C.J._&_Company

C. J. & Company

C. J. & Company

Disco group from Detroit, Michigan

C.J. & Company (also C.J. & Co. or C.C. & Co.) was a disco group from Detroit, Michigan. They were the partnership of producers Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore. Their highest charting single in the US was "Devil's Gun", which reached #36 on the Billboard pop chart, spending 29 weeks on the HOT 100. It wound up being the #100 song of the year on the Billboard's year end charts, (though only peaking at #36), and #2 on the R&B chart in 1977.[2] It also peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart.[3] That song, along with "We Got Our Own Thing" (later sampled by Heavy D and the Boyz) and "Sure Can't Go to the Moon," hit #1 for five weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.[4]

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They released two full-length LPs, Devil's Gun (1977) and Deadeye Dick (1978) both for Westbound Records. In 1998 a compilation CD was released with full length selected tracks from both LPs.

"Devil's Gun" was the first record played at the opening of Studio 54 by DJ Richie Kaczor.[5]

Discography

Studio albums

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Compilation albums

Singles

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  • A Single credited to C. J. & Company

See also

References

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    Henderson, Alex. "Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
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    Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 120.
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    Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 89. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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    Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 356.
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    "Disco-Disco: A history of Studio 54". Disco-Disco.com.
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    "US Charts > C. J. & Company". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
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    "CAN Charts Search > C. J. & Company". RPM. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
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    "UK Charts > C. J. & Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 22, 2016.


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