Bustin' Loose (Chuck Brown album) explained
Bustin' Loose is a studio album released in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.[1] [2] The album includes the charting single and one of the all-time classic go-go songs "Bustin' Loose",[3] along with a remake of the classic Jerry Butler's soul ballad "Never Give You Up" from the 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh.
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.[4] The single "Bustin' Loose" was also certified gold by the RIAA on March 14, 1979.
Personnel
- 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
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Lornell . Kip . Stephenson, Jr. . Charles C. . 2001 . . . 252 . 0-8230-7727-6 .
- From Go-Go’s Heyday to Today: One Musician’s Love Affair With D.C. Music . 2 December 2016 . The Kojo Nnamdi Show . Nnamdi . Kojo . Kojo Nnamdi . . February 14, 2014 . English.
- Book: Thompson . Dave . Dave Thompson (author) . 2001 . Part Four: The New School . Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion . 1st . . . 297–299 . 0-87930-629-7.
- Web site: Gold & Platinum - RIAA . . 4 November 2016.
