The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge

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The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge
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ReleasedSep 27, 1999
Recorded1977–1979, 1985, 1993, 1999
Genre Disco, funk, R&B, jazz, samba
Label Rhino
Warner Music
Producer Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
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The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge is a compilation album of recordings by American R&B bands Chic and Sister Sledge, released by Rhino Records/Warner Music in 1999. An expanded two-disc edition of the compilation was released by Warner Music in 2005, under the title Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers unless otherwise noted.

  1. "We Are Family" (7" Edit) - 3:21
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. Original version appears on 1979 album We Are Family
  2. "Good Times" (7" Edit) - 3:38
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1979 album Risqué
  3. "Lost in Music" (7" Edit) - 3:21
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. Original version appears on 1979 album We Are Family
  4. "Le Freak" (7" Edit) - 3:32
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1978 album C'est Chic
  5. "He's the Greatest Dancer" - 6:10
  6. "I Want Your Love" (7" Edit) - 3:23
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1978 album C'est Chic
  7. "Everybody Dance" (7" Edit) - 4:09
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1977 album Chic
  8. "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (7" Edit) (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 3:40
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1977 album Chic
  9. "Thinking of You" - 4:27
  10. "Frankie" (Denny) - 3:52
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. From 1985 album When The Boys Meet The Girls
  11. "We Are Family" (Sure Is Pure Remix, Radio Edit) - 3:57
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. Original version appears on 1979 album We Are Family
  12. "Lost in Music" (Sure Is Pure Remix) - 5:02
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. Original version appears on 1979 album We Are Family
  13. "I Want Your Love" (Stonebridge Remix) - 8:43
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1978 album C'est Chic
  14. "Good Times" (A Touch of Jazz Remix) - 5:15
    • Performed by: Chic. Original version appears on 1979 album Risqué
  15. "He's the Greatest Dancer" (Brutal Bill Remix) - 5:29
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. Original version appears on 1979 album We Are Family
  16. "Thinking of You" (Ramp Remix) - 7:28
    • Performed by: Sister Sledge. Original version appears on 1979 album We Are Family

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