duffy – brass arrangements (1, 4, 5, 10), string arrangements (1, 2, 4, 5, 10), drum programming (4, 6)
• Jimmy Webb – orchestra arrangements and conductor (3, 7, 12, 13)
• Richard Niles – brass and string arrangements (6)
• Stephanie de Sykes – backing vocals (1)
• Clare Torry – backing vocals (1)
• Chyna Gordon – backing vocals (2, 3, 6–8)
• Derek Green – backing vocals (2, 3, 6–8)
• Nat Augustin – backing vocals (3, 7, 8)
• Dee Lewis – backing vocals (3, 6–8)

Orchestra (Tracks 3 & 7)

• Gavyn Wright – leader
• Andrew Findon – flute
• Graham Ashton and Mike Hobart – flugelhorn
• John Pigneguy and John Rooke – French horn
• Tommy Reilly – harmonica
• Helen Liebmann, Paul Kegg, Ben Kennard and Roger Smith – cello
• Mike Brittain and Chris Laurence – double bass
• Fiona Hibbert – harp
• Levine Andrade, Roger Chase and David Emanuel – viola
• Jim Archer, Bill Benham, Mark Berrow, Elizabeth Edwards, Roger Garland, Wilf Gibson, Tim Good, John Kitchen, Peter Oxer, George Robertson, Godfrey Salmon, Rolf Wilson and Gavyn Wright – violin
• Lance Ellington – vocals

• Producers – Paul Staveley O'Duffy (Tracks 1–10 & 12–14); Swing Out Sister (Track 11).
• Engineers – Paul Staveley O'Duffy (Tracks 1–10 & 12–14); Stuart James (Track 11).
• Additional Engineers – Howard Bernstein, Richard Edwards and Roland Herrington.
• Recorded at Lillie Yard Studios, Master Rock Studios and Sarm West Studios (London, UK).
• Sleeve Design – Trevor Johnson and Tony Panas
• Photography – Mark Bayley

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