Good Times

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Good Times
Chic
publication 1979
length 8:13
Genre (s) Disco
Author (s) Nile Rodgers , Bernard Edwards
Label Atlantic Records

Good Times is a song by Chic . It can be assigned to the genre of disco , but also contains elements of funk . The last hit for Chic in 1979, Good Times became one of the most sampled songs in music history in the 1980s .

Authorship and Inclusion

The lyrics to Good Times were written by Nile Rodgers , using a few lines from the song Happy Days Are Here Again by Leo Reisman and his Orchestra. The concise bass line comes from Bernard Edwards . Both are listed as equal songwriters by Good Times for the purposes of copyright . The song was produced by Rodgers and Edwards together.

The following musicians were involved in the recordings for the album Risqué - which opens with Good Times : 

Good Times has been in the studio recorded Power Station (now the Avatar Studios) in New York; The sound engineer was Bob Clearmountain .

Publications

Good Times was first released on vinyl in 1979 by the Atlantic label : The song was released as a single , as a maxi single and on the album Risqué . In the following years, Good Times was re-released on numerous compilations , including on CD .

Quotes, samples and covers

The two best-known songs based on the Good Times bass line are Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang and Another One Bites the Dust by Queen . Other bands that Good Times quoted on this or a similar way were The Clash , Blondie and Daft Punk .

In addition, Good Times was sampled by numerous musicians, especially those from the hip-hop genre - these included:

Good Times has also been covered several times , with the most peculiar interpretation certainly being that of the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir. The Welsh male choir , made up of 60 older men, recorded the song to promote a festival that also included Chic. The music video became a minor internet phenomenon in 2013 .

Charts and reception

In the singles charts of Billboard ranked Good Times in August 1979 Place first

The music magazine Rolling Stone leads Good Times in its latest list of the 500 greatest songs of all time as number 229. In the book 1001 songs you should listen before life is over was Good Times included as essential.

Trivia

Nile Rodgers described the meaning of the song for the band as follows: " For us, Good Times was the high point of our musical creativity, that was when the chic formula really crystallized." And on the influence of Good Times on hip-hop, he said: “We broke it down to bass and drums. That was the foundation for the rappers, for the hip-hop movement - all rappers used Good Times for their songs. Good Times lives on and on. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Dimery (Ed.): 1001 Songs You Should Hear Before Life Is Over . Edition Olms, Zurich, 2011. p. 444
  2. ↑ a b www.whosampled.com: Good Times (sample list)
  3. ↑ a b c Chic: Risque (Liner Notes)
  4. ↑ www.discogs.com: Good Times (release details)
  5. ↑ a b c www.hr-online.de: Good Times (History of Development & Effectiveness) ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hr-online.de
  6. ↑ www.billboard.com: Good Times (chart placement)
  7. ↑ www.rollingstone.com: Good Times (list placement)