''Getting It in the Street'' is the third and final release by

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on RCA Records. This would also be the last album David released in the United States until 1990 (with the release of ''

'') and his last all new album until 1985 (with the release of ''

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''). ''Gettin' It in the Street'' was released in Germany and Japan in November 1976, but did not reach the album charts. The few copies that were pressed for the U.S. were released in July 1979. Rocker

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played lead guitar on the title track which was released as a single. It reached number 105 in the Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart and climbed to number seven in the weekly Top 20 compiled by readers of the German teen magazine ''

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''. The album was not an ''official'' release by the record company and is very hard to find. RCA pressed copies for the U.S. market in 1976 but the album was never released. In 1979, the U.S. copies began appearing in "cut-out" bins as a remaindered or deleted item. Some tracks from this album are compiled on the 1996 collection, '' When I'm a Rock 'n' Roll Star''. The track "Cruise To Harlem" was co-written by former (founding)

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member,

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, and

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Track listing

# "Gettin' It in the Street" (David Cassidy,

) # "I'll Have To Go Away (Saying Goodbye)" (Renee Armand, Kerry Chanter) # "I Never Saw You Coming" (David Cassidy, Jay Gruska) # "Rosa's Cantina" (David Cassidy, Bryan Garofalo) # "Junked Heart Blues" (David Cassidy) # "Cruise To Harlem" (David Cassidy, Gerry Beckley,

) # "The Story of Rock and Roll" (

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) # "Living a Lie" (David Cassidy, Gerry Beckley) # "Love, Love The Lady" (David Cassidy, Gerry Beckley)

References

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