Richard Allen Street (October 5, 1942 – February 27, 2013) was an American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1971 to 1993.

[1] Street was the lead singer of an early Temptations predecessor, Otis Williams & the Distants, and takes the spotlight on their local hit "Come On".

The Distants also included future Temptations Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin (who referred to Street as his cousin), and Elbridge "Al" Bryant, who left The Distants and their record deal with Johnnie Mae Matthews' Northern Records to form The Elgins (later The Temptations) with Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams.

He and old Distants bandmates Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin endured a number of lineup changes over the two decades Street was a Temptation, during which time Dennis Edwards, Ricky Owens, Damon Harris, Glenn Leonard, Louis Price, Ron Tyson, and Ali-Ollie Woodson all served as members of the group at various times.

We did not know we would make such a stir.”[1] In 1998, NBC aired The Temptations, a four-hour television miniseries based upon an autobiographical book by Otis Williams.

[3] Street was also a regular guest host with Tim Marshall and Larry Cotton on R&B Showcase Radio Show airing on WBZC FM in South Jersey.

Entertainers including Ms. Marilyn Marshall and MTV's "Making The Band" finalists LMNT paid tribute to Richard Street.

Richard Street died on February 27, 2013, at the St. Rose Dominican Hospital[5] in Las Vegas, Nevada[8] of a pulmonary embolism.

[9] His widow, Cynthia Street, has said that “He was really fighting for his life.”[5] A public viewing was held in the evening March 15 at the church at Forest Lawn in Cypress California.