Sister Sledge - We Are Family
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Artist: Sister SledgeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-11
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- He's the Greatest Dancer
- Lost in Music
- Somebody Loves Me
- Thinking of You
- We Are Family
- Easier to Love
- You're a Friend to Me
- One More Time
- We Are Family [Sure Is Pure Remix][*]
- We Are Family [Steve Anderson DMC Remix][*]
- Lost in Music [Sure Is Pure Remix][*]
- Lost in Music [1984 Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers Remix][*]
Music reviews of We Are Family
Music Review: A Little Too Laid Back For My Tastes
Rating: 3 Stars
(Partial Lyrics, We Are Family, Copyright 1979, Sister Sledge)
We are family/I got all my sisters with me/We are family/Get up everybody and sing...
We are family/I got all my sisters with me/We are family/Get up everybody and sing...
If you were alive and into the disco scene in the late 70's and early 80's (and who wasn't), then you'll recognize those words. Who could forget the words to this mega-hit Sister Sledge anthem that celebrated and celebrates unity and sisterhood. With its heavy bass rifts and the scratchy but powerful voice of lead singer Kathy Sledge, We Are Family from the groups self titled album, "We Are Family" is to date the sisters biggest hit from an album that produced exactly two (track No. 1 He's the Greatest Dancer is the other)!
The Philadelphia born and bred sisters of Sister Sledge--Kathy, Debbie, Kim, and Joni (almost from the beginning I was in love with them all; the cover of the album alone is enough to make me wish I could...!), had actually been laboring in virtual obscurity on the Atlantic Records label, managing only minimal success from 1975 -1977. But in 1978 they were teamed up with Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards of Chic fame, and "We Are Family" the album was the result. Edwards and Rogers, both front men for "Chic" (remember them?) had written and produced all of that groups hits, and were brought on to write and produce this album for the label and finally get the sisters on the charts for more than a month.
The album--We Are Family--was released in 1979 with the single He's The Greatest Dancer becoming the first hit form what proved to be the groups biggest chart-maker. The track was produced in the classic Chic wrapper, with heavy bass riffs provided by Bernard Edwards and funky guitar licks by Nile Rogers; the tempo was of course all disco. The song was artistically vague and uninspired by today's standards, but then again wasn't most disco music?
In sharp contrast the title cut, track No. 5, We Are Family was---and is--fun to listen to and had the stamp of a classic from the day it was released. With its slow infectious beat and ever present, but understated bass riffs, the song begs to be danced to, and invites you to sing along. But not just you, everyone in the room is induced to get up and dance and sing! I have been in rooms that were dead, but as soon as We Are Family begins playing the dance floor became crowded with finger snapping, hand clapping, booty's bumping people with voices raised in almost perfect harmony in rousing chorus:
We are family,
I got all my sisters with me,
We are family,
Get up everybody and sing...
We are family,
I got all my sisters with me,
We are family,
Get up everybody and sing...
What fun!
The rest of "We Are Family" is mediocre at best and none of the other songs really capture my musical heart like We Are Family. I continued to follow Sister Sledge' careers (insofar as possible) however, because like I stated above, I was and am in love with the exotic looking foursome. Kathy, who is the youngest, (was) is the cute one; Debbie, (was) is the beautiful one, Kim with a face shaped like a heart and almond shaped eyes (was) is the sophisticated worldly beauty, and Joni (was) is the pretty girl next door.
Where are they now? Kathy' Sledge released a debut solo album, entitled 'Heart', in 1992. The rest of the group sans Kathy, has continued to perform and released African Eyes in 1998, and had continued to tour mostly in Africa and Europe. Who knows, perhaps one day their star will shine here in the U.S. once more!
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