LABEL: BBE Music CAT NO: BBE605ALP BARCODE: 195497279005 Tracklisting: LP1 SIDE A1. I Need Your Lovin (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena Marie2. 365 (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena MarieLP1 SIDE B1. Chains (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena Marie2. It Must Be Magic (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena MarieLP2 SIDE C1. Behind The Groove (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena Marie2. Square Biz (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena MarieLP2 SIDE D1. Youre All The Boogie I Need (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena Marie2. Aladdins Lamp (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena MarieLP3 SIDE E1. Portuguese Love (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena Marie2. Now That I Have You (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena MarieLP3 SIDE F1. Fire And Desire (John Morales M+ M Mix) Rick James & Teena Marie2. First Class Love (John Morales M+ M Mix) Teena Marie TEENA MARIE John Morales Presents Teena MarieLove Songs and Funky Beats Remixed With Loving Devotion 3 X 12 Vinyl Producer extraordinaire John Morales returns to BBE Music, celebrating the life and work of R&B / soul legend Teena Marie with a double album full of brand new remixes, lovingly crafted from the original studio tapes, entitled Love Songs & Funky Beats. Teena is somewhat underrated, and people dont really know much about her. Says Morales. I set out to immerse people in her music and represent what she really did. That meant for me a dive into more than her R&B hits, to dig into her ballads and dance cuts. People know she was talented. I dont really think they really knew the depth of her abilities, her complete confidence to take it upon herself to do everything singing, producing, arranging, songwriting. Teena Marie was the total package. John Morales had the pleasure of mixing many of Teena Maries original records over the years, so it felt natural to dig into the archives and select his favourite cuts to rework, extend and subtly update in his own distinctive style. While by no means a definitive collection of Lady Tees expansive musical catalogue, Love Songs & Funky Beats represents a fitting tribute to a multifaceted and important voice in popular music, by one of the most storied mix engineers and remixers of our age. Jumping into the music industry deep end in 1979 with a three-year mentorship from Berry Gordy & Rick James at Motown, Teena Marie then spent seven fertile years with Epic, which yielded her greatest commercial successes (including the classic album Starchild). After founding an independent label Sarai, Marie took a ten-year hiatus which ended in 2004 in a deal with hip hop label Cash Money Records; a less unlikely partnership than some might assume, given that Teena was one of the first mainstream artists to perform a rap verse, on 1981s Square Biz. Teena Marie Brockert forged a unique path through the industry, an artist in-charge of her own destiny, influencing (and heavily sampled by) both the hip hop and R&B sounds of the 90s and early 2000s. Her 1982 lawsuit against Motown records resulted in The Brockert Initiative, which has benefitted literally thousands of other artists by making it illegal for record companies to shelve artists by keeping them under contract without releasing their material. She continued to tour regularly and deliver commercially successful, expertly sculpted music, right up until her untimely passing in 2010.