Good Times (Chic song)

1979

Good Times is a song by Chic. He is assigned to the genre of disco, but also contains elements of funk. In 1979, the last hit for Chic, Good Times was in the 80s to one of the most sampled songs in music history.

Authorship and publications

The text of Good Times wrote Nile Rodgers, where he took a few lines from the song Happy Days Are Here Again by Leo Reisman and his Orchestra. The distinctive bass line played Bernard Edwards a. The song by Rodgers and Edwards was co- produced. Both are out for the purposes of copyright as equal songwriter of Good Times.

Good Times was first published by the Atlantic label on vinyl in 1979: 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, also on CD.

Quotes, samples and cover versions

The two known songs that are based on the bass line of Good Times are Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang and Another One Bites the Dust by Queen. Other bands that cited Goodtimes on this or a similar manner, were The Clash, Blondie and Daft Punk.

In addition, Good Times, was sampled by numerous musicians, especially from the genre of hip-hop - this included, among other things:

Good Times has also covered MORE times, with the most peculiar interpretation is certainly that of the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir. The Welsh Male Choir, consisting of 60 older men, took the song to promote a festival which also Chic occurred. The music video was promoted in 2013 to a small Internet phenomenon; Nile Rodgers announced via Facebook that he liked the version of Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir of Good Times.

Reception

In the singles charts of Billboard Good Times took place in August 1979 1

The music magazine Rolling Stone performs Good Times In its latest list of the 500 best songs of all times as number 229 in the book 1001 songs that you should hear before life is over Good Times was accepted as essential.

Nile Rodgers described the meaning of the song for the band said: " Good Times was for us the highlight of our musical work, as the Chic - formula crystallized so right out. " And the impact of Good Times on the hip-hop he said: "We have broken it down on bass and drums. That was the basis for the rapper for the hip- hop movement - all the rappers used Good Times for their songs. Good Times lives on and on. "

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