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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| Name = Go Go Swing Live
| name = Go Go Swing Live
| Type = album
| type = live
| Artist = [[Chuck Brown|Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers]]
| artist = [[Chuck Brown|Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers]]
| Cover =
| cover = Go-Go Swing Live album cover.png
| Released = 1986
| alt =
| Recorded = 1986
| released = 1986
| recorded = 1986
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| Genre = [[Go-go]], [[Swing (jazz performance style)|swing]], [[jazz]]
| venue = The Crystal Skate<br>[[Temple Hills, Maryland]]
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| Length = 1:01:09
| Label = Future Sound Records
| studio =
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| genre = {{hlist| [[Go-go]] | [[Swing (jazz performance style)|swing]] | [[jazz-funk]] }}
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| Producer = Reo Edwards
| length = {{Duration|m=61|s=09}}
| Last album = ''[[We Need Some Money]]''<br />(1984)
| label = Future Sound Records
| This album = '''''Go Go Swing Live'''''<br />(1986)
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| producer = Reo Edwards
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| Next album = ''Any Other Way to Go?''<br />(1987)
| prev_title = [[Funk Express]]
| prev_year = 1980
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| next_title = [[Any Other Way to Go?]]
| next_year = 1987
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 =[[Allmusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic |class=album |id=go-go-swing-live-mw0000245299 |tab=overview |label=Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: ''Go Go Swing Live'' > Review |first=Andrew |last=Hamilton|accessdate=10 August 2016}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Allmusic |class=album |id=go-go-swing-live-mw0000245299 |tab=overview |label=Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: ''Go Go Swing Live'' > Review |first=Andrew |last=Hamilton|accessdate=10 August 2016}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Artistdirect|ARTISTdirect]]
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews |url=http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/albums/releases/chuck-brown/408718 |publisher=[[Artistdirect|ARTISTdirect]]|accessdate=3 November 2016 }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[MusicHound|musicHound R&B]]''
| rev3Score = (4/5)<ref name="mHound">{{cite book |last1=Graff |first1=Gary |last2=Freedom du Lac |first2=Josh |last3=McFarlin |first3=Jim |editor-last=Terrell |editor-first=Tom |year=1998 |title=[[MusicHound|musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide]] |location=[[Detroit]] |publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]] |edition=1st |chapter=''A-Z Guide to R&B Acts'': Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers |page=[https://archive.org/details/musichoundrbesse00graf/page/78 78] |isbn=1-57859-026-4 }}</ref>
}}
}}
'''''Go Go Swing Live''''' is a [[live album]] recorded and released in [[1986]] by the [[Washington, D.C.]]–based [[go-go]] band [[Chuck Brown|Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers]].<ref name="ThirdEye">{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |author-link1=Dave Thompson (author) |year=2001 |chapter=Part Four: ''The New School'' |title=Funk: Third Ear - ''The Essential Listening Companion'' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIEjkWXZdrMC |edition=1st |location=[[San Francisco]] |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation|BackBeat Books]] |pages=297–299 |isbn=0-87930-629-7}}</ref><ref name="TheBeat1stEd">{{cite book |last1=Lornell |first1=Kip |last2=Stephenson |first2=Charles C. Jr.|date=2001 |title=[[The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop]] |publisher=[[Billboard Books]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/beatgogosfusion00lorn/page/252 252] |isbn=0-8230-7727-6 }}</ref><ref name=Kojo>{{cite episode|title=From Go-Go’s Heyday to Today: One Musician’s Love Affair With D.C. Music |url=http://wamu.org/story/14/02/14/from_go_gos_heyday_to_today_one_musicians_love_affair_with_dc_music/ |access-date=2 December 2016 |series=The Kojo Nnamdi Show |last1=Nnamdi |first1=Kojo |author-link=Kojo Nnamdi |station=[[WAMU]] |date=February 14, 2014 |language=English}}</ref> The album was recorded at the Crystal Skate (in [[Temple Hills, Maryland]]) and at the RSVP (a defunct [[music venue|nightclub]] in Washington, D.C.)<ref name=DCist>{{cite web |title=11 Of The Best Albums Recorded in the D.C. Area |url=http://dcist.com/2016/08/the_best_albums_recorded_in_the_dc.php |first=Sriram |last=Gopal |date=August 4, 2016 |publisher=[[Gothamist|DCist]] |access-date=26 November 2016 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115001018/http://dcist.com/2016/08/the_best_albums_recorded_in_the_dc.php |archivedate=15 November 2016 }}</ref><ref name=Kojo />
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'''''Go Go Swing Live''''' is a [[live album]] recorded and released in 1986 by the [[Washington, D.C.]]-based [[go-go]] band [[Chuck Brown|Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers]]. The album consists go-go renditions of classic [[jazz]] and [[Swing (jazz performance style)|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".

