Risqué (album)

Risqué
Studio album by Chic
Released	July 30, 1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Disco, funk, R&B, jazz, samba
Length	36:46
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
Chic chronology
C'est Chic (1978) Risqué (1979) Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979)
Singles from Risqué
"Good Times" Released: 1979 "My Forbidden Lover" Released: 1979 "My Feet Keep Dancing" Released: 1979

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(A-) [2]
Smash Hits	8½/10[3]

Risqué is the third studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in 1979, the same year that Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers wrote and produced Sister Sledge's massively successful We Are Family.

Risqué includes three classic Chic hits; "Good Times" (#1 Pop, #1 R&B June 23, 1979, #5 UK), "My Forbidden Lover" (#33 R&B, #43 Pop October 13, 1979, #15 UK) and "My Feet Keep Dancing" (#42 R&B, #101 Pop December 8, 1979, #21 UK). Risqué reached #5 on the US albums chart and #2 on R&B and was followed by the release of the band's first greatest hits compilation Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits in late 1979.

"Good Times" has been extensively sampled in other artists' works. "Will You Cry" was sampled in "Just a Moment" by Nas from the album Street's Disciple

Risqué was transferred to compact disc and re-released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1991 (catalogue number 7567-80406-2). The album was digitally remastered and re-issued by Warner Music Japan in 2011.

Track listing

All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers

Side A

1. "Good Times" – 8:08  Listen (help·info)
2. "A Warm Summer Night" – 6:10
3. "My Feet Keep Dancing" – 6:38  Listen (help·info)

Side B

1. "My Forbidden Lover" – 4:39  Listen (help·info)
2. "Can't Stand to Love You" – 2:56
3. "Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" – 4:06
4. "What About Me?" – 4:09

Personnel

• Alfa Anderson - Lead vocals
• Luci Martin - Lead vocals
• Bernard Edwards - vocals, bass guitar
• Nile Rodgers - guitar, vocals
• Tony Thompson - drums
• Fonzi Thornton - vocals
• Michelle Cobbs - vocals
• Ulland McCullough - vocals
• Robert Sabino - keyboards
• Andy Schwartz - keyboards
• Raymond Jones - keyboards
• Sammy Figueroa - percussion
• Gene Orloff - concert master
• Karen Karlsrud (The Chic Strings) - strings
• Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
• Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
• Valerie Haywood (The Chic strings) - strings
• Jon Faddis - trumpet
• Ellen Seeling - trumpet
• Alex Foster - saxophone
• Jean Fineberg - saxophone
• Barry Rodgers - trombone

Production

• Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
• Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
• Bob Clearmountain - sound engineer
• Jackson Schwartz - engineer
• Jeff Hendrickson - engineer
• Jim Galante - engineer
• Peter Robbins - engineer
• Ray Willard - engineer
• Dennis King - mastering
• All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station in New York. Mastered at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.

References

External links

• Risqué (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)