Rush Street is the third studio album by singer/songwriter Richard Marx

Richard Marx

Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...

. Released in late 1991, it sold over two-million copies in the United States alone. Its first single, "Keep Coming Back

Keep Coming Back (song)

"Keep Coming Back" is a 1991 song by American singer-songwriter Richard Marx. It appears on his third solo album, Rush Street, and was both written and produced by Marx.The lyrics to the song detail a man's unrequited love for a woman...

," was #1 on the American Adult Contemporary chart for four consecutive weeks and peaked at #12 Pop. The follow-up single, "Hazard

Hazard (song)

"Hazard" is a 1991 song performed by adult contemporary artist Richard Marx. It has since become one of the most popular songs by Richard Marx, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, the song spent one week atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart...

", hit #1 Adult Contemporary and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, while "Take This Heart" and "Chains Around My Heart" were also Top Ten hits on the Billboard US Adult Contemporary  charts. All four hits boasted popular music videos as well.

Track listing

1. "Playing with Fire" (Richard Marx
   Richard Marx
   Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
   
   , Steve Lukather
   Steve Lukather
   Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...
   
   ) - 4:29
2. "Love Unemotional" (Marx) - 5:06
3. "Keep Coming Back
   Keep Coming Back (song)
   "Keep Coming Back" is a 1991 song by American singer-songwriter Richard Marx. It appears on his third solo album, Rush Street, and was both written and produced by Marx.The lyrics to the song detail a man's unrequited love for a woman...
   
   " (Marx) - 6:51
4. "Take This Heart
   Take This Heart
   "Take This Heart" is a song by Richard Marx, the third single from his 1991 album Rush Street. It hit number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100, while reaching number four on the Adult Contemporary chart in the U.S...
   
   " (Marx) - 4:10
5. "Hazard
   Hazard (song)
   "Hazard" is a 1991 song performed by adult contemporary artist Richard Marx. It has since become one of the most popular songs by Richard Marx, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, the song spent one week atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart...
   
   " (Marx) - 5:17
6. "Hands In Your Pocket" (Marx) - 3:54
7. "Calling You" (Marx, Bruce Gaitsch
   Bruce Gaitsch
   Bruce R. Gaitsch is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is best known for working with notable musicians such as Richard Marx, Chicago, Peter Cetera, Madonna, Agnetha Fältskog and many others as a session musician and songwriter...
   
   ) - 4:42
8. "Superstar" (Marx) - 4:42
9. "Streets of Pain" (Marx, Fee Waybill
   Fee Waybill
   John Waldo Waybill , known as Fee Waybill, is the lead singer and songwriter of the band the Tubes...
   
   ) - 5:10
10. "I Get No Sleep" (Marx) - 3:44
11. "Big Boy Now" (Marx, Waybill) - 5:38
12. "Chains Around My Heart" (Marx, Waybill) - 5:42
13. "Your World" (Marx) - 5:54

Bonus Tracks on Japanese release

• "Ride With Idol" - 3:46

Bonus Tracks on Latin America release

• "Regresa A Mi [Keep Coming Back]" - 5:22

Singles/Chart positions

Year	Song	US Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	US A.C.	UK Singles UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	US Hot R&B
1991 1991 in music See also:* 1991 in music Record labels established in 1991-Summary:The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year...	"Keep Coming Back"	12	1	55	71
1992 1992 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....	"Hazard Hazard (song) "Hazard" is a 1991 song performed by adult contemporary artist Richard Marx. It has since become one of the most popular songs by Richard Marx, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, the song spent one week atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart... "	9	1	3	-
	"Take This Heart Take This Heart "Take This Heart" is a song by Richard Marx, the third single from his 1991 album Rush Street. It hit number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100, while reaching number four on the Adult Contemporary chart in the U.S... "	20	4	13	-
	"Chains Around My Heart"	44	9	29	-

Personnel

• Mike Baird - Drums
• Terry Bozzio
  Terry Bozzio
  Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
  
   - Drums
• Kim Bullard - Keyboards
• Bill Champlin
  Bill Champlin
  William Bradford "Bill" Champlin is an American singer, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger, producer, and songwriter. His performance work is principally associated with the bands Chicago and the Sons of Champlin...
  
