Remarks:
I first knew about Teena Marie through this song. Not one of her hits – it only went to #54 on the American R&B charts in 1981 – but one of my favourites of hers ever since. I also like “Out on a Limb” (1985).
Lyrics:
Hey, baby, how you doin’
Wow, huh, it’s really been a long time
You know
Remember that night
You remember
On a starry winter night in Portugal
Where the ocean kissed the southern shore
There a dream I never thought would come to pass
Came and went like time spent through and hourglass
You made love to me like fire and rain
Ooh, you know you’ve got to be a hurricane
Killing me with kisses, oh, so subtly
You make love forever, baby
You make love forever
I ain’t gonna let you go that easy
You’ve got to say you love me too
I ain’t gonna let you go that easy
I’m gonna give it all to you
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese
Harbor nights, we made love till the morning star
Then you crooned a song to me on your guitar
Was it so familiar calling soft my name (Teena)
Sunlight dancing slowly through loves window panes
And you made love to me like sugar and spice
Hush my broken heart, this must be paradise
Killing me with kisses, oh, so tenderly
You make love forever, baby
You make love forever
I ain’t gonna let you go that easy
You’ve got to say you love me too
I ain’t gonna let you go that easy
I’m gonna give it all to you
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese
Amore Portuguese
Say you love me, baby
Amore Portuguese
Say you love me, baby
Yo quiero a la ser amor
A feeling too hard to ignore
Say amore Portuguese
You’ve got to say you love me
You knew that you felt good to me, oh, baby, oh
From the first kiss to the last I’m trembling
You made love to me like no other man
And if you please I’d like to go back there again
Killing me with kisses, oh, so tenderly
You make love like, wee
You make love forever
I ain’t gonna let you go that easy
You’ve got to say you love me too
I ain’t gonna let you go that easy
I’m gonna give it all to you
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Won’t you say it to me, say it to me, say you love me, baby
Portuguese love
Amore, amore Portuguese
Aye, say you love me (Portuguese love)
Amore, amore Portuguese
Aye, baby, aye, aye Portuguese love
Amore, amore Portuguese
Say, say, baby, aye, aye, hey, hey (Portuguese love)
Portuguese amore, amore Portuguese
Say, say, say aye, say aye, aye, aye, hee
Portuguese love
Portuguese love
Portuguese love
Portuguese love
Portuguese love
Portuguese love
Portuguese love
Love me
Say you love me
Love, love me (I love you)
Portuguese amore
Say you love me, say, say
Say you love me, baby
You know what I’m sayin’, baby
Maybe that will express what I’ve been going through (I love you)
Loved, loved this song, Abagond! This one and “Fire & Desire.” (P.S. Get my email?)
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Oh, I forgot, “Ooo La La La!” 🙂
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This is one of my JAMS! My mom used to play the heck out of this album! Ahh memories.
“Won’t you say you love me, say you love me BAY-BAY!” 🙂 Excellent pick, Abagond.
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Aha! Another one I know from the O H. Steamy nights lol
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Ah, Lady T.
Could I LOVE this song more?
I played this only 2 or 3 weeks ago, along with a track or 2 from Rick James.
Miss the music from both of them.
This song, for me, has a certain appeal: slick, pulsating, a sound just on the edge of pre-orgasmic hysteria. In the long version, I wait for the moment Rick comes in (at around 05.33), in the thick of everything, speaking in his low voice …fabulous.
What a collaboration, like Teddy Pendergrass and Stephanie Mills, but more, more.
Lady T was an under-rated and passionate musician. She died too young, just a few years ago. Rick died some years before her.
I liked their collaborations, whether upbeat (“Sucker for your love”), or slower, “Fire and Desire”, for instance.
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This was the bomb.
R.I.P. Lady T.
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Man of taste 🙂
Comment in moderation.
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Unsung (Teena)
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{Bulanik mumbles…never any Gracie…cos she ain’t one of Abagond’s girly-girly darlings…}
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RIP Teena Marie. My favorite song by Teena Marie is Show Biz but I do like Portugese Love as well as that duet she did with Rick James, Fire and Desire.
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A-w-w-w, damn, King! Thanks so much for that “Unsung!”
{Danced and cried all the way through it. My puppies lookin’ at me like, “Damn! Didn’t know she could still move like that! :-)}
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This was released when I was 13 but I didn’t discover this until my adult years. This song, Out on a Limb and Ooh La La are my top Lady T jams!
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I love this one. This is one of my favorite Lady T songs. I also love 365 another one of her many songs and Cassanova Brown. I really miss her voice.
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I forgot another Lady T song, “Out on a limb”
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My favorite song by Teena Marie is Show Biz
I knew she did a song called Square Biz, and heard of the others that others have mentioned. From my own knowledge of her I like Behind the Groove
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When Tina Marie’s “Out on a Limb ” album first came out there was no picture of the artist. Everyone assumed she was a black woman, to everyone’s surprise that a white woman could be so soulful. It’s like black America, gave her an honorary pass to be in our culture. I am cool with that, because she is one of my many favorite music artist. RIP Lady T. You are missed.
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TYPO: The first Teena Marie album was “Wild and Peaceful. There was no photograph on the album. Sorry about the first comments my mind is racing, I meant “Wild and Peaceful” I keep hearing “Out on a Limb” I love that song. It shows her force of nature vocals. Next to Chaka Khan and Phyllis Hyman these women are powerful.
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I used to listen to this over and over again in my teens. Great selection Gond… Julian Abagond.
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NOW, TO ALL THE “BLUE EYE’D SOUL SINGERS OUT THERE!”
Please take your cues from artists like the late Miss Marie, and Bobby Caldwell (“My flame,” “What you won’t do for love”). These are artists from the White community, who respected Black music, and in turn, they’re fully embraced.
1. They didn’t use Black women’s bodies as props, (like Miley).
2. They didn’t bring Janet’s t¡tty out to play, and then leave her hanging, for her entire music career to go up in smoke, over the accusation that it was pre-planned. (Justin).
3. They didn’t try to sue Marvin Gaye’s family over the right copy his song without permission and financial compensation. (Thicke.)
4. And they didn’t have a racist song about 50% of the Black community; the very culture of said community, you’re appropriating; hidden away in their vault. (Eminem.)
PLEASE, TAKE NOTE!
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I absolutely love this song! Listening to her voice in headphones gives me chills. So much wonderful, soul stirring treasures out there left behind by some of the greatest to ever do it, gone much too soon. R.I.P. miss Teena Marie, Rick James and many others who we lost too soon, but not forgotten.
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@Ebonymonroe: I agree!
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