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1979 studio album by Chuck Brown
Bustin' Loose Released 1979 Studio Sigma Sound , Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaGenre Length 39 :06 [1] Label Source, MCA Producer James Purdie Logan H. Westbrooks
"Bustin' Loose " Released: October 1978
"Never Gonna Give You Up" Released: 1979
"Game Seven" Released: April 1979
Bustin' Loose is a studio album released in 1979 by the Washington, D.C. -based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers .[1] [6] [7] The album includes the charting single and one of the all-time classic go-go songs "Bustin' Loose ",[8] along with a remake of the classic Jerry Butler 's soul ballad "Never Give You Up " from the 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh .[1]
Bustin' Loose became Brown's first album to chart on the Billboard 200 , where it peaked at number 31. On August 10, 1979, Bustin' Loose was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America , for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States .[9] The single "Bustin' Loose " was also certified gold by the RIAA on March 14, 1979.[9]
Track listing [ edit ]
Title Writer(s) 1. "Bustin' Loose " Chuck Brown 7:39 2. "Never Gonna Give You Up " 5:40 3. "If It Ain't Funky" Chuck Brown 6:01 4. "I Gotcha Now" Chuck Brown John "JB" Buchanan Leroy Fleming Curtis Johnson Donald Tillery Jerry Wilder 5:03 5. "Could It Be Love" Shirley Chevalier James Purdie 5:19 6. "Games Seven" Chuck Brown John "JB" Buchanan Leroy Fleming Curtis Johnson Donald Tillery Jerry Wilder 6:13 7. "Berro E Sombaro" Chuck Brown John "JB" Buchanan Leroy Fleming Curtis Johnson Donald Tillery Jerry Wilder 3:11 Total length: 39 :06
Personnel [ edit ]
Chuck Brown – lead vocals , electric guitar
Jerry Wilder – bass guitar , backing vocals
Gregory Gerran – congas , percussion
Ricky Wellman – drums
Leroy Fleming – tenor saxophone , flute, timbales , backing vocals
Skip Fennell – keyboards
Curtis Johnson - organ
John Buchanan – keyboards, trombone, backing vocals
Donald Tillery – trumpet, tambourine, backing vocals
Leron Young - lead guitar on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be :ove"
Don Renaldo - strings on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be Love"
Lincoln Ross - trombone on "Bustin' Loose"
Technical
Logan H. Westbrooks - executive producer
Carl Paruolo - engineer
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d Henderson, Alex. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Bustin' Loose > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved 19 August 2016.
^ "Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews" . ARTISTdirect . Retrieved 3 November 2016 .
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B" . Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields . ISBN 089919026X . Retrieved February 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Graff, Gary; Freedom du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (1998). "A-Z Guide to R&B Acts : Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers". In Terrell, Tom (ed.). musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). Detroit : Visible Ink Press . p. 78 . ISBN 1-57859-026-4 .
^ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul . Virgin. p. 40.
^ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop . Billboard Books . p. 252 . ISBN 0-8230-7727-6 .
^ Nnamdi, Kojo (February 14, 2014). "From Go-Go's Heyday to Today: One Musician's Love Affair With D.C. Music" . The Kojo Nnamdi Show . WAMU . Retrieved 2 December 2016 .
^ Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School ". Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco : BackBeat Books . pp. 297–299. ISBN 0-87930-629-7 .
^ a b "Gold & Platinum - RIAA" . RIAA . Retrieved 4 November 2016 .
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