Street Songs
by Rick James
- Type: Album
- Released: 7 April 1981
- Label: Gordy
- Country: United States
- Length: 2:15:29
- Community rating: 3.66/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Rick James absolutely mastered his unique 'punk-funk' aesthetic on this monumentally successful, profoundly influential blast of synthesized R&B. Featuring iconic, heavily sampled tracks like 'Super Freak' and 'Give It to Me Baby', 'Street Songs' is a fiercely rhythmic, deeply sexual, and unapologetically hedonistic celebration of urban party culture.
Genres
Descriptors: hedonism, rhythmic, party
Tracklist
- Give It To Me Baby (4:08)
- Ghetto Life (4:21)
- Make Love To Me (4:48)
- Mr. Policeman (4:17)
- Super Freak (3:25)
- Fire And Desire (7:17)
- Call Me Up (3:53)
- Below The Funk (Pass The J) (2:36)
- Give It To Me Baby - 12" Version (5:42)
- Give It To Me Baby - Instrumental (6:48)
- Super Freak - 12" Version (7:05)
- Super Freak - Instrumental (3:33)
- Introduction - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (1:46)
- Ghetto Life - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (4:20)
- Big Time - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (7:07)
- Come Into My Life - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (4:14)
- I'm A Sucker For Your Love - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (8:27)
- Square Biz - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (7:00)
- Fire It Up - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (3:34)
- Love Gun - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (5:42)
- Do You Want Some Funk?! - Interlude / 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (2:21)
- Mary Jane - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (10:39)
- Super Freak - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (4:21)
- You And I - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (11:48)
- Give It To Me Baby - 1981/Live In Long Beach, CA (6:05)
Credits
- Rick James - primary artist, arranged by [horn arrangements], arranged by [string arrangements], backing vocals [singers], lead vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, drums, timbales, timpani [tympani], cover [cover concept], producer, written-by, arranged by, words by, music by
- Daniel LeMelle - arranged by [horn arrangements], arranged by [string arrangements], flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, handclaps
- Reggie Andrews - arranged by [string arrangements]
- Johnny Lee - art direction
- Ja'net DuBois - backing vocals [singers]
- Jackie Ruffin - backing vocals [singers]
- Julia Tillman Waters - backing vocals [singers]
- Lawrence Hilton Jacobs - backing vocals [singers]
- Levi Ruffin Jr. - backing vocals [singers], handclaps, synthesizer [string ensemble], synthesizer [obx], backing vocals
- Marci Thomas - backing vocals [singers]
- Maxine Willard Waters - backing vocals [singers]
- Melvin Franklin - backing vocals [singers]
- Pattie Brooks - backing vocals [singers]
- Teena Marie - backing vocals [singers], handclaps
- The Mary Jane Band - backing vocals [singers]
- The Temptations - backing vocals [singers]
- Oscar Alston - bass, percussion, handclaps
- Charles Veal Jr. - concertmaster [string session]
- Rollice Dale - contractor [string]
- Ginny Livingston - design
- Norman Moore - design [logo]
- Lanise Hughes - drums
- Narada Michael Walden - drums
- Steve Price - drums
- Michael Johnson - engineer [assistant]
- Tony Autore - engineer [assistant]
- Chris Bellman - engineer [mastering], mastered by, lacquer cut by, mastering
- Bobby Brooks - engineer [mixing], engineer [recording]
- Tom Flye - engineer [mixing], engineer [recording]
- Rick Sanchez - engineer [recording]
- Alonzo Miller - executive-producer, words by, music by
- Gerald Albright - flute [tenor]
- Tom McDermott - guitar, percussion
- Aaron Dublin - handclaps
- California St. Clair - handclaps
- Lisa Sarna - handclaps
- Victor Reed - handclaps
- Stevie Wonder - harmonica
- Erskine Williams - keyboards, clavinet, organ [hammond b3]
- Armando Peraza - percussion
- Bugsy Wilcox - percussion
- Nate Hughes - percussion
- Raul Rekow - percussion
- Ron Slenzak - photography by
- John Ervin - trombone, flute
- Fernando Harkless - trumpet
- Roy Poper - trumpet
- Cliff Ervin - trumpet, piccolo flute, flugelhorn [fluegelhorn]
- Donny Keider - vibraphone [vibes]
- Larry Hansen - violin