Years active 1977–1979 | Active until 1979 | |
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Members Curtis "CJ" DurdenConnie DurdenJoni TolbertCharles ClarkCornelius Brown Similar Herizen Guardiola, Dennis Coffey, Fatback Band, Skylan Brooks, Garland Jeffreys | ||
C.J. & Company (also C.J. & Co. or C.C. & Co.) was a disco group from Detroit, Michigan. They were the partnership of producers, funk-brother, Dennis Coffey & Mike Theodore. Their highest charting single in the US was "Devil's Gun", which reached #36 on the Billboard pop chart, spending 29 weeks on the HOT 100. It wound up being the #100 song of the year on BILLBOARD's year end charts, (though only peaking at #36), and #2 on the R&B chart in 1977. It also peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart. That song, along with "We Got Our Own Thing" (later sampled by Heavy D and the Boyz) and "Sure Can't Go to the Moon," hit #1 for five weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
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They released two full-length LPs, 'Devil's Gun' (1977) and 'Deadeye Dick' (1978) both for Westbound Records. In 1998 a compilation CD was released with full length selected tracks from both LPs.
"Devil's Gun" was the first record played at the opening of Studio 54 by DJ Richie Kaczor.
An instrumental version of "Devil's Gun" was featured prominently in the International version of Crocodile.
Compilation albums
Singles
Songs
Devil's GunThe Get Down · 2016
We Got Our Own ThingDevil's Gun · 1977
Sure Can't Go to the MoonDevil's Gun · 1977