Throwin' Down is a 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...

 album from 1982. It was released on the Gordy Records imprint of Motown Records. Although not as popular as Street Songs, "Throwin' Down" saw a collaboration with The Temptations

The Temptations

The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...

 and another RIAA certified Gold album from Rick James. The record won album of the year in the Rhythm & Blues Category.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rick James, except where noted.

1. "Dance Wit' Me" 7:16
2. "Money Talks" 4:50
3. "Teardrops" 4:49
4. "Throwdown" 3:17
5. "Standing on the Top" (with The Temptations
   The Temptations
   The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
   
   ) 3:51
6. "Hard to Get" 4:07
7. "Happy" 5:29
8. "69 Times" 4:11
9. "My Love" 2:53 (James, Le Roi Johnson)

Personnel

• Rick James: Vocal, Guitars & Bass, Harmonica, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Linn Drum Programming, Percussion
• Daniel LeMelle: Flute, Sax, Trumpet, String Synthesizers, Vocal Backing
• Levi Ruffin, Jr.: Electric & Acoustic Piano, Synthesizers, Vocal Backing
• John McFee, Tom McDermott: Guitars
• Erskine Williams: Piano
• Oscar Alston: Bass, Vocal Backing
• Lanise Hughes, Narada Michael Walden
  Narada Michael Walden
  Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
  
  , Paul Hines: Drums, Percussion
• Nate Hughes: Percussion, Handclaps, Vocal Backing
• Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...
  
  , Donny Keider: Vibraphone
  Vibraphone
  The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
  
  
• Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...
  
  , Jean Carn, Julia Tillman Waters, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Maxine Willard Waters, Patti Brooks, Tabby Johnson, Diane Nixon, Jeri Fields: Vocal Backing
• Moses Johnson, JoAnne McDuffy, Lisa Sarna: Handclaps & Vocal Backing
• Aaron Dublin, Big John Main, "Jennifer", Ronald Byrd: Handclaps