The Very Best of Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
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| Greatest hits album by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan | |||||
| Released | 1982 | ||||
| Recorded | 1974-1979 | ||||
| Genre | R&B/Funk | ||||
| Length | 42:54 | ||||
| Label | MCA Records | ||||
| Producer | Rufus, Bob Monaco, Quincy Jones, Roy Halee | ||||
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The Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan is a greatest hits album by funk band Rufus (billed as 'Rufus featuring Chaka Khan'), originally released on the MCA Records label in 1982. The collection comprises ten of the group's biggest hits on the ABC/MCA labels, including "You Got the Love," "Sweet Thing". "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)", "Do You Love What You Feel", "Tell Me Something Good", "Stay", "Hollywood" and "Dance Wit Me".
The Very Best of... was released in late 1982, prior to the recording of the band's two final albums, both for the Warner Bros. Records label, and does consequently not include their hits "Ain't Nobody" and "One Million Kisses", both from the 1983 double-set Stompin' at the Savoy - Live. However, it doesn't contain any material from their 1973 self-titled debut album or their recent album at the time, 1981's Camouflage. It also doesn't contain any material from the Khan-less albums Numbers (1979) and Party 'Til You're Broke (1981).
The ten track Very Best of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan was re-released on CD by MCA/Geffen Records in the mid 1990s in both the US and Europe and is to date the only career retrospective available with the band.
Rufus and Chaka Khan's ABC/MCA back catalogue (1973–1982) is as of 2003 distributed by the Universal Music Group.
Track listing
- "Do You Love What You Feel" (Wolinski) - 4:30
- From 1979 album Masterjam
- "Tell Me Something Good" (Wonder) - 4:40
- From 1974 album Rags to Rufus
- "Dance Wit Me" (Christopher) - 4:00
- From 1975 album Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
- "Hollywood" (Fischer, Wolinski) - 4:09
- From 1977 album Ask Rufus
- "Stay" (Calhoun, Khan 5:42
- From 1978 album Street Player
- "Once You Get Started" (Christopher) - 4:31
- From 1974 album Rufusized
- "You Got the Love" (Khan, Parker, Parker) - 4:45
- From 1974 album Rags to Rufus
- "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)" (Maiden, Washburn) - 4:21
- From 1977 album Ask Rufus
- "Please Pardon Me (You Remind Me of a Friend)" (Gordon, Russell) - 3:06
- From 1974 album Rufusized
- "Sweet Thing" (Khan, Maiden) - 3:20
- From 1975 album Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan