Street Life (The Crusaders album)

Street Life
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 9, 1979
Recorded1979
StudioHollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
GenreJazz, R&B, disco
Length39:21
LabelMCA
ProducerWilton Felder, Stix Hooper, Joe Sample
The Crusaders chronology
Images
(1978)
Street Life
(1979)
Rhapsody and Blues
(1980)

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, featuring singer Randy Crawford, was a Top 40 pop single (No. 36) and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart (No. 17).[1] It was No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. "Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at No. 75,[2] and was re-recorded by Doc Severinsen with Crawford reprising her vocal for the opening sequence of the noir crime drama Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981. This faster paced version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997.

The cover photograph was taken at 409 N Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California.[3]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 140.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 66.
  3. ^ "Musical Maps". Musicalmaps.com.au. Retrieved 4 August 2018.