Go Go Swing Live

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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 & 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.) 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.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Don't Have the Go Go Swing)"	Duke Ellington Irving Mills	3:15
2.	"Midnight Sun"	Sonny Burke Lionel Hampton Johnny Mercer	3:23
3.	"Moody's Mood"	Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh James Moody	5:07
4.	"Woody Woodpecker"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	2:23
5.	"Harlem Nocturne"	Earle H. Hagen	5:49
6.	"Run Joe"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	8:54
7.	"Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	5:46
8.	"Boogie on Go-Go Woman"	Stevie Wonder	7:02
9.	"Family Affair"	Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart	6:12
10.	"Take the Go-Go Train"	Billy Strayhorn	4:51
11.	"Day-O"	Irving Burgie	8:31
Total length:			61:09

Personnel

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

External links

• Go Go Swing Live at Discogs.com