''Bustin' Loose'' is a

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released in 1979 by the

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–based go-go band

Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers Charles Louis Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012) was an American guitarist, bandleader, and singer known as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed around the Washington, ...

. The album includes the charting single and one of the all-time classic go-go songs " Bustin' Loose", along with a remake of the classic

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ballad " Never Give You Up" from the 1968 album '' The Ice Man Cometh''. ''Bustin' Loose'' became Brown's first album to chart on the ''Billboard'' 200, where it peaked at number 31. On August 10, 1979, ''Bustin' Loose'' was

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gold by the

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, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the

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. The single " Bustin' Loose" was also certified gold by the RIAA on March 14, 1979.

Track listing

Personnel

* Chuck Brown –

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* Jerry Wilder –

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, backing vocals * Gregory Gerran –

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...

s, percussion * Ricky Wellman –

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* Leroy Fleming –

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, flute,

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, backing vocals * Skip Fennell – keyboards * Curtis Johnson – organ * John Buchanan – keyboards, trombone, backing vocals * Donald Tillery – trumpet, tambourine, backing vocals *Leron Young – lead guitar on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be Love" *Don Renaldo – strings on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be Love" * Lincoln Ross – trombone on "Bustin' Loose" ;Technical *Logan H. Westbrooks - executive producer *Carl Paruolo - engineer

References

External links

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