The Glamorous Life
Sheila E.
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | The Belle of St. Mark | Sheila E | 5:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Shortberry Strawcake | Sheila E | 4:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Noon Rendezvous | Sheila E | 3:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Oliver's House (LP Version) | Sheila E | 6:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Next Time Wipe the Lipstick Off Your Collar | Sheila E | 3:52 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | The Glamorous Life | Sheila E | 9:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | The Glamorous Life (Club Edit) | Sheila E | 6:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 7 Songs |
Album Review
When Sheila Escovedo started going by Sheila E. and soared to the top of the R&B charts with 1984's "The Glamorous Life," those who didn't know anything about her background assumed that she was just another Vanity or another Apollonia — in other words, a sexploitive Prince disciple who was entertaining but had limited ability as a vocalist. It's true that the singer/drummer/percussionist doesn't have a great voice, but anyone who was hip to her work with Azteca, Pete Escovedo (her father), and George Duke knew that she was an excellent musician. As a drummer/percussionist, Escovedo has major chops — and even though she doesn't have a mind-blowing vocal range, she has no problem getting her points across on her debut solo album, The Glamorous Life. Produced by Prince, this is one of the best albums that came out of the Purple One's Minneapolis funk-rock empire in the 1980s. The hit title song is a classic, and the same goes for the quirky, new wave-ish "Oliver's House," the Latin-tinged "The Belle of St. Mark," and the funky instrumental "Shortberry Strawcake." Although Prince's stamp is all over this LP, Escovedo did most of the writing herself. The Glamorous Life isn't the only excellent album that Escovedo provided in the 1980s, but it's definitely the most essential.
Recent Customer Reviews
A Purple Rain Companion Must
by ModernaireI got this on vinyl way back with Purple Rain and then later Apollonia 6, these two - A6 and Glamorous Life oh wait, and The Time's Ice Cream Castles MUST be listened to and experienced with Purple Rain. The whole spirit, musically, showbiz-like, etc, the style of the time is captured equally on these albums.
On Glam Life, Sheila E. pretty much re-did Prince's vocal tracks. Its ALL Prince on instruments and song writing. Im sure she contributed a bit as she is an incredible musician and eats, breathes, exhales music.
Factoid - if you listen very, very closely, you can hear Prince's vocals in every line on the title song. He's in the mix, completely, you'll hear his voice, faint in the background and hers over it, if you focus on his, its a Prince song!
Anyway, the album is a seriuosly cool work of Funk Rock with some of the more groove danceable insatiable Prince songs ever. He worked the Linn LM-1 drum machine like crazy and all the songs have a sort of spur of the moment and or recorded on the fly feeling that gives each song an excitement.
My favorites are tracks 1 thorugh 7. Ha! I love them all! I love the strange feeling and romantic loving feel of Noon Rendezvous with the drum machine working through echo guitar effects. Just so out of this world.
Shortberry Strawcake was Prince's first real psychedelic song before going 60's Paisley Underground later in the mid-80's. Its a Prince song, with Prince vocals - but its his guitar singing, its the coolest song ever in his work!
Anyway, a fun Funk jam of an album. For those that are intrigued with the 80's, this work was of course done in around the early 80's, but its stands outside what was being done in the mainstream channels of R&B/Soul etc. Its got a great latin color all around it, but its not eighties-eighties, its just Minneapolis Latin Funk...very hard to descibe. In one word - great!
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
by MuoozikI'm officially addicted to Prince's music, but out of the many people he's worked with, this album has to be my favorite. EVERY song jams hard like nobody's business, and can be played over and over again.
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by Martin YbarraFYI- The song Glamorous life is sung by Sheena E. NOT Sheila E. Get it right!
Biography
Born: December, 1959 in San Francisco, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Sheila E.
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| 1 | The Glamorous Life | The Glamorous Life | 9:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | The Glamorous Life (Club Edit) | The Glamorous Life | 6:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | The Belle of St. Mark | The Glamorous Life | 5:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Santa Baby (Vocal) | Latin Jazz Christmas | 4:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Love Bizarre | Tour 2003 (Live) | 4:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
