Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: MOVLP3771
Barcode: 0600753996089
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Genre: Funk

180 gram audiophile vinyl
Gatefold sleeve

2LP compilation featuring early songs and hits by the Punk-Funk originator, multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer

Includes liner notes

Featuring the hits "Give It To Me Baby", "Super Freak", "You And I", "Dance Wit' Me", "Ebony Eyes" with Smokey Robinson, "Glow" and "Loosey's Rap" featuring Roxanne Shanté

Born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (1948-2004), Rick James transformed from draft dodger to funk legend after being signed to Motown’s Gordy Records in 1978.

His debut album “Come Get It!” delivered the hits “You and I” and “Mary Jane,” but his 1981 masterpiece “Street Songs” really cemented his legacy with “Give It to Me Baby” and “Super Freak” (later sampled in MC Hammer’s Grammy-winning “U Can’t Touch This”). All these hits, including “Glow”, “Loosey’s Rap” (feat. the queen of hip hop Roxanne Shanté),“In The Ghetto” (with Busta Rhymes), “Standing On the Top” (with The Temptations) and the soulful ballad “Ebony Eyes” (feat. Smokey Robinson), can be found on this definitive Rick James compilation:  ‘Collected”.

“Rick James – Collected” is available as a 2LP set on black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive linernotes as well as a 3-CD digipack with 16-page booklet.

Side A
1. You And I
2. Mary Jane
3. High On Your Love Suite
4. Bustin’ Out (On Funk)
5. Love Gun
6. Come Into My Life - Part 1
7. Big Time
Side B
1. Give It To Me Baby
2. Super Freak
3. Ghetto Life
4. Dance Wit Me - Part 1
5. She Blew My Mind (69 Times)
6. Hard To Get
Side C
1. Standing On The Top feat. The Tempations
2. Cold Blooded
3. U Bring The Freak Out
4. Ebony Eyes feat. Smokey Robinson
5. 17
6. You Turn Me On
Side D
1. Glow
2. Can’t Stop
3. Spend The Night With Me
4. Sweet And Sexy Thing
5. Loosey’s Rap feat. Roxanne Shanté
6. In The Ghetto - Busta Rhymes feat. Rick James