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Chaka Khan – Original Album Series / Warner Bros. Records 5x Audio CD 2009 Box Set / 8122 79836 0
UPC 081227983604
Five CD box set containing a quintet of original albums from the R&B vocalist: Chaka, Chaka Khan (Out-of-Print in the US), I Feel for You, Naughty (Out-of-print in the US) and What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (Out-of-Print in the US). Warner. 2010.
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan (/ˈʃɑːkəˈkɑːn/ SHAH-kə KAHN), is an American singer. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. With the band she recorded the notable hits "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Do You Love What You Feel" and the platinum-certified "Ain't Nobody". Her debut solo album featured the number-one R&B hit "I'm Every Woman" (which became a pop hit for Whitney Houston). Khan scored another R&B charts hit with "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" before becoming the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You". More of Khan's hits include "Through the Fire" and a 1986 collaboration with Steve Winwood that produced a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, "Higher Love".
Khan has won ten Grammy Awards. With Rufus, she achieved three gold singles, one platinum single, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with I Feel for You. She has also worked with Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Guru, Chicago, Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige and Ariana Grande. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance club artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Khan has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan,[7] the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus. In 2023, Khan was picked as an inductee in the Musical Excellence category.
Chaka Khan Illinois állam egyik katonai támaszpontján született 1953-ban, Yvette Marie Stevens néven. Chicago külvárosában nőtt fel, tizenegy éves korában már színpadon szerepelt, megalakította a Crystalettes nevű együttesét és klubokban, mulatókban próbálgatta tehetségét. Művésznevét is tizenéves korában vette fel.
Első jelentősebb sikereit a Rufus zenekarral aratta a hetvenes évek elején. Kiemelkedő sikereket is hoztak az együtt töltött évek, kitűnő közös dalaik közül a Once You Get Started, a Do You Lou Love What I Feel, és a Sweet Thing címűek listára is kerültek.
1978-tól szólóban is bebizonyította, hogy kivételes tehetség, de a világhírnevet Prince 1984-es szerzeménye, az I Feel For You hozta meg számára. A szerzemény Angliában első, Amerikában harmadik lett a slágerlistán. Ekkor kapta első Grammy-díját a legjobb rhythm and blues énekesnőként, majd főszerepet kapott Rick Wakeman Orwell művéből, az 1984-ből készült rockoperájában.
A legjobb énekesekkel és zenészekkel dolgozott együtt a továbbiakban is, például Ry Cooderrel, Dizzy Gillespie-vel, David Bowie-val, Stevie Winwooddal, Stevie Wonderral, Frank Zappával és B.B. Kinggel, a blues királyával. Sokat köszönhetett Quincy Jones zeneszerző-producernek is, akivel több éven át együttműködött. Egyik lemezén Miles Davis trombitajátéka is hallható.
Az ő életét is megkeserítette a drog, emellett egy időben torokbántalmai miatt is pihenőre kényszerült. A kilencvenes évek második felében ismét többet hallatott magáról, 1997-ben a legnagyobb énekesek társaságában felléphetett a londoni Wembleyben Elvis Presley halálának huszadik évfordulóján rendezett gálán.
Tracklist:
Chaka | |||
1-1 | I'm Every Woman | ||
1-2 | Love Has Fallen On Me | ||
1-3 | Roll Me Through The Rushes | ||
1-4 | Sleep On It | ||
1-5 | Life Is A Dance | ||
1-6 | We Got The Love | ||
1-7 | Some Love | ||
1-8 | A Woman In A Man's World | ||
1-9 | The Message In The Middle Of The Bottom | ||
1-10 | I Was Made To Love Him | ||
Naughty |
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2-1 | Clouds | ||
2-2 | Get Ready, Get Set | ||
2-3 | Move Me No Mountain | ||
2-4 | Nothing's Gonna Take You Away | ||
2-5 | So Naughty | ||
2-6 | Too Much Love | ||
2-7 | All Night's All Right | ||
2-8 | What You Did | ||
2-9 | Papillon (Aka Butterfly) | ||
2-10 | Our Love's In Danger | ||
What Cha' Gonna Do For Me |
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3-1 | We Can Work It Out | ||
3-2 | What Cha' Gonna Do For Me | ||
3-3 | I Know You, I Live You | ||
3-4 | Any Old Sunday | ||
3-5 | We Got Each Other | ||
3-6 | And The Melody Still Lingers On (Night In Tunisia) | ||
3-7 | Night Moods | ||
3-8 | Heed The Warning | ||
3-9 | Father He Said | ||
3-10 | Fate | ||
3-11 | I Know You, I Live You (Reprise) | ||
Chaka Khan |
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4-1 | Tearin' It Up | ||
4-2 | Slow Dancin' | ||
4-3 | Best In The West | ||
4-4 | Got To Be There | ||
4-5 | Be Bop Medley : Hot House/East Of Suez (Come On Sailor)/Epistrophy (I Wanna Play)/Yardbird Suite/Con Alma/Giant Steps | ||
4-6 | Twisted | ||
4-7 | So Not To Worry | ||
4-8 | Pass It On (A Sure Thing) (Pasa Lo Esta Seguro) | ||
I Feel For You |
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5-1 | This Is My Night | ||
5-2 | Stronger Than Before
Producer – Robbie Buchanan
Producer – Robbie Buchanan
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5-3 | My Love Is Alive
Producer – John Robie
Producer – John Robie
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5-4 | Eye To Eye
Producer – Russ Titelman
Producer – Russ Titelman
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5-5 | La Flamme | ||
5-6 | I Feel For You |
5-7 | Hold Her
Producer – Hawk, James Newton Howard
Producer – Hawk, James Newton Howard
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5-8 | Through The Fire
Producer – David Foster, Humberto Gatica
Producer – David Foster, Humberto Gatica
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5-9 | Caught In The Act
Producer – Joe Mardin
Producer – Joe Mardin
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5-10 | Chinatown |
- Photography By [Cover Images] – Getty Images
- Producer – Arif Mardin (tracks: 1-1 to 5-3, 5-5 to 5-7, 5-9, 5-10)
Released in a cardboard box containing the 5 discs in individual cardboard sleeves with miniature artwork.
No track durations on release.
Disc 1 - ℗ & © 1978 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Disc 2 - ℗ & © 1980 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Disc 3 - ℗ & © 1981 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Disc 4 - ℗ & © 1982 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Disc 5 - ℗ & © 1984 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Disc 5: Produced by Arif Mardin for Deniz Productions
This Compilation ℗ & © 2005 Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Manufactured in the E.U.
CD1
℗ & © 1978 Warner Bros. Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Manufactured in the E.U. (CD face)
℗ & © 1978 Warner Records Inc. (back of the mini sleeve)
CD2
℗&© 1980 Warner Records Inc. Manufactured for and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Made in EU. (CD face)
℗ & © 1980 Warner Records Inc. (back of the mini sleeve)
CD3
℗&© 1981 Warner Records Inc. Manufactured for and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Made in EU. (CD face)
℗ & © 1981 Warner Records Inc. (back of the mini sleeve)
CD4
℗&© 1982 Warner Records Inc. Manufactured for and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Made in EU. (CD face)
℗ & © 1982 Warner Records Inc. (back of the mini sleeve)
CD5
Executive producer for Deniz Productions
℗&© 1984 Warner Records Inc. Manufactured for and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Made in EU. (CD face)
℗ & © 1984 Warner Records Inc. (back of the mini sleeve)