Good to Go Lover

Good to Go Lover
Studio album by Gwen Guthrie
Released	1986
Genre	Garage house Boogie Dance-pop Contemporary R&B
Label	Polydor (829 532-1 Y-1)
Producer	Gwen Guthrie, David "Pic" Conley (associate), Jerome Gasper (executive)
Gwen Guthrie chronology
Just for You' (1985) Good to Go Lover (1986) Ticket To Ride (1987)

Good to Go Lover is a 1986 studio album by Gwen Guthrie and produced by Guthrie. Musicians performing on this album include Larry Levan, two Surface members and Bernie Worrell, a Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist. The album spanned one big hit "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent", reaching number 1 on both the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts and number 42 on the pop chart.^[1][2] This mid-tempo garage house number was mixed by Levan.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Performance 3 Chart performance 3.1 The album 3.2 Singles 4 References

Track listing

Side A

1. "(They Long To Be) Close To You" (B. Bacharach, H. David) – 5:31
2. "Outside in the Rain" (D. Conley, B. Jackson, D. Townsend, J. Thompson) – 5:18
3. "Good to Go Lover" (G. Guthrie, B. Hagans) - 6:05
4. "You Touched My Life" (G. Guthrie) – 5:08

Side B

1. "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" (G. Guthrie) – 5:59
2. "I Still Want You" (D. Conley, B. Jackson, D. Townsend) – 4:38
3. "Stop Holding Back" (D. Conley, B. Jackson, D. Townsend) – 5:58
4. "Passion Eyes" (C.W. Rogers) – 5:11

Personnel

• Dave Conley, Gregg Mann, Harvey Goldberg, Larry Levan, Matthew "Krash" Kasha – mixing
• Gregg Mann – engineer
• Steve Khan – engineer
• Scott James – engineer
• Julian Robertson – engineer
• Tom Zepp – engineer
• Kendal Stubbs – engineer
• Bill Wylie – photography
• Jack Skinner – mastering
• Dave Conley – associate producer
• Ernestine Bell – production assistant
• Jerome Gasper – mixing, executive producer
• Gwen Guthrie – producer, mixing

Performance

• Michael Clark – keyboards
• David Conley – drum programming, keyboards, Moog Bass, synthesizer
• Sly Dunbar – drum programming
• Steve Ferrone – drums
• Gwen Guthrie – vocal arrangement, background vocals, vocals
• Bill Hagans – drum programming, keyboards
• Gary Henry – keyboards
• Brian Morgan – performer
• Onaje Allan Gumbs – performer
• Ira Siegel – guitar
• David Townsend – keyboards
• Bernie Worrell – keyboards

Chart performance

The album

Charts (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard R&B[1]	#20
U.S. Billboard 200[1]	#158
UK Albums Chart[3]	#42

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions[1]
		U.S. Hot 100	U.S. R&B	U.S. Club Play	U.S. Dance Sales	UK
1986	"Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent"	#42	#1	#1	#3	—
1986	"Outside the Rain"	—	#51	—	—	—
1987	"(They Long To Be) Close To You"	—	#69	—	—	—

References