C'est Chic

Infobox Album
Name = C'est Chic
Type = Album
Artist = Chic


Background = Orange
Released = August 11 1978
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz
Length = 41:23
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = Nile Rodgers,
Bernard Edwards
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0pdjyl2jxpeb link] |
Last album = "Chic"
(1977)
This album = "C'est Chic"
(1978)
Next album = "Risqué"
(1979)

"C'est Chic" is the second studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in 1978. "C'est Chic" includes the band's classic hit "Le Freak" which topped the US Hot 100 chart, US R&B, "and" US Club Play in October 1978, selling six million copies in the US alone and is to date both Atlantic Records' and parent company Warner Music's bestselling single ever - a record it's held for nearly thirty years. "C'est Chic" also contains follow-up single " I Want Your Love" (#5 R&B, #7 Pop February 17, 1979) and the track which since has become the band's anthem; "Chic Cheer".
The "C'est Chic" album reached #4 on Billboard's album chart and topped the US R&B chart.
"C'est Chic" was transferred to compact disc and re-released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1991 (catalogue number 7567-81552-2), and remains one of two Chic studio albums never to have been reissued in digitally remastered form.

Track listing

"All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers."
Side A:
# "Chic Cheer" - 4:42
# "Le Freak" - 5:23 audio|Chic - Le Freak.ogg|Listen
# "Savoir Faire" - 5:01
# "Happy Man" - 4:17Side B:
# " I Want Your Love" - 6:45 audio|Chic - I Want Your Love.ogg|Listen
# "At Last I Am Free" - 7:08
# "Sometimes You Win" - 4:26
# "(Funny) Bone" - 3:41

Personnel

* Alfa Anderson - vocals
* Bernard Edwards - vocals, bass guitar
* Diva Gray - vocals
* Luci Martin - vocals
* David Lasley - vocals
* Luther Vandross - vocals
* Nile Rodgers - guitar
* Tony Thompson - drums
* Robert Sabino - clavinet, acoustic piano and electric piano
* Andy Schwartz - clavinet, acoustic piano and electric piano
* Raymond Jones - Fender Rhodes
* Sammy Figueroa - percussion
* Jose Rossy - tubular bells
* Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings) - strings
* Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
* Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
* Jon Faddis - trumpet
* Ellen Seeling - trumpet
* Alex Foster - saxophone
* Jean Fineberg - saxophone
* Barry Rodgers - trombone
* Gene Orloff - concert master

Production

* Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
* Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
* Bob Clearmountain - sound engineer
* Burt Szerlip - engineer
* Jeff Hendrickson - engineer
* Ray Willard - engineer
* All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station in New York. Mastered at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.

US Singles

"Le Freak"

* "Le Freak" (7" Edit) - 3:30 /"Savoir Faire" - 4:57 (Atlantic 7" 3519, September 21 1978)

* "Le Freak" - 5:23 / "Savoir Faire" - 4:57 (Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 131, 1978)

* "Le Freak" - 5:23 / "You Can Get By" - 5:36 (Atlantic 12" DK 4620, 1978)

* "Le Freak" - 5:23 / "Savoir Faire" - 4:57 (Atlantic 12" DK 4700, 1978)

* "Le Freak" - 5:23 / "You Can Get By" - 5:36 (Atlantic Oldies promo 12" DSKO 178, 1979)

"I Want Your Love"

* "I Want Your Love" (7" Edit) - 3:28 / "(Funny) Bone" - 3:41 (Atlantic 7" 3557, January 29 1979)

* "I Want Your Love" - 6:53 / "(Funny) Bone" - 3:41 (Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 146, 1979)

* "I Want Your Love" - 6:53 / "(Funny) Bone" - 3:41 (Atlantic 12" DK 4712, 1979)