Take It Off (album)

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Take It Off
Studio album by Chic
Released	November 16 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz / Samba
Length	45:06
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Chic chronology
Real People (1980) Take It Off (1981) Soup For One (1982)

Take It Off is the fifth studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1981. The album includes the single "Stage Fright" which did reach #35 on the US R&B chart, it was however the first Chic single failing to enter the US Pop charts, and the Take It Off album only proved to be moderately successful as well, stalling at #124 on the US albums chart and #36 on the R&B chart.
Take It Off was one of three albums to be written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in 1981, the other two being Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry's debut solo album Koo Koo and Johnny Mathis' I Love My Lady - which remains unreleased.
Take It Off 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 1 Tracklisting 2 Personnel 2.1 Production 3 US Singles

[edit] Tracklisting

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

1. "Stage Fright" - 3:55 Listen (help·info)
2. "Burn Hard" - 5:12
3. "So Fine" - 4:10
4. "Flash Back" - 4:28
5. "Telling Lies" - 2:28

Side B:

1. "Your Love Is Cancelled" - 4:12
2. "Would You Be My Baby" - 3:34
3. "Take It Off" - 5:12
4. "Just Out Of Reach" - 3:45 Listen (help·info)
5. "Baby Doll" - 3:10

[edit] Personnel

• Alfa Anderson - vocals
• Bernard Edwards - vocals
• Fonzi Thornton - vocals
• Jocelyn Brown - vocals
• Luci Martin - vocals
• Michelle Cobbs - vocals
• Bernard Edwards - vocals, bass guitar
• Nile Rodgers - vocals, guitar
• Tony Thompson - drums
• Raymond Jones - keyboards
• Rob Sabino - keyboards
• Sammy Figuerora - percussion
• Manolo Badrena - percussion
• Roger Squitero - percussion
• Lenny Pickett - saxophone
• Michael Brecker - saxophone
• Ronnie Cuber - saxophone
• Vinny Della Rocca - saxophone
• Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Ray Maldonado - trumpet, flugelhorn

[edit] Production

• Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
• Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
• Bill Scheniman - sound engineer
• Jason Corsaro - sound engineer
• Dennis King - mastering
• Recorded and mixed at Power Station NYC.
• Mastered at Atlantic Studios NYC.

[edit] US Singles

"Stage Fright"

• "Stage Fright" (7" Edit) - 3:39 /"So Fine" - 4:10 (Atlantic 7" 3887, 1981)
  
• "Stage Fright" 3:55 / "So Fine" - 4:10 (Atlantic promo 12" DMD 306, 1981)
  

v • d • e Chic Main albums Chic (1977) · C'est Chic (1978) · Risqué (1979) · Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979) · Real People (1980) · Take It Off (1981) · Soup For One (soundtrack) (1982) · Tongue in Chic (1982) · Believer (1983) · Chic-Ism (1992) · Chic Freak and More Treats (1996) · Live at the Budokan (1999) · A Night in Amsterdam (2006) Produced by Chic Norma Jean Wright: Norma Jean (1978) · Sister Sledge: We Are Family (1979) · Sheila and B. Devotion: King of the World (1980) · Sister Sledge: Love Somebody Today (1980) · Diana Ross: diana (1980) · Deborah Harry: Koo Koo (1981) Main compilations Freak Out: The Greatest Hits of Chic and Sister Sledge (1988) · Megachic: Best of Chic (1990) · Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic (1991) · The Best of Chic, Volume 2 (1992) · Everybody Dance (1995) · Dance, Dance, Dance & Other Hits (1997) · The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge (1999) · The Very Best of Chic (2000) · Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes (Chic & Sister Sledge) (2005) · The Definitive Groove Collection (2006)