Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits, also known as The Best of Chic, is a greatest hits album by the American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1979.
It includes the biggest hits from their first three albums: Chic (1977), C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979).
Chic infused a production savvy, an elegance, and a rockish, full-bodied nature that informed all of the dance essentials on this late-1979 greatest-hits set.
Taking tracks from their three albums from 1977-1979 does sound a little confining, but Greatest Hits more than works and shows the strides the band effortlessly made.
The group's first single, "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)," possesses the class and propulsive nature of prime dance music, with Bernard Edwards' basslines and Nile Rodgers' rhythm guitar giving the band its singular sound.
Divorced from the '20s holdover kitsch of megaphones and "yowsahs," the ebullient "Everybody Dance" put them in a more contemporary setting, if not slightly ahead of the times.
Greatest Hits doesn't trouble itself with getting earlier essentials from the band like "Falling in Love With You" or "Est-Ce Que C'est Chic," and squarely sets its sights on the most successful singles. The entries from C'est Chic include the moody and insistent "I Want Your Love" and the five-million-selling "Le Freak," which features the wry interplay between Edwards, Rodgers, and drummer Tony Thompson.
Greatest Hits takes the sure shots from Risqué, the phenomenal "My Feet Keep Dancing" and the brilliant and sly "Good Times." In many respects this greatest-hits set, while rock-solid, also ended the Chic commercial era a few years before its time.
In fact, this compilation, with its great cover and song selection, might be preferred to the subsequent overviews.
All tracks produced and written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, except "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" co-written by Kenny Lehman.
Track listing
A1. Le Freak (7" Edit) - 3:30
A2. I Want Your Love (7" Edit) - 3:28
A3. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (7" Edit) - 3:40
A4. Everybody Dance" (12" Mix) Chic 8:25
B1. Chic Cheer - 4:42
B2. Good Times (12" Mix) - 8:13
B3. 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.
Notes
Released: December 1979
Recorded: 1977–79
Genre: Disco, funk
Length: 38:44
Producer(s): Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
Label: Atlantic Records
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