The producers in the vein of Phil Ramone receive the reputations to maintain thanks to the choices of their collaborators. Of course, some musicians call them for this very reason. They want to show the people who listen to them they take their job seriously. This might be my way of answering why Debbie Gibson called Mr. Ramone to helm one track on her Body, Mind, Soul that was seen as her attempt at getting some credibility, yet the latter sadly didn't occur. However, let's play a game – imagine someone else would have done the piece she did with Mr. Ramone. I guess the reception would have been different then – I sort of hear the tune as an album track on a Mariah Carey album from the same time –, since the entire enterprise wouldn't have been saddled with Mrs. Gibson's previous successes.