Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Give It to Me Baby
2. Ghetto Life
3. Make Love to Me
4. Mr. Policeman
5. Super Freak
6. Fire and Desire - (with Teena Marie)
7. Call Me Up
8. Below the Funk (Pass the J)
9. Give It to Me Baby
10. Give It to Me Baby - (TRUE instrumental)
11. Super Freak
12. Super Freak - (TRUE instrumental)
DISC 2: LIVE IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, JULY 1981:
1. Introduction
2. Ghetto Life
3. Big Time
4. Come Into My Life
5. I'm a Sucker For Your Love - (with Teena Marie)
6. Square Biz - (featuring Teena Marie)
7. Fire It Up
8. Love Gun
9. Do You Want Some Funk? (Interlude)
10. Mary Jane
11. Super Freak
12. You and I
13. Give It to Me Baby
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Narada Michael Walden, Stevie Wonder, Teena Marie, The Temptations | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Street Songs: Deluxe Edition includes four 12 inch mixes and a live bonus disc.
Personnel includes: Rick James (vocals, arranger, guitar, bass, drums, timbales, timpani, percussion); Teena Marie (vocals); Alonzo Miller (spoken vocals); Tom McDermott (guitar, percussion); Larry Hansen (violin); Daniel LeMelle (flute, alto & tenor saxophones); John Ervin (flute, trombone); Gerald Albright (flute); Cliff Ervin (piccolo, trumpet, flugelhorn); Stevie Wonder (harmonica); William Rhinehart (saxophone, background vocals); Erskine Williams (Clavinet, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Levi Ruffin, Jr. (OBX synthesizer, strings, background vocals); Donny Keider (vibraphone); Narada Michael Walden, Steve Price (drums); Armando Peraza (percussion); The Temptations, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Jane't DuBois (background vocals).
Producer: Rick James.
Reissue producer: Harry Weinger.
Engineers include: Tom "Super" Flye, Rick "Port Hole" Sanchez, Bobby Brooks.
Recorded at The Record Plant, Sausalito, California; Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Hollywood, California; The Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California between December 1980 and July 1981. Originally released on Gordy (G8-1002M1). Includes liner notes by Craig Werner.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Although he is remembered almost as much for his legal problems and wild image as he is for his music, Rick James laid down some truly unassailable funk in the 1970s and '80s. 1981's STREET SONGS was probably his finest moment, and its 20th anniversary was celebrated by the release of this DELUXE EDITION. James pared away all the fat on this release to give us jams as transcendent as "Super Freak," "Give It To Me Baby," and "Fire and Desire," a duet with Teena Marie. Those three tracks alone should be enough to raise the disc to iconic status.
The two-disc DELUXE EDITION, however, also includes 12-inch mixes of "Super Freak" and "Give It to Me Baby," which are near-perfect extended dancefloor workouts.
The second disc presents a wealth of unreleased live material (recorded at a concert in California), which captures James and his band at the peak of their powers. Add to all this meticulously remastered sound and you have a funk classic raised to the level of perfection.
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