Teena Marie – Passion Play
Label: | Sarai Records – 40006-2 |
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Format: | CD, Album |
Country: | US |
Released: | |
Genre: | Rock, Funk / Soul |
Style: | Funk, Soul |
Tracklist
| 1 | Warm As Mommas Oven | 5:27 | |
| 2 | Main Squeeze | 5:18 | |
| 3 | Wild Horses | 5:15 | |
| 4 | Smooth Tip | 5:27 | |
| 5 | Hypnotized (Prelude) | 0:42 | |
| 6 | Hypnotized | 4:09 | |
| 7 | Parking Music ... (The Baby Maker) | 6:03 | |
| 8 | Sweet On You | 5:06 | |
| 9 | Slow Grind | 5:08 | |
| 10 | Climb The Walls | 4:37 | |
| 11 | Breakfast In Bed | 5:04 | |
| 12 | Passion Play | 5:46 | |
| 13 | Pretty Man | 4:50 | |
| 14 | The Air I Breathe | 5:35 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Valley Vue Entertainment
- Manufactured By – Nimbus
Credits
- Arranged By [Co-arranged] – Doug Grigsby (tracks: 1 to 3, 7 to 12, 14), James Stewart* (tracks: 4), Lamont "D. J. Bozo" Hawes* (tracks: 1)
- Art Direction, Illustration, Concept By [Front & Back Cover] – Raymond Anthony (4)
- Backing Vocals – Julia Waters, Lisa Frazier, Maxine Waters, Mickey Ellis, Odem Mays*, Val Young, Verline Beard
- Bass – Doug Grigsby
- Co-producer – Doug Grigsby (tracks: 1 to 3, 7 to 12, 14)
- Coordinator [Layout] – Annalisa Mastroianni
- Design [Package] – Susan Randle
- Drums, Percussion – Brian Kilgore, Doug Grigsby
- Effects [Sound] – Dwayne Ricky Wedlaw*
- Engineer – Bobby Brooks, Chris Gately (tracks: 14), David Domanich (tracks: 2), Kimberly James (tracks: 14), Mike Harmon* (tracks: 14), Tony Pizarro (tracks: "Main Squeeze" (Featuring Lenny Kravitz) & "The Smooth Tip")
- Engineer [2nd, Additional] – Al Dickinson, John Razdin, Leffert Lefferts*, Michael Allaire*, Scott Ralston, Steve Sheppard*
- Executive-Producer – Alicia P. Gladden, Larkin Arnold
- Guitar – Dean Parks, Doug Grigsby, Nikki Slikk, Ray Fuller, Teena Marie
- Keyboards – Alex Alessandroni, Doug Grigsby, James Stewart*, Lil' Rick, Teena Marie
- Management – Larkin Arnold
- Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
- Mixed By – Andy Kravitz (tracks: 8, 12), Gil Morales (tracks: 1), Mike Tarsia* (tracks: 2 to 14)
- Photography By [Teena Marie Photograph] – Randy St. Nicholas*
- Producer [Additional] – Gil Morales (tracks: 8, 12)
- Producer, Arranged By – Teena Marie
- Programmed By – Doug Grigsby, Teena Marie
- Saxophone, Flute – Danny LeMelle*, Dave Boroff*
- Soloist, Violin – Tracy Parente
- Strings – Joe Parente, Lou Parente
Notes
"Main Squeeze" (Featuring Lenny Kravitz) & "The Smooth Tip" Engineered by Tony Pizarro at Bed Rock Studio's
Lenny Kravitz appears courtesy of Virgin Records
Yo-Yo appears courtesy of East West Records
"Smooth Tip" contains an interpolation of songs "Do It Baby" by Freddie Perrin & Christine Yarim and "Rock Creek Park" by Johnson, Saunders, Roney, Kilgo
Recorded at Bedrock Studio except Track 6 recorded at Sigma Sound Services and Track 1 recorded at Cliffhanger
Mixed at Sigma Sound Services except Track 6 mixed at Conway Recording Studio and track 1 mixed at The Record Plant. Tracks 8 & 12 mixed at Studio 4
Additional production Track 8 at Conway Recording Studio and Track 12 at Blue Nile
Additional overdubs at Slikk Tracks - Clinton Recording Studio -- Chestnut Sound
Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Lenny Kravitz appears courtesy of Virgin Records
Yo-Yo appears courtesy of East West Records
"Smooth Tip" contains an interpolation of songs "Do It Baby" by Freddie Perrin & Christine Yarim and "Rock Creek Park" by Johnson, Saunders, Roney, Kilgo
Recorded at Bedrock Studio except Track 6 recorded at Sigma Sound Services and Track 1 recorded at Cliffhanger
Mixed at Sigma Sound Services except Track 6 mixed at Conway Recording Studio and track 1 mixed at The Record Plant. Tracks 8 & 12 mixed at Studio 4
Additional production Track 8 at Conway Recording Studio and Track 12 at Blue Nile
Additional overdubs at Slikk Tracks - Clinton Recording Studio -- Chestnut Sound
Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout: 40006
- Barcode (Printed): 7 8887-40006-2 2
- Barcode (Scanned): 788874000622
Other Versions (1)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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New Submission | Passion Play (Cassette, Album) | Sarai Records | 40006-4 | US | 1994 |
Recommendations
Reviews
This is the greatest album she ever did. I wish she was more active in the 1990s because ivory and Passion Play have some of her greatest work. I’m blessed to have most of the tracks on black rain but I’m looking for the rest. If passion play was released with a bigger label and more singles and promo it would be one of her best sellers. Singles should have been hypnotized, climb the walls double a side with breakfast in bed , sweet on you , smooth tip, wild horses. Remixes should have been r&b slow jam and new jack swing types and house mixes with the biggest names at the time like defmix, junior vasquez, Rauhofer, Danny tenaglia… etc. I have a whole campaign in mind for this masterpiece. I hope her estate will at least make this available on Spotify soon. Local files doesn’t do the trick when I want to share these amazing songs!!
I absolutely adore Teena Marie (especially this album) but why does she insist on putting “written, produced and arranged by Teena Marie” in her albums when she usually has co-writers/arrangers/producers?
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