Backstreet (album)

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Backstreet
DavidSanbornBackstreet.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 14,1983
RecordedFebruary-May 1983
StudioMinot Sound (White Plains, New York).
Genre Smooth Jazz
Length44:27
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Marcus Miller, Ray Bardani, Michael Colina
David Sanborn chronology
As We Speak
(1982)
Backstreet
(1983)
Straight to the Heart
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Backstreet is a 1983 album by David Sanborn. The album peaked at number one on the Billboard Traditional Jazz albums chart on January 27, 1984. [3]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Told U So"
5:02
2."When You Smile at Me"Sanborn5:46
3."Believer" Marcus Miller 6:34
4."Backstreet"Sanborn5:27
5."A Tear for Crystal"
  • Sanborn, Miller
7:02
6."Bum's Cathedral"4:40
7."Blue Beach"
  • Sanborn, Miller
4:50
8."Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" Jim Weatherly 5:06
Total length:44:27

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1984)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [4] 81
US Traditional Jazz (Billboard) [3] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [5] 21

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  2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 617.
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