Chic-esque music.

[Summerlover]

Growing up i heard & liked "Don't hold back" by Chanson on the radio & always used to confuse it with Chic - very similar sophisticated disco sound, imo
:o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDwYsfinkw

[Cory Ander]

Tracks that I personally think were influenced by the Chic sound include:

'Ill Do My Best' - Ritchie Family
'Try It Out' - Gino Soccio
'Dont You want My Lovin' - Wanda Walden
'Heartache no.9' - Delegation
'Dont Sneak On Me' - Michael Zager
'On Top' - Change
'I Want Your love To Last' - Hi Gloss
'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life' - Indeep
'Its Good to be the King' - Mel Brooks (bizarre i know but its only my opinion! :) )

Sandra: isn't "Don't You Want My Lovin'?" the Chic-est non Chic song you've ever heard? And the Wanda Walden album is one of my most prized possession, doubt it'll ever be on CD. If you get the chance, check out "Is It Love?" by the Gang of 4....not only Chic-y, but one of Chic's singers performs on it.

[SandraDee]

isn't "Don't You Want My Lovin'?" the Chic-est non Chic song you've ever heard? And the Wanda Walden album is one of my most prized possession, doubt it'll ever be on CD. If you get the chance, check out "Is It Love?" by the Gang of 4....not only Chic-y, but one of Chic's singers performs on it.

Cory, that Wanda Walden track has to be one of the best & most under-rated ones of '81, & I love the equally under-rated 'I Must Be Dreaming' from Wanda in '82 (where she was very Evelyn King/Kashif-esque this time!). I'll check out the Gang Of 4 track, it sounds interesting, thanks.:icon_razz:

[cbelisimmo]

This single are my favorite of the best Billboard Top R&B in 1970 -1971 -1972,

http://www.mixupload.com/media-BestRnB707172


and for Disco my favorite early Disco 80'

http://www.mixupload.com/media-Studio5480Years


Studio54

[Cory Ander]

As far as Chic organization goes I think you may have covered most of the albums, except for.

Soup For One - soundtrack from the movie (1982)

But as far as Bernard and Nile as producers here are few of their solo projects:

Nile Rodgers:

Nile Rodgers - Adventures In The Land Of The Good Groove (1983)
David Bowie - Let's Dance (1983)
Madonna - Like A Virgin (1984)
Inxs - The Swing (1984)
Nile Rodgers - B-Movie Matinee (1985)
Grace Jones - Inside Story (1986)
Diana Ross - Workin' Overtime (1989)


Bernard Edwards:

Bernard Edwards - Glad To Be Here (1983)
Robert Palmer - Riptide (1985)
The Power Station - The Power Station (1985)
The Power Station - Living In Fear (1996)

As far as finding chic-like music from that time period, I don't think you'll do any better then with the disco group Change. They emulated the Chic sound so well that most people had a tough time figuring out who was Chic and who was Change.

Just check out these songs by Change and see what I mean:

A Lover's Holiday (1980)
Paradise (1981)
Hold Tight (1981)
Change Of Heart (1984) sounds a little like "My Forbidden Lover" by Chic
Let's Go Together

If you wish to do some more research on Chic just go to the fan site www.chictribute.com. Hope this helps.

DevP

actually Edwards was involved in far more projects than you've listed here, including production projects for Joe Cocker, Air Supply, Beloise Some, Robert Palmer, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart and many many others I can't remember now. He also was part of a obscure group project from 1989 called Distance...I recently discovered their album "Under the One Sky" on Reprise Records (I'm hoping it'll be a collectors item some day). I loved the way many people seemed to gain a new respect for bass playing because of Edwards, though I loved many bassists' work before Edwards, especially Larry Graham, former Free bassist Andy Fraser, Jaco Pastorius, all the Motown bass players and all of James Brown's bassists.

[boogienights]

CELA - "I'm In Love" 1979 very Chic like funky and moody. One of my favs.:icon_cool:

[FranceJoliFan]

Saint Tropez was always chic. But on their third album, they sounded Chic on Midnight Fantasy:



(Also sounds like Never Knew Love Like This Before.)

[dvdjamm]

YouTube - Gang Of Four - Is It Love the Gang Of Four video for Is It Love

[Disco Funk]

Disco Funk

[The Owl]

The band Change (that featured an up and coming Luther Vandross) often reminded me of Chic in their production, arrangements and writing.

