| C.J. & Company | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Detroit, USA |
| Genres | Disco, R&B |
| Years active | 1977–1979 |
| Members | Curtis "CJ" Durden Connie Durden Joni Tolbert Charles Clark Cornelius Brown |
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. It also peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart. 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.
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.
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Record label | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US |
US R&B |
CAN | ||||||||||||
| 1977 | Devil's Gun | 60 | 12 | 67 | Westbound | |||||||||
| 1978 | Deadeye Dick | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Compilation albums
- USA Disco (1998, Westbound)
Singles
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US |
US R&B |
US Dan |
CAN |
NLD |
SWE |
UK | ||||||||
| 1975 | "Day Dreamer" | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1977 | "Devil's Gun" | 36 | 2 | 1 | 55 | 17 | 19 | 43 | ||||||
| "We Got Our Own Thing" | — | 93 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "Sure Can't Go to the Moon" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1978 | "Big City Sidewalk" | 106 | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Deadeye Dick" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
See also
- List of Billboard number-one dance club songs
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart
References
- Henderson, Alex. "Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 120.
- Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 89. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 356.
- "Disco-Disco: A history of Studio 54". Disco-Disco.com.
- ^ "US Charts > C. J. & Company". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ^ "CAN Charts Search > C. J. & Company". RPM. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- "NLD Charts > C. J. & Company". MegaCharts. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- "SWE Charts > C. J. & Company". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
- "UK Charts > C. J. & Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
External links
 | This article on a United States band or other musical ensemble is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |