STEVE PERRY - OH! SHERRIE

OH! SHERRIE

STEVE PERRY

SONGWRITERS: Craig Krampf; Bill Cuomo; Randy Goodrum & Stephen Ray Perry

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STREET TALK

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1984

 

    Stephen Ray Perry(born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for being the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. Perry also had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, made sporadic appearances in the 2000s, and returned to music full-time in 2018.

      Perry's singing voice has garnered acclaim from prominent musical peers and publications; he has been dubbed "The Voice", a moniker originally coined by Jon Bon Jovi. Ranked Nº 76 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", Perry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, 2017.

   Street Talk is Steve Perry's first solo studio album, released in April 1984.

      Street Talk contains Perry's biggest hit as a solo artist, "Oh Sherrie", written for his then-girlfriend Sherrie Swafford. The song hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on Billboard's Rock chart, and the accompanying music video (also featuring Swafford) was a hit on MTV. Other singles included "Foolish Heart" (peaked at #18), "She's Mine" (peaked at #21), and "Strung Out" (peaked at #40).

   There were a number of nods to Perry's pre-Journey band Alien Project on this album—in fact, that band was originally going to be called Street Talk. In the liner notes, Perry dedicates the album to Richard Michaels (the bassist for Alien Project). Also, drummer Craig Krampf was a member of Alien Project later in the 1970s.

      In addition to launching Perry's solo career, the cover photo for Street Talk served as a career launchpad for music photographer John Scarpati, who met Perry during the album's recording sessions at a studio in Sherman Oaks.

        Street Talk is certified as 2× Platinum (2,000,000) in sales by the RIAA

You should've been gone

Knowing how I made you feel

And I should've been gone

After all your words of steel

Oh, I must've been a dreamer

And I must've been someone else

And we should've been over

 

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

 

Oh, I want to let go

You'll go on hurtin' me

You'd be better off alone

If I'm not who you thought I'd be

 

But you know that there's a fever

Oh, that you'll never find nowhere else

Can't you feel it burnin'

On-and-on

 

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

 

Oh, Sherrie

Oh, Sherrie

 

But I should've been gone

Long ago, far away

And you should've been gone

Now I know you'd lie

You'll stay

 

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

 

Oh, Sherrie, our love

Holds on, holds on

 

Hold on

Oh, Sherrie.