   - Hammond B3
• John Clarke - Programmer, Drum Machine
• Jim Cliff - Bass Guitars
• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
   - Bass Guitars
• Michael Egizi - Programmer, Keyboards
• Bruce Gaitsch - Writer, Arranger, Acoustic Guitar, Other Guitars
• Steve Grove - Saxophone
• Randy Jackson
  Randy Jackson
  Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson is an American bassist, singer, record producer, music manager, A&R executive, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and executive producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew...
  
   - Bass Guitar
• Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...
  
   - Piano
• Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...
  
   - Guitar on "Keep Coming Back" (AOR Mix)
• Michael Landau
  Michael Landau
  Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...
  
   - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Other Guitars
• Tommy Lee
  Tommy Lee
  Thomas Lee Bass , best known as Tommy Lee, is an American musician and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects...
  
   - Drums
• John "Juke" Logan
  John "Juke" Logan
  John "Juke" Logan is an American electric blues harmonica player, singer, pianist and songwriter. He is best known for his harmonica playing on the theme music for television programs and films...
  
   - Harmonica
• Steve Lukather
  Steve Lukather
  Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...
  
   - Writer, Arranger, Other Guitars
• Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
  
   - Producer, Writer, Arranger, Keyboards, Piano, Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes
• Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
  
   - Bass Guitar
• Jonathan Moffett - Drums
• Greg Phillinganes - Fender Rhodes
• Jeff Porcaro
  Jeff Porcaro
  Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
  
   - Arranger, Drums
• Leland Sklar
  Leland Sklar
  Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...
  
   - Bass Guitar
• Lee Thornburg
  Lee Thornburg
  Lee Thornburg is a trumpeter who has played with many artists, and also has been a member of Supertramp and Tower of Power. Thornburg also played with Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders in the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
   - Trombone, Trumpet
• Chris Trujillo - Percussion
• Paul Warren - Other Guitars
• Fee Waybill
  Fee Waybill
  John Waldo Waybill , known as Fee Waybill, is the lead singer and songwriter of the band the Tubes...
  
   - Producer, Writer

Background Vocals

• Tamara Champlin
• Jim Cliff
• Dalbello
• Mike Egizi
• Janet Gardner
• Steve George
  Steve George (keyboardist)
  Steve George is an American keyboard player, who is perhaps best known as the keyboardist for the 1980s band, Mr. Mister. He co-wrote many of the Mr. Mister songs, together with his childhood friend, Mr...
  
  
• Cheryl Lynn
  Cheryl Lynn
  Lynda Cheryl Smith , known better by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a female African-American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real".-Early career:...
  
  
• Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
  
  
• Ruth Marx
• Cindy Mizelle
• Richard Page
  Richard Page (musician)
  Richard Page , is an American musician who is the lead singer and bassist of 1980's US band Mr. Mister and is now a songwriter and solo artist.-Early life:...
  
  
• Brandy Rosenberg
• Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
  
  
• Paul Warren
• Fee Waybill
  Fee Waybill
  John Waldo Waybill , known as Fee Waybill, is the lead singer and songwriter of the band the Tubes...
  
  
• Matt Westlfield

Engineers

• Brad Aldridge
• Bryant Arnett
• Ray Blair
• Rick Caughron
• Lavant Coppock
• Peter Doell
• Michael Douglass
• Bill Drescher
• Lolly Grodner
• Mark Hagan
• Leslie Ann Jones
• Jesse Kanner
• Pat MacDougall
• Tim Nellen
• Rick Norman
• Charlie Paakkari
• Kevin Reeves
• Mark Stebbeds
• Randy Wine

Guest stars

• Janet Gardner
• Billy Joel
• Tommy Lee
• Steve Lukather
• Luther Vandross
• Fee Waybill

Miscellaneous

• The Japanese version of the album contained a bonus track, "Ride With The Idol"

• Marx admitted in 2001 that the track "Superstar" is about Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
  
  

• Album was dedicated to son Brandon Marx and grandmother Lois