Glad to Know You

"Glad to Know You"
Single by Chas Jankel
from the album Chasanova and Questionnaire
Released 1981
Format 7", 12"
Genre Funk
Length 3:30 (7", Chasanova LP)
6:35 (12", Questionnaire LP)
Label A&M
Writer(s) Chas Jankel
Producer(s) Chas Jankel, Philip Bagenal, Pete Van Hooke
Chas Jankel singles chronology
"Questionnaire"
(1981)
"Glad to Know You"
(1981)
"Without You"
(1983)

Glad to Know You is a 1981 dance single by the former keyboard/guitarist for Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Chas Jankel. Along with the singles, "3,000,000 Synths, and the self penned, "Ai No Corrida", "Glad to Know You" hit #1 on Hot Dance Club Play charts, for seven weeks, becoming the biggest dance single of 1982.[1] Although the single did not make the Hot 100, it peaked at number fifty-seven on the R&B charts.[2]

Preceded by
"You're The One For Me" by D. Train
U.S Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play number-one single along with"3,000,000 Synths"/"Ai No Corrida
February 20, 1982-April 3, 1982
Succeeded by
"Don't Come Crying to Me"/"Let It Ride" by Linda Clifford

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 134.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 292.
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