Early original handwritten song lyrics by Rick James for the song ?Make Love to Me,? the third track on his fifth studio album, Street Songs, which was released in 1981 on Gordy Records. The lyrics, entitled ?(Make love to me)? and signed along the upper margin, ?W + M, Rick James,? are handwritten in pencil on an off-white 8.5 x 11 sheet of notebook paper. The lyrics read, in part (spelling retained): ?Taste so good to very last drop / You on bottom and me on top /
Rolling around to a saxaphone sound / Feel so good don't wanna come down / Make [love] to me baby / Do it nice and slow / Make love to me woman / Let your feelings show hey baby?
?Feel so good soaking wet like a rain / So soft and gentle and we show no shame / Kissing you places baby?Feels so good just let your love flow / Make love to me / Do it nice and slow / Make love to me, woman / Let your feelings show / Feeling hot feeling cold / Feeling young & feeling old / That's what I feel when I'm holding you tighter / Squeezing you baby / loving you with all my might / All I'm asking is just to make love to you.? In fine condition.
Accompanied by a letter of provenance from Lisa Sarna, an original member of Rick James and the Stone City Band during the late 1970s and early 1980s, who states: ?During our studio sessions, Rick would often ask me to rewrite lyrics so that Motown executives could understand his handwriting. I kept these handwritten versions as reference materials in case the label had questions about the songs.?
From the personal collection of Lisa Sarna, an original member of Rick James and the Stone City Band, who worked as one of James' backup singers, a group coined ?The Colored Girls.? Sarna?s distinct voice can be heard on several notable tracks and albums, in particular as the ?Say What? girl on the track, ?Give It to Me Baby.? Her contributions extend to albums such as Street Songs, Fire It Up, Urban Rhapsody, Throwin? Down, In & Out, Garden of Love, Bustin? Out, Temptations Reunion, Teena Marie?s Wild & Peaceful, and Laura Branigan.
