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Fire It Up (Rick James album)

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Released
  
October 16, 1979

Fire It Up (1979)
  
Garden of Love (1980)

Release date
  
16 October 1979

Genres
  
Funk, Soul music

Length
  
48:18

Artist
  
Rick James

Label
  
Gordy

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Recorded
  
1979 at The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA

Producer
  
Rick James & Levi Ruffin

Similar
  
Rick James albums, Funk albums

Rick james fire it up


Fire It Up is the third album by American musician Rick James, released on October 16, 1979, on the Motown sub-label Gordy Records. This album was certified gold by the RIAA, and between 1978 and 1982 was a period where Rick James established himself as the historical bridge between P-Funk and Prince. Fire It Up was released on CD for the first time in 2010, by Universal Records. This item soon went Out Of Print and has become a much sought after and very rare item for fans of Rick James and funk in general.

Contents

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Rick James.

Side A

  1. "Fire It Up" – 4:00
  2. "Love Gun" – 5:44
  3. "Lovin You Is a Pleasure" – 4:08
  4. "Love in the Night" – 6:22

Side B

  1. "Come into My Life" – 7:10
  2. "Stormy Love" – 2:05
  3. "When Love Is Gone" – 7:32

2010 Bonus Track / 2014 digital remaster bonus track / 2014 Complete Motown Albums bonus track

8. "Love Gun" (Promotional 12-Inch version) – 10:46

Personnel

  • Rick James – acoustic guitar, piano, organ, Harpsichord, timbales, timpani (tympani), electronic drums [syndrums], drums, percussion
    • The Stone City Band
  • Levi Ruffin – synthesizer, synthesizer (strings ensemble), percussion, backing vocals
  • Tom McDermott – electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, guitar (6-string), acoustic guitar
  • Greg Levias – keyboards, Fender Rhodes electric piano
  • Danny LeMelle – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, harpsichord
  • Lanise Hughes – drums
  • Oscar Alston – bass guitar
  • Shondu Akiem – percussion, electronic drums (syndrums)
  • Cliff Ervin – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • John Ervin – trombone
  • Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Pat Henderson, Jackie Ruffin, Lisa Sarna – backing vocals
  • California St. Clair, Cynthia Gable, Cynthia Nettles, Danny LeMelle, Jackie Ruffin, Julia Waters, Keith "Star" Ragin, Lisa Sarna, Maxine Waters, Pat Henderson, Tom McDermott, Winston L. Allen - choir on "Love in the Night"
  • John Cabalka - art direction
  • Ron Slenzak - photography

    • Songs

    1Fire It Up3:59
    2Love Gun5:44
    3Lovin' You Is a Pleasure4:08

    References

    Fire It Up (Rick James album) Wikipedia
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