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Released in 1978, just as disco began to peak, C'est Chic and its pair of dancefloor anthems, "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love," put Chic at the top of that dizzying peak. The right album at the right time, C'est Chic is essentially a rehash of Chic, the group's so-so self-titled debut from a year earlier. That first album also boasted a pair of floor-filling anthems, "Dance Dance Dance" and "Everybody Dance," and, like C'est Chic, it filled itself out with a mix of disco and ballads. So, essentially, C'est Chic does everything its predecessor did, except it does so masterfully: each side similarly gets its timeless floor-filler ("Le Freak," "I Want Your Love"), quiet storm come-down ("Savoir Faire," "At Last I Am Free"), feel-good album track ("Happy Man," "Sometimes You Win"), and moody album capper ("Chic Cheer," "[Funny] Bone"). Producers Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were quite a savvy pair and knew that disco was as much a formula as anything. As evidenced here, they definitely had their fingers on the pulse of the moment, and used their perceptive touch to craft one of the few truly great disco albums. In fact, you could even argue that C'est Chic very well may be the definitive disco album. After all, countless artists scored dancefloor hits, but few could deliver an album this solid, and nearly as few could deliver one this epochal as well. C'est Chic embodies everything wonderful and excessive about disco at its pixilated peak. It's anything but subtle with its at-the-disco dancefloor mania and after-the-disco bedroom balladry, and Edwards and Rodgers are anything but whimsical with their disco-ballad-disco album sequencing and pseudo-jet-set Euro poshness. Chic would follow C'est Chic with "Good Times," the group's crowning achievement, but never again would Edwards and Rodgers assemble an album as perfectly calculated as C'est Chic.
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David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Diva Gray, Vocals - Dennis King, Masterer - Jon Faddis, Trumpet - Alfa Anderson, Vocals - Cheryl Hong, Strings - Ellen Seeling, Trumpet - Jean Fineberg, Saxophone - Jose Rossy, Bells - Karen Milne, Strings - Marianne Carroll, Strings - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Alex Foster, Saxophone - Barry Rogers, Trombone - Tony Thompson, Drums
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Vocals, Writer, Bass - Jon Faddis, Trumpet - Alfa Anderson, Lead Vocals - Cheryl Hong, Strings - Ellen Seeling, Trumpet - Jose Rossy, Bells - Karen Milne, Strings - Marianne Carroll, Strings - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Barry Rogers, Trombone - Tony Thompson, Drums
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dennis King, Masterer - Cheryl Hong, Strings - Karen Milne, Strings - Marianne Carroll, Strings - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Tony Thompson, Drums
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Diva Gray, Vocals - Dennis King, Masterer - Alfa Anderson, Vocals - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Tony Thompson, Drums
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Writer - Dennis King, Masterer - Jon Faddis, Trumpet - Alfa Anderson, Vocals - Cheryl Hong, Strings - Ellen Seeling, Trumpet - Jose Rossy, Bells - Karen Milne, Strings - Marianne Carroll, Strings - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Barry Rogers, Trombone - Tony Thompson, Drums
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Diva Gray, Vocals - Dennis King, Masterer - Jon Faddis, Trumpet - Alfa Anderson, Vocals - Cheryl Hong, Strings - Ellen Seeling, Trumpet - Jean Fineberg, Saxophone - Jose Rossy, Bells - Karen Milne, Strings - Marianne Carroll, Strings - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Alex Foster, Saxophone - Barry Rogers, Trombone - Tony Thompson, Drums - Andy Schwartz, Keyboards
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Diva Gray, Vocals - Dennis King, Masterer - Jon Faddis, Trumpet - Alfa Anderson, Vocals - Ellen Seeling, Trumpet - Jean Fineberg, Saxophone - Jose Rossy, Bells - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Alex Foster, Saxophone - Barry Rogers, Trombone - Tony Thompson, Drums - Burt Szerlip, Engineer
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
David Lasley, Vocals - Sammy Figueroa, Percussion - Luci Martin, Vocals - Luther Vandross, Vocals - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Producer, Guitar, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Producer, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Diva Gray, Vocals - Dennis King, Masterer - Jon Faddis, Trumpet - Alfa Anderson, Vocals - Cheryl Hong, Strings - Ellen Seeling, Trumpet - Jean Fineberg, Saxophone - Jose Rossy, Bells - Karen Milne, Strings - Marianne Carroll, Strings - Raymond Jones, Keyboards - Robert Sabino, Keyboards - Chic, MainArtist - Alex Foster, Saxophone - Barry Rogers, Trombone - Tony Thompson, Drums
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records
Album review
Released in 1978, just as disco began to peak, C'est Chic and its pair of dancefloor anthems, "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love," put Chic at the top of that dizzying peak. The right album at the right time, C'est Chic is essentially a rehash of Chic, the group's so-so self-titled debut from a year earlier. That first album also boasted a pair of floor-filling anthems, "Dance Dance Dance" and "Everybody Dance," and, like C'est Chic, it filled itself out with a mix of disco and ballads. So, essentially, C'est Chic does everything its predecessor did, except it does so masterfully: each side similarly gets its timeless floor-filler ("Le Freak," "I Want Your Love"), quiet storm come-down ("Savoir Faire," "At Last I Am Free"), feel-good album track ("Happy Man," "Sometimes You Win"), and moody album capper ("Chic Cheer," "[Funny] Bone"). Producers Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were quite a savvy pair and knew that disco was as much a formula as anything. As evidenced here, they definitely had their fingers on the pulse of the moment, and used their perceptive touch to craft one of the few truly great disco albums. In fact, you could even argue that C'est Chic very well may be the definitive disco album. After all, countless artists scored dancefloor hits, but few could deliver an album this solid, and nearly as few could deliver one this epochal as well. C'est Chic embodies everything wonderful and excessive about disco at its pixilated peak. It's anything but subtle with its at-the-disco dancefloor mania and after-the-disco bedroom balladry, and Edwards and Rodgers are anything but whimsical with their disco-ballad-disco album sequencing and pseudo-jet-set Euro poshness. Chic would follow C'est Chic with "Good Times," the group's crowning achievement, but never again would Edwards and Rodgers assemble an album as perfectly calculated as C'est Chic.
© Jason Birchmeier /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:03
- Main artists: Chic
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino Atlantic
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B Disco
© 1978 Atlantic Records Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing. ℗ 1978 Atlantic Records1978 Atlantic Records. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Group, a Warner Music Group Company.
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