[ngroove]

If nobody mentioned it yet, Dynasty's " I Don't Wanna Be A Freak (But I Can't Help Myself).

[Marcio**]

The promo version of ''Rock Your Body'' by Justin Timberlake (2002)
I'm talking about the bassline


Sorry some commercial

[skiddlybop]

Good thread, youse guys...I always found the Ariola recordings of Chanson, the group led by Motown bass genius James Jamerson's son, to be styled after Chic's model, top to bottom, especially in the sound and imaging of the first album and single, "Don't Hold Back." Boogyjuice, thanks for the later Kano and Peter Jacques Band video links, Luther co-wrote the title track of the "Welcome Back" LP, probably priced out of the US market for licensing in the high-stakes backwash of Change's gold-level Stateside album sales.Odd, now that I think of it, that Atlantic and Emergency managed to pick up that second Kano after the single "I'm Ready" was such a huge R&B retail record. But may I also say, though I was nervous about pointing it out at the time, the intro and entire rhythm track of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" [ later fingered by greater minds than mine as an Anglicised cover of Jorge Ben's song "Taj Mahal"] picks up at the climactic moment of "(Yowsah, Yowsah)" about three -to-four minutes in, just before the 45 fades, when Bernard takes the bass line up nearly an octave, with the intensifying effect of a big upward key modulation. Rod and the iconic Atlantic producer Tom Dowd pulled an early and killingly exciting mash-up move here,and I kind of wish Disconet had done an edited medley of the two or even three relevant songs -- acknowledging all sources much the way an alt-pop group in the 1990s, sampling "I'll Take You There," also cleared for publishing the basis of that Staple Singers song, Harry J. All Stars' "Liquidator." I think earlier Slave songs like "Feel My Love," prior to the spin-off of Aurra from Slave's large, talent-packed first ensemble, shared much of the choral arrangement approach of Chic, as did Bionic Boogie, slightly previously, in "Dance Little Dreamer" and, long previously, Love Unlimited in "I'm Under the Influence of Love" and "Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It." and Labelle in most of their recorded work. Of course, that's just saying that choir arrangement is what it always was, cycling between unison and harmony parts to give emotional and narrative emphasis and momentum to the entire song as it runs through.

[The Disco Dentist]

Good thread, youse guys...I always found the Ariola recordings of Chanson, the group led by Motown bass genius James Jamerson's son, to be styled after Chic's model, top to bottom, especially in the sound and imaging of the first album and single, "Don't Hold Back." Boogyjuice, thanks for the later Kano and Peter Jacques Band video links, Luther co-wrote the title track of the "Welcome Back" LP, probably priced out of the US market for licensing in the high-stakes backwash of Change's gold-level Stateside album sales.Odd, now that I think of it, that Atlantic and Emergency managed to pick up that second Kano after the single "I'm Ready" was such a huge R&B retail record. But may I also say, though I was nervous about pointing it out at the time, the intro and entire rhythm track of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" [ later fingered by greater minds than mine as an Anglicised cover of Jorge Ben's song "Taj Mahal"] picks up at the climactic moment of "(Yowsah, Yowsah)" about three -to-four minutes in, just before the 45 fades, when Bernard takes the bass line up nearly an octave, with the intensifying effect of a big upward key modulation. Rod and the iconic Atlantic producer Tom Dowd pulled an early and killingly exciting mash-up move here,and I kind of wish Disconet had done an edited medley of the two or even three relevant songs -- acknowledging all sources much the way an alt-pop group in the 1990s, sampling "I'll Take You There," also cleared for publishing the basis of that Staple Singers song, Harry J. All Stars' "Liquidator." I think earlier Slave songs like "Feel My Love," prior to the spin-off of Aurra from Slave's large, talent-packed first ensemble, shared much of the choral arrangement approach of Chic, as did Bionic Boogie, slightly previously, in "Dance Little Dreamer" and, long previously, Love Unlimited in "I'm Under the Influence of Love" and "Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It." and Labelle in most of their recorded work. Of course, that's just saying that choir arrangement is what it always was, cycling between unison and harmony parts to give emotional and narrative emphasis and momentum to the entire song as it runs through.

Hi Mr Skiddles !
Reading your posts make me realise how much I still have to discover about disco/dance music ( not that I was under any illusions).
Many, many thanks.
All the best
DD