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"Good Times" is a disco soul song by American R&B band Chic, released in June 1979 by Atlantic Records as the first single from their third album, Risqué (1979). It ranks 68th on Rolling Stone ' s list of the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ", [ 1 ] and has become one of the most sampled songs in music history, most notably in hip hop music .
Aretha Franklin covered the song for her 1967 album I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. [9] It was described by Rolling Stone as the album's "party starter" [9] and by AllMusic as "on par with the original recording". [10] The Grateful Dead would sometimes open their live shows with the song as well.
The song's name is an acronym and comes from the lyrics in its chorus, in which a woman is described as "D.I.S.C.O.". In other words, each letter of the word standing for a certain quality, except "O", which simply leads to singing "oh-oh-oh" ("She is D, delirious / She is I, incredible / She is S, superficial / She is C, complicated / She is ...
Kris Kristofferson, who has died aged 88, was among the most prolific artists of his generation. In a career spanning six decades, he released 18 studio albums along with compilation records, live ...
Chic - Good Times; The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) Sister Sledge - We Are Family; The Trammps - Disco Inferno; Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland; Donna Summer - I Feel Love; Diana Ross - Upside Down; Village People - Y.M.C.A. Kool & the Gang - Celebration; Boney M. - Rasputin; Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive; ABBA ...
'Good Times', the new tune from London grime crew Roll Deep, falls firmly into that last category. The urban clubby production owes a debt to Calvin Harris 's recent Dizzee Rascal collaborations, the lyrics mine much the same party-on vibe as [the] Black Eyed Peas ' ' I Gotta Feeling ', and there are even a few GaGa-style "oh-oh-oh-oh"s chucked ...
Long live the 'Queen.' The said that when analyzed all the "feel-good" songs had were at least 10 BPM faster than the average pop song and most of them were written in a major key.
"Good Times" (aka "Gonna Have a Good Time") is a song by the Australian rock band the Easybeats, written by George Young and Harry Vanda. It was released in June 1968 on their album Vigil, and as a single in July 1968 through Parlophone. It features guest vocals by Steve Marriott of Small Faces, and piano by Nicky Hopkins. The original ...