Street Life (The Crusaders album)

Street Life
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1979
Recorded1979
Studio
  • Hollywood Sound Recorders (Hollywood, California)
GenreJazz, R&B, disco
Length39:21
LabelMCA
Producer
The Crusaders chronology
Images
(1978)
Street Life
(1979)
Rhapsody and Blues
(1980)

Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band the Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band's commercial popularity. The title track, featuring singer Randy Crawford, was a Top 40 pop single (No. 36) and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart (No. 17). It was No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. "Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at No. 75, and was re-recorded by Doc Severinsen with Crawford reprising her vocal for the opening sequence of the noir crime drama Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981. This faster-paced version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997.

The cover photograph was taken at 409 N Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California.