Track Listing
1. Give It to Me Baby
2. Ghetto Life
3. Make Love to Me
4. Mr. Policeman
5. Super Freak
6. Fire and Desire
7. Call Me Up
8. Below the Funk (Pass the J)
9. Give It to Me Baby
10. Super Freak
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Gerald Albright, Narada Michael Walden, Stevie Wonder, Teena Marie, The Temptations | | Producer: | Alonzo Miller, Rick James | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Rick James (vocals, arranger, guitar, bass, drums, timbales, timpani, percussion); Teena Marie (vocals); Tom McDermott (guitar, percussion); Larry Hansen (violin); Danielle, LeMelle (flute, alto & tenor saxophones); John Ervin (flute, trombone); Gerald Albright (flute); Cliff Ervin (piccolo, trumpet, flugelhorn); Roy Roper, Fernando Harkless (trumpet); Stevie Wonder (harmonica); Erskine Williams (Clavinet, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Levi Ruffin, Jr. (string synthesizer); Donny Keider (vibraphone); Oscar Alston (bass, percussion); Narada Michael Walden, Steve Price, Lanise Hughes (drums); Nate Hughes, Bugsy Wilcox, Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow (percussion); The Temptations, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Janet DuBois (background vocals).
Recorded at The Record Plant, Sausalito, California and Motown Studios, Hollywood, California between December 1980 & January 1981. Originally released on Gordy (1002M-1). Includes liner notes by Craig Werner.
Rick James had already reached the top of the R&B charts numerous times before STREET SONGS, but this 1981 release was the crossover breakthrough that earned him pop stardom. This is where his mix of P-Funk grooves and Blowfly lyrics hitched its wagon to some surefire pop hooks without losing any of the funk. The album is best remembered for its two enduring hits, "Give It To Me Baby" and "Super Freak," but the action doesn't stop there. James unleashes his inner Barry White on "Fire and Desire," a romance-dripping slow-jam duet with Teena Marie, and the tight, funky grooves of "Below the Funk" and "Call Me Up" are as irresistible as those of the album's better-known tracks. Oh, and just in case anyone wants to stop dancing long enough to think about it, STREET SONGS is supposedly a concept album about the street life of ladies of the night and their, um, business managers.
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