Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits
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| Greatest hits by Chic | |||||
| Released | December 1979 | ||||
| Recorded | 1977-1979 | ||||
| Genre | Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz / Samba | ||||
| Length | 38:44 | ||||
| Label | Atlantic Records | ||||
| Producer | Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards |
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Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits a.k.a. The Best of Chic is a greatest hits album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1979, including the biggest hits from their first three albums Chic (1977), C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979).
The seven track album, which interestingly omits the 1979 hit single "My Forbidden Lover" and replaces it with "Chic Cheer" and also combines three 7 inch edits and one extended 12 inch mix with three album versions, was the only compilation to be released during the band's six years on the Atlantic label and reached #88 on the US charts and #30 in the UK in early 1980.
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers unless otherwise noted.
Side A:
- "Le Freak" (7" Edit) – 3:30 Listen
- "I Want Your Love" (7" Edit) - 3:28 Listen
- "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (7" Edit) (Edwards, Rodgers, Lehman) - 3:40 Listen
- "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25 Listen
Side B:
- "Chic Cheer" - 4:42
- "Good Times" - 8:13 Listen
- "My Feet Keep Dancing" - 6:46 Listen
[edit] Personnel
- Alfa Anderson - vocals
- Bernard Edwards - vocals, bass guitar
- Fonzi Thornton - vocals
- Luci Martin - vocals
- Michelle Cobbs - vocals
- Ulland McCullough - vocals
- Norma Jean Wright - vocals
- Luther Vandross - vocals
- David Lasley - vocals
- Robin Clark - vocals
- Diva Gray - vocals
- Nile Rodgers - guitar, vocals
- Tony Thompson - drums
- Sammy Figueroa - percussion
- Robert Sabino - keyboards, clavinet, acoustic piano and electric piano
- Andy Schwartz - keyboards, clavinet, acoustic piano and electric piano
- Raymond Jones - keyboards
- Robert Sabino - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Tom Coppola - keyboards
- Jon Faddis - trumpet
- Ellen Seeling - trumpet
- Jon Faddis - trumpet
- Alex Foster - saxophone
- Jean Fineberg - saxophone
- Barry Rodgers - trombone
- Kenny Lehman - woodwinds
- George Young - flute, tenor saxophone
- Vito Rendace - flute, tenor saxophone
- David Friedman - Orchestral Bells, Vibraphones
- Jose Rossy - tubular bells
- Gloria Augustini - harp
- Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Karen Karlsrud (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Valerie Haywood (The Chic strings) - strings
- Gene Orloff - concert master
- Alfred Brown - strings contractor
[edit] Production
- Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Kenny Lehman - co-producer (track A4)
- Jackson Schwartz - engineer
- Jeff Hendrickson - engineer
- Jim Galante - engineer
- Peter Robbins - engineer
- Ray Willard - engineer
- Burt Szerlip - engineer
- Dennis King - mastering
- All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station in New York. Mastered at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.
