Best Steve Perry Collaboration?

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OK, I am going to copy these unaired Journey and collaboration pieces from the King Biscuit/Super Jams 2 show in 1978 (thank you Judywoz for posting these on Youtube, with the following intro!):

The unaired King Biscuit/Super Jams 2 episode featuring Journey, with interviews and intros with band members, doing their own tunes (they had only one album out, (with Steve Perry that is), "Infinity" at the time, and also them doing really great cover tunes. Also featuring, really the only times Steve duets with a female singer.

It was recorded in one day in October 1978 at the Automat Studios in San Francisco. Featuring guests: the Tower Of Power Horn Section, Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers and Annie Sampson & Jo Baker of Stoneground.

Journey at this time was: Steve Perry (vocals), Gregg Rolie (keys, vocals), Neal Schon (guitar), Ross Valory (bass) & Aynsley Dunbar (drums).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RsJq2pP ... re=related -- Love Hurts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUhvzqXb040-- Hold On I'm Coming


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJdJ5mv0AA --Crossroads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3D-TcRj7uk --Show Me--SP on background?

link for Hold on I'm Coming above isn't working for some reason.
Try this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUhvzqXb040

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Are all these things really considered collaborations? Don't fight it is the only one I can think of where Perry and the other singer get equal time. David Pack's is the only other one that remotely comes close to that from what I can hear.

Collaboration has nothing to do with equal time. It's simply working together with other artists on the same project.

I thought they were talking about stuff where he contributed a majority portion or at least half of the vocal work. Everyone seemed to be fawning over little oohs and aahs he did on different records, but I can barely tell its him on half of the stuff.

As far as I'm concerned I am interested in anything in which Steve contributed to the work....Sometimes he contributed a stanza or accented the primary singer, but in almost all collaborations, Steve's voice adds a lot imho.

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Found this short description of the way Can't Fall Asleep to a Lullabye originated:

The band liked "(Can't Fall Asleep To A) Lullaby" better. This sultry, midtempo number was a collaboration among Bunnell, Mumy, Haimer, and Journey lead singer Steve Perry. "Steve and I both lived in Marin County, and I think I ran into him at a Home Depot-type store," Bunnell says. "We became friendly and wrote a few things together. I started this song with Steve, and then he came down to L.A. to help finish the song."

The tune was in raw form When Mumy and Haimer became involved. "The tape Dewey played us had no words, just the chords and Dewey and Steve singing sounds," Haimer says. "We went out for sushi, and one of us came up with 'Can't fall asleep...,' then someone else came up with, '...to a lullaby.' The demo that we did of the song that night had chords similar to 'Ventura Highway,' but the studio version became something else that was equally good."

"It was another one of those lonely-on-the-road kind of things," says Bunnell of the song. "Most of the love songs I've written relate to that: You can either revel in being alone or you can feel sorry for yourself. Matt McCauley produced that one, and Dean Parks played bass and guitar." Bunnell sang "(Can't Fall Asleep To A) Lullaby" with a cool, sophisticated air that was a far cry from the days of "Sandman" and "Donkey Jaw." Released as a single, it hit #26 on the Adult Contemporary chart.