The Best of Chuck Brown

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Total Tracks: 17   Total Length: 95:17

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Jeff Chang

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10.04.07
Chuck Brown, The Best of Chuck Brown
2005 | Label: Raw Venture Records & Tapes, Inc. / Iris

The songs that established go-go

His first band, Los Latinos, was sadly never recorded. But this greatest hits set, beginning with the work with his Soul Searchers band, captures the songs that established go-go. "Bustin 'Loose" — also available on eMusic as part of the similarly titled 1979 Sussex album or, uh, on Nelly's "Hot in Herre" — was go-go's first big hit. Then "We Need Some Money" brought the big labels to town. After the interest died down, he kept generations of Chocolate City fans moving with go-go-fied versions of favorite songs like Belafonte's "Day-O," the jazz standard "Misty" and current hits like R. Kelly's "Fiesta."

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