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One Bad Habit is a vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 1980 by Warner Bros. Records. It was Franks’ sixth studio album and the first to receive significant radio play in the United States.

Track listing:
All tracks are written by Michael Franks, unless otherwise noted.

Side one
1. “Baseball” 3:50
2. “Inside You” 4:11
3. “All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go” 3:47
4. “Lotus Blossom” Michael Franks, Don Grolnick 4:15
5. “On My Way Home to You” 4:52
Side two
1. “One Bad Habit” 4:06
2. “Loving You More and More” 3:44
3. “Still Life” 4:12
4. “He Tells Himself He’s Happy” 5:11

Personnel:
Michael Franks – vocals, rhythm arrangements, BGV arrangements
Don Grolnick – Fender Rhodes (1, 7), clavinet (7), acoustic piano (8)
Tennyson Stephens – pianos (2), acoustic piano solo (2), Fender Rhodes (3–6, 9), clavinet (3), acoustic piano (9)
Larry Williams – synthesizers (4, 6), synthesizer arrangements (4)
David Spinozza – guitars (1, 7), acoustic guitar (2, 8), electric guitar (2, 8), rhythm guitar (6)
Hugh McCracken – guitars (3)
Rick Zunigar – guitars (3), acoustic guitar (4)
George Sopuch – rhythm guitar (4), electric guitar (4), guitars (5)
Eric Gale – guitars (4, 6, 9)
Neil Jason – bass (1, 7)
Dennis Belfield – bass (2–6, 9)
Eddie Gómez – acoustic bass (8)
Rick Marotta – drums (1–4, 7)
Ray Armando – percussion (1, 3), congas (3)
Lenny Castro – percussion (2, 5, 7)
André Fischer – rhythm arrangements, percussion (2, 5, 6, 9), tambourine (4), drums (5, 6, 8, 9)
Clare Fischer – string arrangements and conductor (2)
Yolande Howard – backing vocals (1, 9)
Petsye Powell – backing vocals (1, 9)
Silvia Shemwell – backing vocals (1, 9)

Horn section:

Jerry Hey – horns, horn arrangements and conductor (1, 3, 5), flugelhorn solo (7)
Larry Williams – horns, horn arrangements and conductor (6, 7, 9)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – horns, horn arrangements and conductor (6)
Larry Hall – horns
Kim Hutchcroft – horns

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