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Go Go Swing Live

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Released
  
1986

Length
  
61:09

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Future Records & Tapes

Recorded
  
1986

Producer
  
Reo Edwards

Genre
  
R&B/soul

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Venue
  
The Crystal Skate Temple Hills, Maryland

Go Go Swing Live (1986)
  
Any Other Way to Go? (1987)

Artist
  
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

Similar
  
Go-go albums, Other albums

Go Go Swing Live is a live album recorded and released in 1986 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers. The album was recorded at the Crystal Skate (in Temple Hills, Maryland) and at the RSVP (a defunct nightclub in Washington, D.C.)

Contents

The album consists of go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat. The album is especially known for remakes of the calypso song "Run Joe", and the swing songs "Stormy Monday" and "It Don't Mean a Thing". The album was ranked #1 as the "Best Album Recorded in D.C." by DCist.

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Personnel

  • Chuck Brown – lead vocals, electric guitar
  • Ricardo D. Wellman – drums
  • Rowland Smith – congas, backing vocals
  • Glenn Ellis – bass guitar, percussion
  • Curtis Johnson – keyboards
  • John M. Buchannan – keyboards, trombone
  • Leroy Fleming – tenor saxophone, backing vocals
  • Donald Tillery – trumpet, tambourine, backing vocals

    • Songs

    1It Don't Mean A Thing - If It Don't Have The Go Go Swing3:15
    2Midnight Sun3:24
    3Moody's Mood5:08

    References

    Go Go Swing Live Wikipedia
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