Released in 1983 on the SOLAR Records label, which was distributed by Elektra/Asylum Records. It was produced by Midnight Star member Reggie Calloway. This album included The Deele's first big hit, "Body Talk," which reached #3 on the R&B chart.
On the basis of the Deele's debut Street Beat, it would have been hard to predict that Babyface and L.A. Reid
would change the course of urban R&B during the late '80s and '90s.
Though the record -- especially the Top 10 R&B hit "Body Talk" and
its two followups, "Just My Luck" and "Surrender" -- is pleasant,
synthesized soul and lite funk, it doesn't show many signs of
innovation, and only the hit single demonstrate much songcraft. In other
words, it's a good, but not extraordinary debut, by two artists who
would prove themselves exceptional.
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