Chic Cheer

It was recorded in 1978 at Power Station in New York City for Chic’s second album, C’est Chic, with Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers producing and Bob Clearmountain engineering. The track opened the album and was written by Edwards and Rodgers. It functioned as the celebratory opener to C’est Chic, the album that also contained “Le Freak” and “I Want Your Love,” and it helped define Chic’s sleek New York disco-funk sound at the height of the late-1970s club era. Contemporary and retrospective coverage treats the album as the group’s breakthrough statement. The track remains part of Chic’s core catalog and is regularly included on compilations and reissues, preserving the band’s call-and-response intro and precision groove as an example of their signature style. Its place at the start of one of disco’s most influential albums keeps it in circulation among listeners and DJs.