1993 Street Angel Masters

[mikebise]

BrokenHearted, you are the FIRST person I've EVER heard agree with me about LOVING the Street Angel outtake of "If You Were My Love"!!!!!!!

Yes, all the many earlier versions are cool and wonderful, too.

But the Street Angel version actually seems to fit the wistful words. When Stevie sings, "Now, now, if I were the one who watched over your sleeping, you would never have been frightened... at all... at all..." it just gives me chills, as she looks back at this lost, unrequited love that could never be.

BTW, Stevie gave a HUGE clue as to who "If You Were My Love" is about in the Fall 1981 issue of Bay Area Music, when she talks about being inspired to write the song "last year when we were recording 'Outside the Rain' with the Heartbreakers"... Just speculation, of course!!!

The Street Angel outtake is my favourite song on the album, just beautiful and sad and strong...

FYI: The crappy sound version of "I Call You Missing" is from Rock A Little. The Street Angel version of "I Call You Missing" is not not known to be mass released among fans, but I do know of a stingy woman in San Antonio who has it and dangled it in front of me for years and never shared it, even though she promised and got several things from me first... Oh well...