Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits
{{Infobox album
| name = Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits
| type = greatest
| artist = Chic
| cover = Chic-Greatest Hits.jpg
| alt =
| released = December 1979
| recorded = 1977–1979
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Disco|funk|R&B|jazz|samba}}
| length = 38:44
| label = Atlantic
| producer = {{hlist|Nile Rodgers|Bernard Edwards}}
| prev_title = Risqué
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Real People
| next_year = 1980
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |title=Greatest Hits Review by Jason Elias |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-mw0000837675 |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 5, 2024}}
| rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
| rev2score = A−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: C|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=C&bk=70|accessdate=February 23, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
}}
Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits, also known as The Best of Chic, is a greatest hits album by the American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1979. It includes the biggest hits from their first three albums: Chic (1977), C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979).
The seven-track album, which omits the 1979 hit single "My Forbidden Lover" and replaces it with "Chic Cheer" and also combines three 7-inch edits and one extended 12-inch mix with three album versions, was the only compilation to be released during the band's six years on Atlantic. It reached number 88 on the US charts and number 30 in the UK in early 1980. Non-US editions dropped "Chic Cheer" for "My Forbidden Lover". The compilation was the first time that the 12" mix of "Everybody Dance" was made generally available, having previously been issued only as a promotion.
Track listing
All tracks produced and written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, except "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" co-written by Kenny Lehman.
{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Album
| title1 = Le Freak
| note1 = 7" edit
| extra1 = C'est Chic
| length1 = 3:30
| title2 = I Want Your Love
| note2 = 7" edit
| extra2 = C'est Chic
| length2 = 3:28
| title3 = Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
| note3 = 7" edit
| extra3 = Chic
| length3 = 3:40
| title4 = Everybody Dance
| note4 = 12" mix
| extra4 = Chic
| length4 = 8:25}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side two: US Editions
| extra_column = Album
| title1 = Chic Cheer
| extra1 = C'est Chic
| length1 = 4:42
| title2 = Good Times
| note2 = 12" mix
| extra2 = Risqué
| length2 = 8:13
| title3 = My Feet Keep Dancing
| extra3 = Risqué
| length3 = 6:46}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side two: Non-US editions
| extra_column = Album
| title1 = My Forbidden Lover
| extra1 = Risqué
| length1 = 4:42
| title2 = Good Times
| note2 = 12" Mix
| extra2 = Risqué
| length2 = 8:13
| title3 = My Feet Keep Dancing
| extra3 = Risqué
| length3 = 6:46}}
Personnel
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
- Alfa Anderson – lead vocals]] (A1, A2, B2)
- Luci Martin – lead vocals (B2, B3)
- Norma Jean Wright – lead vocals (A4)
- Bernard Edwards – lead vocals (B3), bass guitar
- Nile Rodgers – guitar, vocals
- Tony Thompson – drums
- Fonzi Thornton – vocals
- Michelle Cobbs – vocals
- Ulland McCullough – vocals
- Luther Vandross – vocals
- David Lasley – vocals
- Robin Clark – vocals
- Diva Gray – lead vocals (A1)
- Sammy Figueroa – percussion
- Robert Sabino – keyboards, clavinet, acoustic piano and electric piano
- Andy Schwartz – keyboards, clavinet, acoustic and electric piano
- Raymond Jones – keyboards
- Robert Sabino – keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Tom Coppola – keyboards
- Jon Faddis – trumpet
- Ellen Seeling – trumpet
- Alex Foster – saxophone
- Jean Fineberg – saxophone
- Barry Rodgers – trombone
- Kenny Lehman – woodwinds
- George Young – flute, tenor saxophone
- Vito Rendace – flute, tenor saxophone
- David Friedman – orchestral bells, vibraphones
- Jose Rossy – tubular bells
- Gloria Augustini – harp
- Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings) – strings
- Karen Karlsrud (The Chic Strings) – strings
- Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) – strings
- Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) – strings
- Valerie Haywood (The Chic strings) – strings
- Gene Orloff – concertmaster
- Alfred Brown – strings contractor
{{div col end}}
=Production=
- Bernard Edwards – producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Nile Rodgers – producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Kenny Lehman – co-producer (track A4)
- Jackson Schwartz – engineer
- Jeff Hendrickson – engineer
- Jim Galante – engineer
- Peter Robbins – engineer
- Ray Willard – engineer
- Burt Szerlip – engineer
- Dennis King – mastering
- All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station in New York. Mastered at Atlantic Studios, N.Y.
Charts
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|+Chart performance for Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits ! scope="col"| Chart (1979–1980) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{album chart|Netherlands|47|artist=Chic|album=Les plus grands succès de Chic - Chic's Greatest Hits|rowheader=true|access-date=September 2, 2024}} |
| {{album chart|UK2|30|date=19800113|rowheader=true|access-date=September 2, 2024}} |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|88|artist=Chic|rowheader=true|access-date=September 2, 2024}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardRandBHipHop|44|artist=Chic|rowheader=true|access-date=September 2, 2024}} |
References
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Category:Chic (band) compilation albums
Category:Albums produced by Nile Rodgers
Category:Albums produced by Bernard Edwards