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A1	Free As The Wind Written-By – Joe Sample	6:17
A2	I Felt The Love Written-By – Stix Hooper*	5:10
A3	The Way We Was Written-By – Robert Popwell	5:24
A4	Nite Crawler Written-By – Larry Carlton	4:45
B1	Feel It Guitar – Roland BautistaPercussion – Paulinho DaCosta*Written-By – Stix Hooper*, Lamont Dozier, Larry Carlton, Robert Popwell, Wilton Felder	4:15
B2	Sweet N' Sour Written-By – Joe Sample	8:57
B3	River Rat Guitar – Roland BautistaWritten-By – Wilton Felder	2:29
B4	It Happens Everyday Guitar – Arthur AdamsWritten-By – Joe Sample	5:40

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – ABC Records, Inc.
• Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – ABC Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – ABC Records, Inc.
• Pressed By – MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville
• Recorded At – Hollywood Sound Recorders
• Published By – Four Knights Music
• Published By – Pal Dog Music

Credits

• Art Direction – Frank Mulvey
• Bass – Robert "Pops" Popwell*
• Design [Album] – Tim Ritchie
• Drums, Percussion – "Stix" Hooper
• Engineer, Mixed By – Rik Pekkonen
• Guitar – Dean Parks, Larry Carlton
• Keyboards – Joe Sample
• Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
• Orchestrated By [Strings & Horns] – Joe Sample
• Percussion [Special Percussion] – Ralph MacDonald
• Photography By – Ed Simpson
• Producer – Stewart Levine
• Producer [In Association With] – The Crusaders
• Saxophone – Wilton Felder

Notes

MCA Platinum Plus reissue MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville pressing with label variation.

Recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, December 1976.

Center labels:
℗ 1977 MCA Records Inc.
© 1980 MCA Records Inc.
Mfd. by MCA Records Inc.

Spine:
ABC Records, Inc.
Catalog# BT-6029.

Backcover:
abc records logo.
℗ 1977 ABC Records, Inc.
© 1977 ABC Records, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A label): BT-6029-A
• Matrix / Runout (Side B label): BT-6029-B
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched): BT-6029-A W2
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched): BT-6029-B W2
• Matrix / Runout (Side A&B runout stamped): ◈-P-◈
• Rights Society (A1 to A3, B1 to B4): BMI
• Rights Society (A4): ASCAP

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BT-6029	The Crusaders	Free As The Wind ‎(LP, Album, San)	ABC Blue Thumb	BT-6029	US	1977
MCA-37073, BT-6029	The Crusaders	Free As The Wind ‎(LP, Album, RE)	MCA Records, ABC Records	MCA-37073, BT-6029	US	1980
P-11520	The Crusaders	Free As The Wind = 旋風に舞う ‎(LP, Album, RE)	MCA Records	P-11520	Japan	1984
UCCU-90187	The Crusaders	Free As The Wind = 旋風に舞う ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, SHM)	MCA Records	UCCU-90187	Japan	2016
0062.711	The Crusaders	Free As The Wind ‎(LP, Album)	MCA Records	0062.711	Germany	1977