| Devil's Gun | ||||
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| Released | 1977 | |||
| Recorded | PAC 3 Recording Company (Dearborn, Michigan) Hollywood Sound Recorders (Hollywood, California) | |||
| Genre | Soul, disco | |||
| Label | Westbound | |||
| Producer | Mike Theodore, Dennis Coffey | |||
| C. J. & Company chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Devil's Gun | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Devil's Gun is the debut studio album recorded by American disco group C. J. & Company, released in 1977 on the Westbound label.
The album peaked at No. 12 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 60 on the Billboard 200. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "We Got Our Own Thing", which charted at No. 93 on the Hot Soul Singles chart . Both tracks, along with the track "Sure Can't Go to the Moon", peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart.
All tracks are written by Connie Durden, Charles Clark, Cornelius Brown, Jr., Joni Tolbert, Mike Theodore, Curtis Durden, Dennis Coffey, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Devil's Gun" | Barry Green, Ron Roker, Gerry Shury | 7:14 |
| 2. | "We Got Our Own Thing" | 9:30 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 3. | "Free to Be Me" | 5:03 |
| 4. | "Get a Groove in Order to Move" | 5:11 |
| 5. | "Sure Can't Go to the Moon" | 7:30 |
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| Chart (1977) | Peak [2] |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 60 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 12 |
| Year | Single | Peaks | ||
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| US [2] | US R&B [2] | US Dan [2] | ||
| 1977 | "Devil's Gun" | 36 | 2 | 1 |
| "We Got Our Own Thing" | — | 93 | ||
| "Sure Can't Go to the Moon" | — | — | ||
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