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Go Go Swing Live

Go Go Swing Live
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Live album by Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers
Released 1986
Recorded 1986
Venue The Crystal Skate
Temple Hills, Maryland
Genre
Length 61:09
Label Future Sound Records
Producer Reo Edwards
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers chronology
Funk Express
(1980)
Go Go Swing Live
(1986)
Any Other Way to Go?
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
ARTISTdirect 4/5 stars
musicHound R&B (4/5)
Wilson & Alroy 3.5/5 stars

Go Go Swing Live is a live album recorded and released in 1986 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers. The album was recorded at the Crystal Skate (in Temple Hills, Maryland) and at the RSVP (a defunct nightclub in Washington, D.C.)

The album consists of go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat. The album is especially known for remakes of the calypso song "Run Joe", and the swing songs "Stormy Monday" and "It Don't Mean a Thing". The album was ranked #1 as the "Best Album Recorded in D.C." by DCist.


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