Once You Get Started

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"Once You Get Started"
Single by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
from the album Rufusized
B-side "Rufusized"
ReleasedFebruary 1975
Recorded1974
Genre
Length3:27 (single version)
4:29 (album version)
Label ABC
Songwriter(s) Gavin Christopher
Producer(s) Bob Monaco; Rufus
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan singles chronology
"You Got the Love"
(1974)
"Once You Get Started"
(1975)
"Please Pardon Me (You Remind Me of a Friend)"
(1975)

"Once You Get Started" is a horn-driven funk number written by musician Gavin Christopher, and recorded and released by the band Rufus featuring Chaka Khan in late 1974. The song is led mostly by Khan, though fellow group member Tony Maiden contributed lead vocals for the song's second verse. It helped to make their third album Rufusized go platinum. "Once You Get Started", peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, giving the group their second top ten single and third top forty single overall. The song also hit number-four on the Hot Soul Singles chart [3] as well as number six on the Record World, Disco File Top 20 chart. [4]

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Bobby Byrd's wife now widow Vicki Anderson previously recorded a version of this song with Christopher singing background vocals released June 1974.

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References

  1. 1 2 Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (2000). Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70s. St. Martin's Press. p. 2. ISBN   978-0-312-19821-3.
  2. Echols, Alice (March 29, 2010). "I Hear a Symphony: Black Masculinity and the Disco Turn". Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 15. ISBN   978-0-393-06675-3.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 505.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 223.