Good to Go Lover
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| Studio album by Gwen Guthrie | ||||
| Released | January 1, 1986 | |||
| Genre |
Garage 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 | ||||
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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 spawned 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.
Track listing
- Side A
- "(They Long To Be) Close To You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 5:31
- "Outside in the Rain" (David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend, Joshua Thompson) – 5:18
- "Good to Go Lover" (Gwen Guthrie, Bill Hagans) - 6:05
- "You Touched My Life" (Gwen Guthrie) – 5:08
- Side B
- "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" (Gwen Guthrie) – 5:59
- "I Still Want You" (David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend) – 4:38
- "Stop Holding Back" (David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend) – 5:58
- "Passion Eyes" (Charles 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] | #89 |
| UK Albums Chart[3] | #42 |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions[1] | ||||||
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| 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 | #5 | ||
| 1986 | "Outside the Rain" | — | #51 | — | — | — | ||
| 1987 | "(They Long To Be) Close To You" | — | #69 | — | — | #26 | ||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Good to Go Lover at Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
- ↑ Joel Whitburn (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974–2003, (Record Research Inc.)
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 238. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.