C. J. & Company
{{Short description|Disco group from Detroit, Michigan}}
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| current_members = Curtis "CJ" Durden
Connie Durden
Joni Tolbert
Charles Clark
Cornelius Brown
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| years_active = 1977–1979{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cj-co-mn0000538089/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=2011-07-25|title=Biography|first=Alex|last=Henderson}}
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C.J. & Company (also C.J. & Co. or C.C. & Co.) was a disco group from Detroit, Michigan. They were the partnership of producers Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore. Their highest charting single in the US was "Devil's Gun", which reached #36 on the Billboard pop chart, spending 29 weeks on the HOT 100. It wound up being the #100 song of the year on the Billboard's year end charts, (though only peaking at #36), and #2 on the R&B chart in 1977.{{cite book|title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|authorlink=Joel Whitburn|year=2004 |publisher=Record Research|page=120}} It also peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart.{{cite book| first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|edition=19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited|location=London|isbn=1-904994-10-5|page=89}} That song, along with "We Got Our Own Thing" (later sampled by Heavy D and the Boyz) and "Sure Can't Go to the Moon," hit #1 for five weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.{{cite book|title=Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|authorlink=Joel Whitburn|year=2004|publisher=Record Research|page=356}}
They released two full-length LPs, Devil's Gun (1977) and Deadeye Dick (1978) both for Westbound Records.
In 1998 a compilation CD was released with full length selected tracks from both LPs.
"Devil's Gun" was the first record played at the opening of Studio 54 by DJ Richie Kaczor.{{cite web|url=http://www.disco-disco.com/clubs/studio54.shtml|title=Disco-Disco: A history of Studio 54|website=Disco-Disco.com}}
Discography
=Studio albums=
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Title ! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions ! rowspan="2"| Record label |
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| rowspan="1"| 1977
| align="left"| Devil's Gun | 60 | 12 | 67 | rowspan="2"| Westbound |
| rowspan="1"| 1978
| align="left"| Deadeye Dick | — | — | — |
| colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
=Compilation albums=
- USA Disco (1998, Westbound)
=Singles=
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Title ! colspan="7"| Peak chart positions |
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! width="35"| US ! width="35"| US ! width="35"| US ! width="35"| CAN ! width="35"| NLD ! width="35"| SWE ! width="35"| UK |
| rowspan="1"| 1975
| align="left"| "Day Dreamer" {{ref label|Note1|A|A}} | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| rowspan="3"| 1977
| align="left"| "Devil's Gun" | 36 | 2 | rowspan="3"| 1 | 55 | 17 | 19 | 43 |
| align="left"| "We Got Our Own Thing"
| — | 93 | — | — | — | — |
| align="left"| "Sure Can't Go to the Moon"
| — | — | — | — | — | — |
| rowspan="2"| 1978
| align="left"| "Big City Sidewalk" | 106 | — | rowspan="2"| 18 | — | — | — | — |
| align="left"| "Deadeye Dick"
| — | — | — | — | — | — |
| colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
- {{note label|Note1|A|A}}Single credited to C. J. & Company
See also
References
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External links
- {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000538089}}
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