| Boogie Down | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Eddie Kendricks |
| Album: | Boogie Down! |
| B-Side: | Can't Help What I Am |
| Released: | December 1973 |
| Recorded: | 1973 |
| Genre: | Disco, funk, R&B |
| Length: | 3:48 (single edit) 7:02 (album version) |
| Label: | Tamla T 54243 |
| Producer: | Frank Wilson & Leonard Caston, Jr. |
| Prev Title: | Keep On Truckin' |
| Prev Year: | 1973 |
| Next Title: | One Tear |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
"Boogie Down" is a 1973 song which was recorded by Eddie Kendricks for Motown Records' Tamla label. The song was co-written by Leonard Caston Jr., Anita Poree and Frank Wilson, the same songwriting team that had composed "Keep On Truckin'", Kendricks' first major hit as a solo artist. Caston and Wilson co-produced the song and the arrangement was handled by Caston, Wilson and David Van De Pitte.
Like "Keep on Truckin'", "Boogie Down" is an up-tempo, disco, dance number that saw heavy rotation in dance clubs. Released as a single from the album of the same name, "Boogie Down" became Kendricks' second consecutive single to top the Billboard's R&B Singles Chart, holding the number one position for three weeks.[1]
It just missed becoming his second straight #1 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, peaking at number two for two straight weeks, behind "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks.[2] However, it was Kendricks' second #1 single on the Cash Box Top 100 chart. Billboard ranked it as the #30 Pop single of 1974. Outside the US, it was a Top 40 hit in Britain as well, hitting #39 on the UK Charts.
Credits adapted from The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits.[3]