Wild and Peaceful is the debut album by Teena Marie

Teena Marie

Mary Christine Brockert, better known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer, songwriter and producer...

, released in 1979 on Motown

Motown Records

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, and featuring significant contributions from Rick James

Rick James

James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...

. He provided co-vocals on "I'm a Sucker For Your Love". The packaging of the album is renowned for not including an image of Marie. It is suggested that this was in order that R&B buyers would not dismiss Marie on discovering that she was Caucasian

Caucasian race

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.

Wild and Peaceful peaked at #18 on the Black Albums chart and #94 on the Billboard Albums chart

Billboard 200

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. Lead single "I'm a Sucker For Your Love" reached #8 on the US Black Singles chart and #43 in the United Kingdom.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rick James; except where indicated

1. "I'm a Sucker For Your Love" 5:52
2. "Turnin' Me On" 6:06
3. "Don't Look Back" (Smokey Robinson
   Smokey Robinson
   William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
   
   , Ronald White
   Ronald White
   Ronald "Ronnie" White was an African American soul singer and songwriter, notable as a founding member of The Miracles, and the only member to survive all of that group's line-up changes...
   
   ) 7:32
4. "Déjà Vu (I've Been Here Before)" 7:38
5. "I'm Gonna Have My Cake (And Eat it Too)" (Michelle Holland, Teena Marie) 5:30
6. "I Can't Love Anymore" 7:11
7. "You Got the Love" 4:34 (Expanded Edition)
8. "Every Little Bit Hurts" 7:04 (Expanded Edition)

Personnel

• Shondu Akiem - Percussion
• Wally Ali - Guitar
• Oscar Alston - Bass
• Jack Andrews - Mastering
• Chris Boehme - Percussion
• Garnett Brown - Trombone
• Oscar Brashear
  Oscar Brashear
  Oscar Brashear is an American jazz trumpeter and session musician.After studying at DuSable High School he worked briefly with Woody Herman before going on to join Count Basie '68-9, returning to freelance in Chicago with Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon and James Moody...
  
   - Trumpet
• The Colored Girls - Background Vocals, Ensemble
• Ernie Fields, Jr.
  Ernie Fields, Jr.
  Ernie Fields, Jr. is a baritone saxophonist and session musician.Son of notable musician Ernie Fields, he has worked with blues, soul and funk artists including B. B...
  
   - Saxophone
• Lanise Hughes - Drums
• Rick James
  Rick James
  James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...
  
   - Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Arranger, Conga, Drums, Timbales, Vocals, Background Vocals, Timpani, Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements, Syndrum
• Jean King - Background Vocals
• Daniel Le Melle - Flute, Saxophone on "I'm Gonna Have My Cake (And Eat it Too)"
• Teena Marie - Piano, Vocals, Background Vocals
• David Melle - Flute, Saxophone
• Earl Palmer
  Earl Palmer
  Earl Cyril Palmer was an American rock & roll and rhythm and blues drummer, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
  
   - Drums
• Jackie Ruffin - Background Vocals
• Levi Ruffin - Synthesizer
• Lisa Sarna - Background Vocals
• Russell Schmitt - Engineer
• Clarence Sims - Piano, Keyboards on "I'm Gonna Have My Cake (And Eat it Too)"
• Art Stewart - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Julia Tillman Waters - Background Vocals
• Ernie Watts
  Ernie Watts
  Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...
  
  - Saxophone
• Maxine Willard Waters - Background Vocals
• Adrienne Williams - Background Vocals