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Released on Motown, also I Want You Back (The Jacksons), Truly (Lionel Richie) and You Mean More to Me (Lionel Richie)
Engineered by Tom Flye, also (Don’t Worry) If There’s Hell Below We’re All Gonna Go (Curtis Mayfield), Give It to Me Baby and Foolish Heart (Grateful Dead)
Part of Street Songs, also Give It to Me Baby, Fire and Desire and Make Love to Me
Engineered by Bobby Brooks, also Give It to Me Baby, Alive (P.O.D.) and Fire and Desire
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Rick James wrote 89 songs on fono
Tom Flye engineered 85 songs on fono
Bobby Brooks’s most frequent co-engineer is Ernie Vigil (15 songs together)
Rick James’s most frequent co-producer is Art Stewart (15 songs together)
Credits
All 10 credits
- Written by
- Rick James
- Produced by
- Rick James
- Performed by
- Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams and Richard Street
- Engineered by
- Bobby Brooks, Rick Sanchez and Tom Flye
- Part of
- Street Songs
- Released on
- Motown
- Written by
- Rick James
- Produced by
- Rick James
- Performed by
- Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams and Richard Street
- Engineered by
- Bobby Brooks, Rick Sanchez and Tom Flye
- Part of
- Street Songs
- Released on
- Motown
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same engineer: Tom Flye
Same engineer: Bobby Brooks
Same label: Motown
Same engineer: Bobby Brooks
Same engineer: Rick Sanchez
Same label: Motown
Same engineer: Tom Flye
Same engineer: Rick Sanchez
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was performed by Melvin Franklin
Ghetto Life was performed by Melvin Franklin
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was performed by Otis Williams
Ghetto Life was performed by Otis Williams
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was performed by Richard Street
Ghetto Life was performed by Richard Street
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was produced by Rick James
5MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was written by Rick James
6MusicBrainz Ghetto Life is part of the release Street Songs
Ghetto Life is part of the release Street Songs
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz Motown is the label of the song Ghetto Life
Motown is the label of the song Ghetto Life
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
8MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was engineered by Bobby Brooks
Ghetto Life was engineered by Bobby Brooks
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
9MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was engineered by Rick Sanchez
Ghetto Life was engineered by Rick Sanchez
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
10MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was engineered by Tom Flye
11MusicBrainz Ghetto Life was released on 1981-04-07