Any Other Way to Go?

Any Other Way To Go?
Any Other Way To Go?
Live album by Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers
Released	1987
Venues	The Crystal Skate; Temple Hills, Maryland
Studio	Sheffield Studio
Genres	Go-go; jazz-funk;
Length	73:17
Label	Rhythm Attack Productions
Producers	Reo Edwards; Stephen Meyner;
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers chronology

Any Other Way To Go? (also titled as Live at Crystal Skates) is a live album released in 1987 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.^[5]^[6] The album was recorded live at the Crystal Skate in Temple Hills, Maryland. The album consists go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat.

Released1987

VenuesThe Crystal Skate
Temple Hills, Maryland

StudioSheffield Studio

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The album is especially known for go-go rendition of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's hip-hop song "The Message", and the go-go songs "Be Bumpin' Fresh" and "Go-Go Drug Free" (which featured a cameo rap from the former Mayor of the District of Columbia Marion Barry).^[5]^[7]

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	3:37
2.	"Midnight Sun"	Sonny Burke Lionel Hampton Johnny Mercer	3:25
3.	"Moody's Mood"	Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh James Moody	5:07
4.	"Woody Woodpecker"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	4:46
5.	"Here We Go Again"	Chuck Brown	5:14
6.	"Harlem Nocturne"	Earle H. Hagen	5:35
7.	"The Message"	Edward G. Fletcher Melle Mel Clifton "Jiggs" Chase Sylvia Robinson	4:50
8.	"Run Joe"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	8:11
9.	"Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	5:46
10.	"Family Affair"	Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart	7:25
11.	"Do That Stuff"	Chuck Brown	3:51
12.	"Go-Go Drug Free"	Chuck Brown	7:01
13.	"Be Bumpin' Fresh"	Chuck Brown	8:29
Total length:			1:13:17

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