Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Butterfly Written-By – H. Hancock*, J. Burvick*	7:53
2	Shiftless Shuffle Written-By – B. Maupin*, B. Summers*, H. Mason*, H. Hancock*, P. Jackson*	7:10
3	I Thought It Was You Written-By – H. Hancock*, J. Cohen*, M. Ragin*	15:27

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – CBS/Sony Inc.

Credits

• Art Direction – Yoshio Nakanishi
• Backing Vocals, Organ [Hammond B-3], Synthesizer [Prophet, Yamaha Cs-40, Arp String Ensemble, Multi-moog], Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Webster Lewis
• Bass – Paul Jackson
• Coordinator [Production] – Atsuya Sano, Hiroshi Kanai, Keiichi Nakamura, Namihiko Sasaki, Yasohachi Itoh
• Crew [For Herbie Hancock] – Bill Watts, Brian Bell*, Larry Cell, Pat Quinn
• Design – Kazuyoshi Ujihara
• Drums – Alphonse Mouzon
• Engineer [Assistant] – Hirohiko Yamanaka, Takeshi Sukegawa
• Engineer [Mixing] – David Rubinson, Fred Catero
• Engineer [Recording] – Brian Bell*, Fred Catero, Tomoo Suzuki
• Guitar – Ray Obiedo
• Liner Notes – Yohzoh Iwanami*
• Percussion – Bill Summers
• Photography By [Cover] – Tadayuki Naitoh
• Producer – David Rubinson & Friends Inc.*
• Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Lyricon – Bennie Maupin
• Vocals, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Clavinet, Synthesizer [Oberheim, Prophet, Yamaha Cs-80, Mini-moog], Vocoder [Sennheiser] – Herbie Hancock

Notes

Recorded October 17 & 18, 1978 at CBS/SONY Studio, Tokyo

ⒸⓅ 1979 CBS Sony Inc.
Manufactured by CBS Sony Inc. (Tokyo Japan)

Disc:
Manufactured by CBS/Sony Records Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout: 38DP-39-1 1 A 1
• Other (SID Codes): none
• Rights Society: JASRAC

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
30AP 1032	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	CBS/Sony	30AP 1032	Japan	1979
WOU 1032	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Wounded Bird Records	WOU 1032	US	2014
SRCS 9565	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	SME Records	SRCS 9565	Japan	1999
FCPA 442	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	CBS/Sony	FCPA 442	Japan	1979
SICP 4048	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Sony Music Japan International Inc.	SICP 4048	Japan	2013

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