Chic (album)

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Chic
Chic cover
Studio album by Chic
Released November 22 1977
Recorded 1977
Genre Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz / Samba
Length 37:43
Label Atlantic Records
Wounded Bird Records
Producer Nile Rodgers,
Bernard Edwards
Professional reviews
Chic chronology
Chic
(1977)
C'est Chic
(1978)

Chic is the debut album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in 1977. It includes the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - originally released on label Buddha Records - (US Hot 100 #6, R&B #6, US Club Play #1, UK #6) and "Everybody Dance" (US Hot 100 #38, R&B #12, US Club Play #1, UK #9). Chic's debut album reached #27 on the US Pop charts, #12 on the R&B charts and was certified Gold by the RIAA, selling more than half a million copies.
Chic was transferred to compact disc and re-released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1991.
The album was digitally remastered and re-issued by Wounded Bird Records in 2006.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers unless otherwise noted.
Side A:

  1. "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 8:21 Listen 
  2. "Sao Paulo" (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 5:01
  3. "You Can Get By" - 5:36

Side B:

  1. "Everybody Dance" - 6:41 Listen 
  2. "Est-Ce Que C'est Chic?" - 3:53
  3. "Falling in Love with You" - 4:29
  4. "Strike Up the Band" (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 4:32

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

[edit] US Singles

Early formation of the band: Tony Thompson, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers & Norma Jean Wright
Early formation of the band: Tony Thompson, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers & Norma Jean Wright

"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (Buddah Records)

  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (7" Edit) - 3:41 / "Sao Paulo" - 5:01 (Buddah 7" BDA 583, 1977)
  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21 / "Sao Paulo" - 5:01 (Buddah 12" DSC 121, 1977)

"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (Atlantic Records re-issue)

  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (7" Edit) - 3:41 / "Sao Paulo" - 5:01 (Atlantic 7" 3435, September 30 1977)
  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21 / (7" Edit) - 3:41 (Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 101, 1977)
  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21 / "Sao Paulo" - 5:01 (Atlantic 12" DK 4600, 1977)
  • "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21 / " Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25 (Atlantic 12" DK 4621, 1978)

"Everybody Dance"

  • "Everybody Dance" (7" Edit) - 3:30 / "You Can Get By" (7" Edit) - 3:59 (Atlantic 7" 3469, 1978)
  • "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25 / "You Can Get By" - 5:36 (Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 109, 1978)
  • "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25 / "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21 (Atlantic 12" DK 4621, 1978)
  • "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25 / "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - 8:21 (Atlantic Oldies promo 12" DSKO 179, 1979)