TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Teena Marie

TITLE: It Must Be Magic (Remastered)

LABEL: Motown Records / Chronicals

RIPPER: Team RNS

1hr 06min total- 95.8mb

RELEASE DATE: 2002-00-00

RIP DATE: 2003-02-14

01 It Must Be Magic               6:09

05 Opus 111 (Does Anybody Care)   1:34

07 The Ballad of Cradle Rob and Me3:41

10 Square Biz (instrumental)      6:43

11 Some Day We'll All Be Free     1:57

12 DΘjα Vu (I've Been Here       12:25

Here is a fresh Remastering of Teena's

last and biggest selling album while at

Motown Records from none us than the

infamous "Really Nice Suppliers" you know

For those who may not know, very few

white artists have been able to sing R&B

more convincingly than Teena Marie. Alot

of black folks (including myself as a

kid) even thought she was just very

light skin african-american. Motown

went as far as removing her pics from

album covers and press when she debuted

to try to hide this fact. A former Rick

James protgeee, this album was one of

the first in which she took lead

control of the writing and production.

It shows she is a true R&B musican who

didnt need the slick over production

from a superstar to create first rate

classic hits (how many female singers

today can say the same!).

The album is themed in the variety's of

music Teena listened to growing up. It

takes you on a trip from the funky

Marvelette's insprised title track to

tributes to the then recently late John

Lennon ("Revolution") and the soul of

At the least you may be familar with two

tracks on the album already: namely the

80s hit "Square Biz". This song was

sampled by The Firm (Nas, AZ & Foxy

Brown callbo project) in 1997 on the

track "Firm Biz" with Dawn Robinson

(newly solo from En Vouge) on the hook.

This song is also signficant because its

one of the first R&B tracks to include

a rap. Teena said she was inspried by

Blondie's rap in "Rapture" when recording

The other is one of my all time

favorites "Portuguese Love" (which

features a little of Rick James at the

end) is a Quiet Storm classic which can

bring down the house anyday. Teena was

inprised on this song by early works of

Santana and El Chicano.

What is special to this reissue is that

it contains the 12" single version of

"Square Biz" (its fade-out is 17

seconds longer). Also adding the

instrumental version that originally

appeared on the B-side of that single. It

concludes with a 14-minute excerpt from

Teena's July 30, 1981, concert in Long

Beach, CA, on a tour promoting the

album, during which she performed a brief

rendition of Donny Hathaway's "Someday

We'll All Be Free" and an extended

rendition of her own "Dj Vu (I've Been

Definately worth leeching for your

collecting if ya into old school R&B

and/or samples. Agian Im very happy to

release this as some rippers out there

wouldnt have cared to release this with

one good word to say about this project.