Take It Off (album)

Take It Off is the fifth studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1981. It includes the single "Stage Fright", which reached #35 on the US R&B chart, but was the first Chic single failing to enter the US Pop charts, and this album only proved to be moderately successful as well, stalling at #124 on the US albums chart and #36 on the R&B chart.

Take It Off was one of three albums written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in 1981, the other two being Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry's debut solo album Koo Koo and Johnny Mathis' I Love My Lady, which remains unreleased.

Take It Off was transferred to CD and re-released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1991. It was digitally remastered and reissued by Wounded Bird Records in 2006.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.

Side A

"Stage Fright" - 3:55 Listen
"Burn Hard" - 5:12
"So Fine" - 4:10
"Flash Back" - 4:28
"Telling Lies" - 2:28

Side B

"Your Love Is Cancelled" - 4:12
"Would You Be My Baby" - 3:34
"Take It Off" - 5:12
"Just Out of Reach" - 3:45 Listen
"Baby Doll" - 3:10

Personnel

Luci Martin - Lead vocals (A1, A2, A5, B3)
Alfa Anderson - Lead vocals (B2, B4)
Bernard Edwards - Lead vocals (A4, B3, B4), bass guitar
Nile Rodgers - Lead vocals (B1), guitar
Tony Thompson - drums
Fonzi Thornton - vocals
Jocelyn Brown - vocals
Michelle Cobbs - vocals
Raymond Jones - keyboards
Rob Sabino - keyboards
Sammy Figueroa - percussion
Manolo Badrena - percussion
Roger Squitero - percussion
Lenny Pickett - saxophone
Michael Brecker - saxophone
Ronnie Cuber - saxophone
Vinny Della Rocca - saxophone
Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ray Maldonado - trumpet, flugelhorn

Production

Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
Bill Scheniman - sound engineer
Jason Corsaro - sound engineer
Dennis King - mastering
Sandi Young - art direction
Tony Wright - cover art
Recorded and mixed at Power Station, NYC.
Mastered at Atlantic Studios, NYC.

Chic

Bernard Edwards Nile Rodgers Tony Thompson Nathaniel S. Hardy, Jr. Omar Hakim Robert Sabino Sylver Logan Sharp Luther Vandross Norma Jean Wright

Studio albums	Chic (1977) C'est Chic (1978) Risqué (1979) Real People (1980) Take It Off (1981) Soup For One (1982) Tongue in Chic (1982) Believer (1983) Chic-ism (1992)

Live albums	Live at the Budokan (1999) A Night in Amsterdam (2006)

Produced by Chic	Norma Jean Wright: Norma Jean (1978) Sister Sledge: We Are Family (1979) Sheila and B. Devotion: King of the World (1980) Sister Sledge: Love Somebody Today (1980) Diana Ross: diana (1980) Debbie Harry: KooKoo (1981) Johnny Mathis: I Love My Lady (1981, unreleased)

Main compilations	Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979) Freak Out: The Greatest Hits of Chic and Sister Sledge (1988) Megachic: Best of Chic (1990) Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic (1991) The Best of Chic, Volume 2 (1992) Everybody Dance (1995) Dance, Dance, Dance & Other Hits (1997) The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge (1999) The Very Best of Chic (2000) Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes (Chic & Sister Sledge) (2005) The Definitive Groove Collection (2006) Up All Night (2013)

Notable singles	"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" "Everybody Dance" "Le Freak" "I Want Your Love" "Good Times" "My Forbidden Lover" "My Feet Keep Dancing" "Rebels Are We" "Real People" "Stage Fright" "Soup for One" "Hangin'" "Chic Mystique" "I'll Be There"

Related articles	Discography The Sugarhill Gang "Rapper's Delight" "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)"

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