Remarks:
Here we find out that Rick James can sing what my mother would call “a real song” or, as the Wikipedia puts it, a song that “uses a more contemporary tempo and follows a more classic style of R&B”. It went to #22 on the American R&B charts in 1983.
Lyrics:
Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…
Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…
Wind in your hair, sun on your skin
Youre looking good, girl, all over again
Hey there, Miss Brown
I want you to know I love you
Brown as the sand, youre soft as the shore
Youre leaving me hungry, Im crying for more
Ooh, we, baby, girl, youre such a score
And I want you to know that, you know what, girl
I love you
I bet you didnt know that, girl
You didnt know that
I need you
Right now, baby, right now, baby
And I bet you didnt know that ebony eyes
Ooh…ooh…hoo…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…
Ooh…hoo…hoo…ooh…hoo…ooh…ooh…
Lips soft and tender, ready to speak
Her voice says, I love you {I love you} and its making me weak
Hey there, little girl, may I just say I love you
Tell em how you feel, Rick
Love is the brown skin girl in my eyes
Think its time that I told you, dont you realize
Youre such a queen, woman, youre such a prize
And I want you to know that, you know what, girl
I love you
And I bet you didnt know that, girl
You didnt know that
I need you
Right now, baby, right now, baby
And I bet you didnt know that ebony eyes
I love you ebony eyes, oh, my
I need you, woman
I need you (Ooh…)
Oh, and I bet you didnt know that ebony eyes
I really love you (Ooh…ooh…), woman, I love you (Love you)
Ebony eyes (Ooh…), oh, my
I wanna say that I need you (Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…), honey, I need you
And I bet you didnt know that ebony eyes
Ebony eyes (Woo…woo…ooh…woo…hoo…)
Ebony eyes, oh, my (Hoo…)
Ebony eyes (Hoo…hoo…hoo…)
Girl, and I bet you didnt know that ebony eyes
Love you (Love you, love you)
Ebony eyes
Abagond 
I love this song, probably because my Dad sang it to me when I was little all the time.
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Like a lot of Rick James but re-discovered a classic recently – a track called ‘Dreamaker’. Beautiful. If you havent heard it or havent listened to it for a while, you tube it – you wont be disappointed.
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