Put Your Hands Up!

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Put Your Hands Up!
PutYourHandsUp album.png
Live album by
Chuck Brown
ReleasedAugust 20, 2002
Venue The 9:30 Club
Washington, D.C.
Genre
Length1:57:34
Label
  • Raw Venture
  • Liaison
Producer
  • Tom Goldfogle (exec)
  • Becky Marcus
Chuck Brown chronology
Your Game...Live at the 9:30 Club
(2001)		Put Your Hands Up!
(2002)		 Best of Chuck Brown
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
ARTISTdirect Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [3]

Put Your Hands Up! (also titled as Put Your Hands Up! The Tribute Concert to Chuck Brown, named by Jahi Banks through a local contest held by TMOTTGOGO. ) is a double-live-tribute album released on August 20, 2002, by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go musician Chuck Brown. The album was recorded live at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and is a continuation of the 2001 album Your Game...Live at the 9:30 Club . The live performances was a collaboration between Chuck Brown and some of the musicians that were influenced by his works. The album consists of go-go renditions of classic neo soul, go-go, hip hop, and blues songs.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleContributing artist(s)Length
1."Let the Party Begin" (Chuck Brown) Experience Unlimited 3:49
2."I Want You Back" (Berry Gordy/Alphonso Mizell/Freddie Perren/Deke Richards)Experience Unlimited and Maiesha3:53
3."Say Hey" (Gregory "Sugar Bear" Elliott)Experience Unlimited0:46
4."E.U. Freeze" (Gregory "Sugar Bear" Elliott)Experience Unlimited4:49
5."Dog Star" (George Clinton)Experience Unlimited1:59
6."Gimmie Dat Beat"Experience Unlimited1:32
7."Let's Freak-A-Deek"Experience Unlimited4:22
8."If You Like Go-Go Music"Experience Unlimited3:22
9."Da Butt" (Marcus Miller/Mark Stevens)Experience Unlimited4:13
10."Come Back in One Piece" (Stephen Garrett/Earl Simmons/Irving Lorenzo/Rob Meys/George Clinton/William Collins) BackYard Band 4:20
11."Wind Me Up G"BackYard Band5:33
12."Thong Song" (Mark Andrews/Tim Kelley/Bob Robinson/Eric Frankenberg/David Askew/Desmond Child/Robi Rosa)BackYard Band3:17
13."Skillet"BackYard Band6:29
14."Ready for Love" (Blue Miller)911 Band2:27
15."Time to Party" (Donnell Floyd)911 Band3:13
16."911"911 Band4:54
17."Brown & White"911 Band4:31
18."Uh Oh/You Don't Know Me"911 Band4:59
Disc 2
No.TitleContributing artist(s)Length
1."Mister Magic" (Ralph MacDonald/William Salter)Chuck Brown7:34
2."LaDiDaDi" (Doug E. Fresh/Slick Rick)Chuck Brown2:14
3."Get Your Hands Up!"Chuck Brown0:37
4."Country Boy" (Muddy Waters)Chuck Brown6:16
5."Family Affair" (Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart)Chuck Brown5:57
6."Are You Ready for a Little Benny?" Little Benny 3:07
7."Back Up Against the Wall" (Michael Hughes) Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson 3:09
8."Keepin' it Gangsta" Big G 2:52
9."Get Ur Freak On" (Melissa Elliott/Tim Mosley)Little Benny2:51
10."It Don't Mean a Thing / Midnight Sun / Moody's Mood for Love / Woody Woodpecker theme" (Sonny Burke/Duke Ellington/Lionel Hampton/James Moody)Chuck Brown11:23
Total length:1:57:34

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Kristel, Todd. Chuck Brown: Put Your Hands Up! > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews". ARTISTdirect . Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Review: Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers [extended]". Robert Christgau . Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Put Your Hands Up!: Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 12 January 2017.
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