Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits
| Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by Chic | ||||
| Released | December 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1977–79 | |||
| Genre | Disco, funk, R&B, jazz, samba | |||
| Length | 38:44 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards | |||
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Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits a.k.a. The Best of Chic is a greatest hits album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1979, including the biggest hits from their first three albums Chic (1977), C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979).
The seven-track album, which omits the 1979 hit single "My Forbidden Lover" and replaces it with "Chic Cheer" and also combines three 7-inch edits and one extended 12-inch mix with three album versions, was the only compilation to be released during the band's six years on Atlantic and reached #88 on the US charts and #30 in the UK in early 1980. Non-US editions dropped "Chic Cheer" for "My Forbidden Lover". The compilation marked the first time that the 12" mix of "Everybody Dance" was made generally available, having previously been issued only as a promo.
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Track listing
All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, unless otherwise noted.
Side A
- "Le Freak" (7" Edit) - 3:30
- "I Want Your Love" (7" Edit) - 3:28
- "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (7" Edit) (Edwards, Rodgers, Kenny Lehman) - 3:40
- "Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) - 8:25
Side B
- "Chic Cheer" - 4:42 (Replaced on international editions with "My Forbidden Lover" - 4:42)
- "Good Times" - 8:13
- "My Feet Keep Dancing" - 6:46
Personnel
- Alfa Anderson - Lead vocals (A1, A2, B2)
- Luci Martin - Lead vocals (B2, B3)
- Norma Jean Wright - Lead vocals (A4)
- Bernard Edwards - Lead vocals (B3), bass guitar
- Nile Rodgers - guitar, vocals
- Tony Thompson - drums
- Fonzi Thornton - vocals
- Michelle Cobbs - vocals
- Ulland McCullough - vocals
- Luther Vandross - vocals
- David Lasley - vocals
- Robin Clark - vocals
- Diva Gray - lead vocals (A1)
- Sammy Figueroa - percussion
- Robert Sabino - keyboards, clavinet, acoustic piano and electric piano
- Andy Schwartz - keyboards, clavinet, acoustic and electric piano
- Raymond Jones - keyboards
- Robert Sabino - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Tom Coppola - keyboards
- Jon Faddis - trumpet
- Ellen Seeling - trumpet
- Alex Foster - saxophone
- Jean Fineberg - saxophone
- Barry Rodgers - trombone
- Kenny Lehman - woodwinds
- George Young - flute, tenor saxophone
- Vito Rendace - flute, tenor saxophone
- David Friedman - orchestral bells, vibraphones
- Jose Rossy - tubular bells
- Gloria Augustini - harp
- Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Karen Karlsrud (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Valerie Haywood (The Chic strings) - strings
- Gene Orloff - concertmaster
- Alfred Brown - strings contractor
Production
- Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Kenny Lehman - co-producer (track A4)
- Jackson Schwartz - engineer
- Jeff Hendrickson - engineer
- Jim Galante - engineer
- Peter Robbins - engineer
- Ray Willard - engineer
- Burt Szerlip - engineer
- Dennis King - mastering
- All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station in New York. Mastered at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.