Street Life (The Crusaders album)

Street Life
Studio album by The Crusaders
Released 1979
Recorded 1979
Genre Jazz-funk
Length 39:21
Label MCA
Producer Wilton Felder, Stix Hooper and Joe Sample
The Crusaders chronology
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(1978)		 Street Life
(1979)		 Rhapsody and Blues
(1980)
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Allmusic [1]

Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band The Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band's commercial popularity. The title track was a Top 40 pop single (#36) and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart (#17).[2] "Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at #75[3], and was featured in both Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981, and Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Street Life" (Will Jennings, Joe Sample) – 11:18
  2. "My Lady" (Wilton Felder) – 6:43
  3. "Rodeo Drive (High Steppin')" (Sample) – 4:28
  4. "Carnival of the Night" (Felder) – 6:24
  5. "The Hustler" (Stix Hooper) – 5:18
  6. "Night Faces" (Sample) – 5:10

Personnel

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1979 Black Albums 3
1979 Jazz Albums 1
1979 Pop Albums 18

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Single Position
1979 Black Singles "Street Life" 17
1979 Club Play Singles "Street Life" 75
1979 Pop Singles "Street Life" 36

External links

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 140. 
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 66.