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The album consists of go-go renditions of classic [[jazz]] and [[Swing (jazz performance style)|swing]] songs performed with a go-go beat. The album is especially known for remakes of the [[calypso music|calypso]] song "Run Joe", and the swing songs "Stormy Monday" and "It Don't Mean a Thing". The album was ranked No. 1 as the "Best Album Recorded in D.C." by [[Gothamist|DCist]].<ref name=DCist />


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
{{Track listing
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| total_length = {{Duration|m=61|s=09}}
| writing_credits = yes
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| total_length = 1:01:09


| title1 = [[It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)|It Don't Mean a Thing]] (If It Don't Have the Go Go Swing)
| title1 = [[It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)|It Don't Mean a Thing]] (If It Don't Have the Go Go Swing)
| writer1 = {{flat list|
| writer1 = {{hlist| [[Duke Ellington]] | [[Irving Mills]] }}
* [[Duke Ellington]]
* [[Irving Mills]]
}}
| length1 = 3:15
| length1 = 3:15


| title2 = [[Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke song)|Midnight Sun]]
| title2 = [[Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke song)|Midnight Sun]]
| writer2 = {{flat list|
| writer2 = {{hlist| [[Sonny Burke]] | [[Lionel Hampton]] | [[Johnny Mercer]] }}
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| length2 = 3:23
* [[Sonny Burke]]
* [[Lionel Hampton]]
* [[Johnny Mercer]]
}}
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| length2 = 3:23


| title3 = [[I'm in the Mood for Love|Moody's Mood]]
| title3 = [[Moody's Mood for Love|Moody's Mood]]
| writer3 = {{hlist| [[Dorothy Fields]] | [[Jimmy McHugh]] | [[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]] }}
| writer3 = {{flat list|
* [[Dorothy Fields]]
* [[Jimmy McHugh]]
* [[James Moody]]
}}
| length3 = 5:07
| length3 = 5:07


| title4 = Woody Woodpecker
| title4 = Woody Woodpecker
| writer4 = {{flat list|
| writer4 = {{hlist| [[Louis Jordan]] | Joe Willoughby }}
* [[Louis Jordan]]
* Joe Willoughby
}}
| length4 = 2:23
| length4 = 2:23


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| title6 = Run Joe
| title6 = Run Joe
| writer6 = {{flat list|
| writer6 = {{hlist| [[Louis Jordan]] | Joe Willoughby }}
* [[Louis Jordan]]
* Joe Willoughby
}}
| length6 = 8:54
| length6 = 8:54


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| writer10 = [[Billy Strayhorn]]
| writer10 = [[Billy Strayhorn]]
| length10 = 4:51
| length10 = 4:51

|title11 = [[Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)|Day-O]]
|writer11 = [[Lord Burgess|Irving Burgie]]
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|length11 = 8:31
}}
}}

==Personnel==
* Chuck Brown – [[lead vocalist|lead vocals]], [[electric guitar]]
* Ricardo D. Wellman – [[drum kit|drums]]
* Rowland Smith – [[conga]]s, backing vocals
* Glenn Ellis – [[bass guitar]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
* Curtis Johnson – [[electric keyboard|keyboards]]
* John M. Buchannan – keyboards, [[trombone]]
* Leroy Fleming – [[tenor saxophone]], backing vocals
* Donald Tillery – [[trumpet]], tambourine, backing vocals


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist|30em}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.discogs.com/Chuck-Brown-And-The-Soul-Searchers-Go-Go-Swing-Live/release/5273387 Go Go Swing Live at Discogs.com]
*[https://www.discogs.com/Chuck-Brown-And-The-Soul-Searchers-Go-Go-Swing-Live/release/5273387 ''Go Go Swing Live''] at [[Discogs.com]]

{{Chuck Brown}}


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[[Category:1986 albums]]
[[Category:1986 live albums]]
[[Category:1986 live albums]]
[[Category:Go-go albums]]
[[Category:Chuck Brown albums]]
[[Category:Rhythm and blues albums by American artists]]
[[Category:Live rhythm and blues albums]]
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[[Category:Live jazz-funk albums]]

Latest revision as of 13:27, 31 October 2024

Go Go Swing Live
Live album by
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers
Released1986
Recorded1986
VenueThe Crystal Skate
Temple Hills, Maryland
Genre
Length61:09
LabelFuture Sound Records
ProducerReo Edwards
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers chronology
Funk Express
(1980) 		Go Go Swing Live
(1986) 		Any Other Way to Go?
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
ARTISTdirect[2]
musicHound R&B(4/5)[3]

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.[4][5][6] The album was recorded at the Crystal Skate (in Temple Hills, Maryland) and at the RSVP (a defunct nightclub in Washington, D.C.)[7][6]

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 No. 1 as the "Best Album Recorded in D.C." by DCist.[7]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Don't Have the Go Go Swing)"
3:15
2."Midnight Sun"
3:23
3."Moody's Mood"
5:07
4."Woody Woodpecker"
2:23
5."Harlem Nocturne"Earle H. Hagen5:49
6."Run Joe"
8:54
7."Stormy Monday"T-Bone Walker5:46
8."Boogie on Go-Go Woman"Stevie Wonder7:02
9."Family Affair"Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart6:12
10."Take the Go-Go Train"Billy Strayhorn4:51
11."Day-O"Irving Burgie8:31
Total length:61:09

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Hamilton, Andrew. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Go Go Swing Live > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews". ARTISTdirect. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  3. ^ Graff, Gary; Freedom du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (1998). "A-Z Guide to R&B Acts: Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers". In Terrell, Tom (ed.). musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 78. ISBN 1-57859-026-4.
  4. ^ Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School". Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco: BackBeat Books. pp. 297–299. ISBN 0-87930-629-7.
  5. ^ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Charles C. Jr. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop. Billboard Books. p. 252. ISBN 0-8230-7727-6.
  6. ^ a b Nnamdi, Kojo (February 14, 2014). "From Go-Go's Heyday to Today: One Musician's Love Affair With D.C. Music". The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  7. ^ a b Gopal, Sriram (August 4, 2016). "11 Of The Best Albums Recorded in the D.C. Area". DCist. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
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