Tag: Rick James

Eddie Murphy – Party All The Time (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985

Originally posted September 15, 2011

“Party All the Time” is a 1985 single by comedian and actor Eddie Murphy, written and produced by Rick James and Kevin Johnston. It was the lead single from Murphy’s debut album How Could It Be. The single was recorded at James’ home studio in Buffalo, New York. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, behind “Say You, Say Me” by Lionel Richie. Rick James also provided vocals for the song.

The lyrics are a lament by the singer that despite the expensive, extravagant things he lavishes on his girlfriend, she much prefers spending time going out clubbing, dancing, partying, as well as flirting and cheating with other men, rather than being with her boyfriend and remaining faithful to him.

SIDE A:
Party All The Time (12″ Version) 5:18

SIDE B:
Party All The Time (Instrumental) 7:05

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

Year Single Chart Position
1985 Party All The Time U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #2
1985 Party All The Time U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks #8
1985 Party All The Time U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #7
1985 Party All The Time U.S. Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles #19

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia ‎– 44-05280
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Single
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style: Synth-pop, Funk

CREDITS:
Design – Nancy Greenberg
Engineer – Thomas Flye*
Executive-Producer – Larkin Arnold
Mastered By – SM*
Photography By – Lynn Goldsmith
Producer, Arranged By, Written-By – Rick James

NOTES:
Uncredited uptempo remix of an LP cut.
“Special Version from the Columbia LP: “How Could It Be”

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION BY:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
DAC/Phono Pre-amp: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2, ocenaudio
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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Mary Jane Girls – In My House (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985

“In My House” is a song produced, written and arranged by American musician Rick James and recorded by his protégées, the Mary Jane Girls, for their second studio album Only Four You (1985). It was released as the album’s lead single in October 1984, by Motown Records. In the United States, the single went to number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in April 1985 and remained atop the chart for two weeks. It was also a top-ten hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number seven on the Hot 100 in June 1985 and remained in the Top 40 for 12 weeks. It is the group’s biggest hit and their only Top 40 hit, although they have had other singles succeed on both the R&B and Dance singles charts.

In 1984, the Parents Music Resource Center was organized in the United States to draw attention to music which the group believed contained inappropriate content for children. “In My House” was chosen on the group’s “Filthy Fifteen” list due to its alleged sexual innuendo. However, during the VH1 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s program, the group went on record as saying the song is not about sex, but about love. The group’s follow-up single, “Wild and Crazy Love,” was even more suggestive in its lyrical content, but the PMRC was not known to have attacked it as openly as it condemned “In My House.”

In 2009, VH1 ranked “In My House” number 52 on its program 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.

In 2018 the song was used in the opening sequence of the pilot episode of the FX series POSE.

SIDE A:
In My House (12″ Version) 5:00

SIDE B:
In My House (Instrumental 12″ Version) 7:16

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1985 In My House U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #7
1985 In My House U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs #1
1985 In My House U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play #3

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Motown ‎– 4529MG, Motown ‎– 67174-D
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Funk/Soul
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Arranged By, Producer, Written-By – Rick James

NOTES:
Album Version In, “ONLY FOUR YOU”

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION BY:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck 
Phono Pre-amp: Schiit Mani
Soundcard: ESI Juli@ XTe Audio Interface
Monitiring: Novation Audiohub 2×4 Audio Interface
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2, ocenaudio
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Username: btg
Password: burningtheground

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Rick James – Give It To Me Baby (Germany 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1981

“Give It to Me Baby” is a song written by American singer Rick James. Taken from his album Street Songs, the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at #40 and spent five weeks at #1 on the R&B chart. Along with two other tracks from Street Songs, “Super Freak” and “Ghetto Life”, topped the American dance chart for three weeks in the summer of 1981. In the U.K. the song went to #47 on the U.K. singles chart.

SIDE A:
Give It To Me Baby (12″ Vocal) 5:42

SIDE B:
Give It To Me Baby (Instrumental) 6:25

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1981 Give It To Me Baby U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #40
1981 Give It To Me Baby U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs #1
1981 Give It To Me Baby U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Motown ‎– ZT41592
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Germany
Released: 1981
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Disco, Funk

CREDITS:
Photography By – Ron Slenzak
Producer, Arranged By, Written-By – Rick James

NOTES:
Remixed from the LP “STREET SONGS”
Printed in W. Germany

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION BY:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck 
Phono Pre-amp: Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube: Tung-Sol 12AX7 TubeGold Pins
Soundcard: Novation Audiohub 2×4 Audio Interface
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2, ocenaudio
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

Rick James – Super Freak (France 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1981

A. Front

DISCO FRIDAY!

“Super Freak” is a 1981 hit single produced and performed by Rick James. The song, co-written by James and Alonzo Miller, was first released on James’ album Street Songs and became one of James’ signature songs. It features background vocals from Motown labelmates The Temptations, in which the bass singer is James’ uncle Melvin Franklin, and Canadian singer Taborah Johnson. “Freak” is a slang term for, as described in the song’s lyrics, “…a very kinky girl / The kind you don’t take home to mother”. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #477 in its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song was a big hit for James in 1981, charting on the pop, R&B and dance charts in the U.S. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #16 in the fall of 1981 and spent 10 weeks in the top 40. Together with two other singles from Street Songs, “Give It to Me Baby” and “Ghetto Life”, it spent three weeks at #1 on the American dance charts earlier that year.

SIDE A:
Super Freak (Vocal) 7:07

SIDE B:
Super Freak (Instrumental 3:34

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1981 Super Freak U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #16
1981 Super Freak U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles #3
1981 Super Freak U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Motown ‎– 310926, Vogue ‎– 310926
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 33 ⅓ RPM, Limited Edition
Country: France
Released: 1981
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Disco

CREDITS:
Photography – X.
Producer, Arranged By – Rick James
Written-By – Alonzo Miller, Rick James

NOTES:
Special versions from the Motown LP: “STREET SONGS”
Made in France by Disques Vogue P.I.P

Find the 12″ On DISCOGS

B. Back

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Speed Control: Pro-Ject Speed Box S
Phono Pre-amp: Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube: Tung-Sol 12AX7ECC803-S Gold Electron Tube
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removeal: ClickRepair (DeClick Level 3)
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi