Straight from the Heart (Patrice Rushen album)

Straight from the Heart
Studio album by Patrice Rushen
Released April 14, 1982
Genre
Length 39:54
Label Elektra
Producer
Patrice Rushen chronology
Posh
(1980)
Straight from the Heart
(1982)
Now
(1984)
Singles from Straight from the Heart
  1. "Forget Me Nots"
    Released: April 2, 1982
  2. "Breakout!"
    Released: 1982
  3. "I Was Tired of Being Alone"
    Released: 1982

Straight from the Heart is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Patrice Rushen, released on April 14, 1982, by Elektra Records.[1] It features her most recognizable song, "Forget Me Nots", the oft-sampled "Remind Me" and the popular instrumental workout "Number One".

The album is Rushen's most successful album to date, reaching #14 on the album charts. The success of "Forget Me Nots" is perhaps considered the major contributor to the album's popularity at the time of its release.[2]

Critical reception

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave Straight from the Heart a "C+" and said that he prefers side one's "dancy vamp" over the songwriting on side two by Rushen, whom he called a fashionable "ingenue".[3] In a retrospective review, Allmusic's Andy Kellman gave it four out of five stars and called it "an early-'80s jazz-pop-R&B synthesis as durable and pleasing as any other".[4]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Forget Me Nots"  Patrice Rushen, Teri McFadden, Freddie Washington4:45
2."I Was Tired of Being Alone"  Angela Ehgiator, Rushen, Washington, Charles Mims Jr.3:52
3."All We Need"  Roy Galloway, Rushen5:54
4."Number One" (Instrumental)Rushen4:59
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Where There Is Love"  Lynn Davis, Rushen, Washington3:11
6."Breakout!"  Rushen, Brenda Russell4:07
7."If Only"  Mims Jr., Rushen, Syreeta Wright3:23
8."Remind Me"  Karen Evans, Rushen5:18
9."(She Will) Take You Down to Love"  Fay Hauser, Rushen4:24

Personnel

Musicians

Production

References

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