Bustin' Loose (Chuck Brown album)

Bustin' Loose is a studio album released in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers. The album includes the charting single and one of the all-time classic go-go songs "Bustin' Loose", along with a remake of the classic Jerry Butler's soul ballad "Never Give You Up" from the 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh.

Bustin' Loose
Studio album by
Chuck Brown
Released1979
StudioSigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia
Genre
Length39:06
LabelSource, MCA
Producer
  • James Purdie
  • Logan H. Westbrooks
Chuck Brown chronology
Salt of the Earth
(1974)		 Bustin' Loose
(1979)		 Funk Express
(1980)
Singles from Winner Takes It All
  1. "Bustin' Loose"
    Released: October 1978
  2. "Never Gonna Give You Up"
    Released: 1979
  3. "Game Seven"
    Released: April 1979
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
ARTISTdirect
Christgau's Record GuideB+
MusicHound R&B
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul

Bustin' Loose became Brown's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, where it peaked at number 31. On August 10, 1979, Bustin' Loose was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States. The single "Bustin' Loose" was also certified gold by the RIAA on March 14, 1979.

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