Bustin' Loose (Chuck Brown album)

Bustin' Loose is a studio album released in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.^[1][6][7] The album includes the charting single and one of the all-time classic go-go songs "Bustin' Loose",^[8] along with a remake of the classic Jerry Butler's soul ballad "Never Give You Up" from the 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh.^[1]

Released1979

StudiosSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Genres

• Go-go
• soul
• jazz-funk

Length39:06^[1]

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Bustin' Loose
Studio album by Chuck Brown
Released	1979
Studios	Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genres	Go-go soul jazz-funk
Length	39:06[1]
Labels	Source, MCA
Producers	James Purdie Logan H. Westbrooks
Chuck Brown chronology
Salt of the Earth (1974) Bustin' Loose (1979) Funk Express (1980)
Singles from Winner Takes It All
"Bustin' Loose" Released: October 1978 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Released: 1979 "Game Seven" Released: April 1979

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Artistdirect	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[3]
MusicHound R&B	[4]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul	[5]

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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 certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.^[9] The single "Bustin' Loose" was also certified gold by the RIAA on March 14, 1979.^[9]