Smooth Operator – Sade

Chart Position: 5

• Written by Sade Adu and Ray St. John
• Lead vocals: Sade Adu
• Keyboards: Andrew Hale
• Saxophone: Stuart Matthewman
• Guitar: Stuart Matthewman
• Recorded in London U.K.
• Produced by Robin Milar
• Sade is from South Africa
• This is Sade’s biggest U.S. hit single
• Later recorded by Party Service Band (1985), Mini Pops (1985), Mongo Santamaria (1987), Fania All Stars (1988), Greg Adams (1995), Ballroom Band (1995), Blowing Free (1996), Earl Reeves Quartet (1998), Ten Masked Men (1999), Hi Tide (2000), Lounge-O-Leers (2002), Senor Coconut & His Orchestra (2003), Laurent Voulzy (2006), Soul Incision (2006), Elena Paparizou (2006), Eduardo Braga (2007), Sitti (2007), Flavius T. (2007), Grace Mahya (2008), Carl Riseley (2008), Smooth Jazz All Stars (2010), Eight Group (2010), Dionne Bromfield (2011), Simon James (2012), Lou Bega (2013), Chris Mitchell (2013), Songmen (2012), Blue Champagne (2015), Nick Waterhouse (2017), Twisted Spritzer (2017), Campsite Dream (2017), Manu Lopez (2017), Deep Wave (2018), Mario Biondi (2018), Acoustic Heartstrings (2019) and many others

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