BEAT STREET (Soundtrack)
Beat Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Volume 1 and Beat Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Volume 2 are soundtrack albums for the 1984 drama film of the same name. They were released in 1984 by Atlantic Records. Both albums were produced by Harry Belafonte, a calypso artist best known for his 1956 hit “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)”; and prolific freestyle music producer and remixer Arthur Baker, who collaborated with music artists including Freeez, Afrika Bambaataa, and New Order. Both albums even entered the Billboard 200 and R&B Albums charts and stayed there in the same year. (More from Wikipedia)
Oddly though, “Beat Street” does not appear on the Beat Street soundtrack albums – issued in two volumes – although “Beat Street Breakdown” by Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five does (along with several other songs having “beat street” in the title). “Beat Street” is included in the Rhino Records retrospective from 1994, Message from Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five.
(September 2016)
