Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization: Boxset Vol. 1 / Savoir Faire available on October 23 2017 from Amazon for 24.08
Chic - Nile Rodgers presents: The Chic Organization, Boxset Vol. I / "Savoir Faire" (Music CD) available on December 28 2014 from Base for 22.69
EAN bar code 5052498278954 ξ1 registered October 23 2017
EAN bar code 5052498278954 ξ2 registered November 21 2014
EAN bar code 5052498278954 ξ3 registered September 27 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Pop Audio
Manufacturered by Warner Strategic Marketing
Product weight is 0.49 lbs.
Import four CD box set that gives the listener full access to Nile Rodgers' Chic Organization Ltd. Archives. The boxset includes Chic's best tracks, rare versions, outtakes, remixes, unreleased songs and all of Chic Organization Ltd's main productions including 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge, 'Upside Down' and 'I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross and many others. Rodgers, his musical cohort Bernard Edwards and Chic recorded eight albums and is one of the most sampled band in the world. The bass line from "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang comes from Chic's "Good Times", "Lady" by Modjo comes from "Soup for One", Notorious BIG sampled "I'm Coming Out", Will Smith rearranged "He's the Greatest Dance" by Sister Sledge. In addition, many artists were heavily influenced by Bernard Edwards' bassline in "Good Times" such as Queen with "Another One Bites the Dust". a few years after the dawn of Disco, Rodgers and Edwards disbanded the Chic Organization Ltd. #but they kept on playing and producing. Rhino Records. 2010.
This box set was done very well. First it gives a comprehensive overview of the Rodgers/Edwards penned songs. If you hadn't already, it makes you realize the amazing impact Rodgers/Edwards had on music history. Not only were they behind all the Chic songs, they also put Sister Sledge on the map, they wrote and produced Diana Ross' biggest selling solo album and they introduced Sheila to the world (other than France where she was already a star) with the unbelievabl..