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Straight from the Heart [Patrice Rushen]

Patrice Rushen
1 disc

1. Forget Me Nots
2. I Was Tired of Being Alone
3. All We Need
4. Number One - (TRUE instrumental)
5. Where There Is Love
6. Breakout!
7. If Only
8. Remind Me
9. (She Will) Take You Down to Love
10. Forget Me Nots - (12" version, CD only)
11. Breakout! - (12" version, CD only)
12. Number One - (TRUE instrumental, 12" version, CD only)
13. Forget Me Nots - (single version, CD only)
14. Breakout! - (single version, CD only)
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 73508
Credits

Producer
Engineer Peter Chaikin
Personnel: Patrice Rushen (vocals, electric piano, synthesizer, piano, percussion, Clavinet, guitar); Paul M. Jackson, Jr. (acoustic guitar); Wali Ali, Marlo Henderson (guitar); Gerald "Wonderfunk" Albright (saxophone); Raymond Lee Brown (trumpet, flugelhorn); Clay Lawry (trombone); Charles Mims, Jr. (electric piano, piano, synthesizer); "Ready" Freddie Washington (bass); Melvin Webb, Tony St. James, James Gadson, Ollie Brown (drums); Ulysses Dupree, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Roy Galloway, Jeanette Hawes, Lynn Davis, Karen Evans, Brenda Russell (background vocals).
Producers: Charles Mims, Jr., Patrice Rushen.
Reissue producers: David McLees, Lloyd Hardy.
Recorded at Conway Studios, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Lloyd Hardy.
Personnel: Patrice Rushen (vocals, guitar, piano, electric piano, Clavinet, synthesizer, hand claps, percussion, background vocals); Karen Evans, Jeanette Hawes, Lynn Davis , Roy Galloway, Brenda Russell (vocals); Gerald Albright (saxophone); Ray Brown (trumpet); Clay Lawry (trombone, bass trombone); Charles Mims, Jr. (piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer); James Gadson, Ollie E. Brown, Melvin Webb (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).
Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot.
Audio Remixers: Philip Moores; F. Byron Clark.
Liner Note Author: Lloyd Hardy.
Recording information: Conway Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Photographers: Michael Ochs Archives; Gary Taylor; Phil Fewsmith; Bobby Holland .
Unknown Contributor Role: Patrice Rushen.
Long out-of-print, this sultry'n'sassy landmark recording by one of the pioneer do-it-all women in black popular music has been lovingly re-issued on CD. The package comes complete with copious liner notes, 12-inch dance mixes AND single versions of "Forget Me Nots," the Rushen/Brenda Russell duet "Breakout" and the instrumental smash "Number One."
Classy, jazz-informed disco with solid-rock bottom commingles with impossibly lush ballads as composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Rushen weaves it all together with her exquisite voice. Produced by Rushen with the aid of Charles Mims, Jr. and a bevy of studio aces, STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART gets a slight edge over the simultaneously re-issued BEST OF PATRICE RUSHEN for its organic continuity. A stone classic.