Live at Celebrity Hall

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Live at Celebrity Hall
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Live album by
Rare Essence
Released1987
VenueCelebrity Hall,
Breeze's Metro Club
Genre
Length36:27
Label Sounds of the Capital
Producer Rare Essence
Rare Essence chronology
Live at Breeze's Metro Club
(1986)		Live at Celebrity Hall
(1987)		 Work the Walls
(1992)

Live at Celebrity Hall (also titled as Live at the Celebrity Hall and the Metro Club) is a live album recorded and released in 1987 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Rare Essence. [1] [2] [3] [4] The album was recorded live at the now defunct music venues Celebrity Hall (also referred to as "The Black Hole") and at Breeze's Metro Club, both located in Washington, D.C. This album follows their 1986 live album Live at Breeze's Metro Club and includes the singles "Still Gettin' Buzy", "Whip It", and a go-go rendition of Kool Moe Dee's song "Do You Know What Time It Is?". [1]

Contents

Track listing

Side A – Live at Celebrity Hall

  1. R.E. Herman 2x – 6:54
  2. Still Gettin' Buzy – 7:39
  3. Whip It – 7:06

Side B – Live at the Metro Club

  1. Uptown – 5:02
  2. Do You Know What Time It Is? (written by Moe Dewese) – 5:13
  3. Iko-Iko (written by Barbara Anne Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson, Sharon Jones) – 5:48

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop . Billboard Books. pp.  206, 223. ISBN   0-8230-7727-6.
  2. ↑ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2009). The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 221–224. ISBN   978-1-60473-241-2.
  3. ↑ "Live at the Celebrity Hall, Live at the Metro Club". Discogs . Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School". Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco: BackBeat Books. pp. 297–299. ISBN   0-87930-629-7.
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