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In the midst of this tension, one of the genre\u2019s most innovative groups, CHIC, released \u201cGood Times\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; an exuberantly joyful song which would prove that dance music could be creative, complex, brilliantly produced, and incredibly funky.\u00a0 While the song may not have been able to save disco, it undeniably shaped the future of popular music for the next decade and beyond.\u00a0 Creative artists continually looked to CHIC\u2019s track for inspiration, influencing the development of New Wave, and Hip Hop, and leading it to become one of the most sampled, inspiring, and important tracks in popular music history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHIC founders Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards first met as teenagers in 1970. Both had come from the world of jazz but from very early on, they were interested in bringing diverse and eclectic sounds together. \u00a0 Rodgers explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy training is all classical and very heavy jazz. My teacher learned with Wes Montgomery. In jazz, you can play whole solos all in chords with pretty harmonic movement, just as a piano player would. You get that from McCoy Tyner, you hear that there. I learned a complete harmonic style.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1972, they formed a jazz-rock fusion group called the Big Apple Band. They quickly became a dance music focused group, bringing in drummer Tony Thompson, as well as vocalists Norma Jean Wright and Alfa Anderson.\u00a0 By 1977 they were in the studio, under the new name of CHIC, recording their demo single \u201cDance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)\u201d\u00a0 which was engineered by a young Bob Clearmountain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their self-titled debut album was released under Atlantic records in 1977. In late 1978, they released their second album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C\u2019est Chic <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which contained the hit single \u201cLe Freak\u201d &#8211; While their previous two singles had hit number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart, \u201cLe Freak\u201d was CHIC\u2019s first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, in addition to being a huge international hit for the band.\u00a0 While Le Freak is certainly one of the band\u2019s most important tracks, it is not the only one. In 1979, they released their second number one hit &#8211; a song which would inspire the entire popular music landscape of the eighties&#8230;\u201cGood Times\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the moment it begins, \u201cGood Times\u201d captures audiences with its infectious groove combined with a joyous vocal refrain. Rodgers has credited Kool and the Gang\u2019s \u201cHollywood Swinging\u201d as the inspiration for the song.\u00a0 While the songs are certainly different, they share a characteristic exuberance, as well as a bassline centered around a three-pulse motive.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGood Times\u201d opens with a shimmering keyboard glissando, recorded in an unorthodox setting. Rodgers explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a gigantic glissando starting at the lower portion of the keyboard and going as far as you can in that couple of seconds. And then we have the women\u2019s bathroom at the Power Station, our famous studio that we recorded in, as the big echo chamber. We fed the signal into the ladies bathroom. It was very reflective in there. It\u2019s all tiles and stuff like that, so it makes this swirly sound that\u2019s bouncing back and forth. So it\u2019s a cool thing. It\u2019s a subtle technique that winds up becoming this grand, big statement.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That grand statement, performed by Raymond Jones on a Fender Rhodes keyboard, provides the joyous opening for the song&#8217;s optimistic and upbeat lyrics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cGood Times\u201d\u00a0 is centered around a\u00a0 classic, dance party refrain sung by Fonzi <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thornton, Alf Anderson and Michelle Cobbs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good times<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the good times<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave your cares behind<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upward melody of the vocal refrain singing \u201cGood Times\u201d heightens the song\u2019s exuberant tone.\u00a0 The verse lyrics break down the context of the joy a little more, indicating that these good times are much-needed relief after times of struggle.\u00a0 The band even includes lyrics referencing depression era songs like Milton Agers\u2019 \u201cHappy Days are Here Again.\u201d Rodgers explained that CHIC songs tend to have hidden meanings like this, and with Good Times, they were trying to envision a better world: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen Chic started we were in the midst of the greatest financial recessions. We had gas rationing lines in America. And people said to us, \u2018How the hell could you write such happy songs when the world is so miserable?\u2019 But you have to write about the world that you want to see. The path I\u2019m trying to carve out for Chic is, \u2018Always remember the fun,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes an artist\u2019s greatest responsibility is not to reflect the world as it is, but to dream about the world you want to have.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certainly the song&#8217;s iconic groove also equally contributes to the joyous experience of listening to \u201cGood Times.\u201d\u00a0 Breaking it down, we find Tony Thompson\u2019s drums in tight alignment with the song\u2019s funky pulse.\u00a0 Nile Rodgers\u2019 guitar part contiubutes as much to the rhythm of the song as the drums or the bass.\u00a0 In 1991, Edwards told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bass Player<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> magazine: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two of us I consider a rhythm section, even without drums, because we keep so much rhythm going on\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, of course, there\u2019s Edwards<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216; foundational <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bassline. In 2005, Rodgers explained that the bassline came from an instantaneous response to long-standing desire to create a song with a walking bassline. The story goes that Bernard stumbled into the studio late, after a night out on the town with Queen bassist John Deacon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Clearmountain at the board, Rodgers, Thompson and one of the keyboard players were already going through the track, when Edwards joined in on bass. Bernard explained&#8230;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI started screaming over the drums: \u2018Walk!\u2019 \u2026..\u2018What?\u2019 I shouted, \u2018Walk,walk!\u2019\u201d&#8230;So then Bernard, well, he started to walk.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this was no regular walking bass line, Bernards broke into a funky, yet singable bass melody which would inspire generations of musicians to follow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fonzo Thornton (who provided many of the male vocal parts for CHIC records during this period) recalled being completely in awe of Bernards\u2019 groove: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNile told me he had a new record he wanted me to sing on&#8230; When I heard Bernard\u2019s bassline \u2014 it was almost scary, because it was so new. I said, \u2018This is something special.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While CHIC also credit Kool and the Gang for inspiration, Bernard certainly made that three-pulse beginning their own, and its CHIC\u2019s recording that inspired their immediate contemporaries like Queen in \u201cAnother One Bites the Dust,\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blondie\u2019s \u201cRapture,\u201d as well as the nascent hip-hop scene. When\u00a0 Sugar Hill Records\u2019 \u201cRapper\u2019s Delight\u201d came out with an almost identical bassline (there\u2019s about an eighth note difference from CHIC\u2019s original) and a scratched sample of their string section recording, Rodgers and Edwards were awarded co-writing credit on their track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGood Times\u201d was recorded at the Power Station Studios in Manhattan &#8211; a new studio which had just opened its doors a year earlier in 1977.\u00a0 \u201cGood Times\u201d and their entire third album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Risqu\u00e9 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was produced by Bernard and Edwards with a young Bob Clearmountain as the engineer.\u00a0 It was mastered at Atlantic Studios in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The single \u201cGood Times\u201d was released on June 4, 1979 &#8211; almost two months before the release of their third album. 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