Devil's Gun (album)

Devil's Gun
Devil's Gun
Studio album by C. J. & Company
Released	1977
Recorded	PAC 3 Recording Company; (Dearborn, Michigan); Hollywood Sound Recorders; (Hollywood, California)
Genre	Soul, disco
Label	Westbound
Producer	Mike Theodore, Dennis Coffey
C. J. & Company chronology
Singles from Devil's Gun
	"Devil's Gun"; Released: May 1977;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Devil's Gun is the debut studio album recorded by American disco group C. J. & Company, released in 1977 on the Westbound label.

Chart performance

The album peaked at No. 12 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 60 on the Billboard 200. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "We Got Our Own Thing", which charted at No. 93 on the Hot Soul Singles chart . Both tracks, along with the track "Sure Can't Go to the Moon", peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Connie Durden, Charles Clark, Cornelius Brown, Jr., Joni Tolbert, Mike Theodore, Curtis Durden, Dennis Coffey, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Devil's Gun"	Barry Green, Ron Roker, Gerry Shury	7:14
2.	"We Got Our Own Thing"		9:30

Side two
No.	Title	Length
3.	"Free to Be Me"	5:03
4.	"Get a Groove in Order to Move"	5:11
5.	"Sure Can't Go to the Moon"	7:30

Personnel

C.J. & Company

Cornelius Brown, Jr.
Joni Tolbert
Connie Durden
Curtis Durden
Charles Clark

Additional Musicians/Personnel

Uriel Jones, Tiki Fulwood – drums
Rudy Robinson, Earl Van Dyke – piano
Greg Coles, Roderick Chandler – bass
Bruce Nazarian, Robert White – guitar
Dennis Coffey – guitar solo
Larry Nozero – flute solo
Gary Schunk – moog synthesizer solo
Mike Theodore – horns and strings arrangement

Charts

Chart (1977)	Peak ^[2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	60
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	12

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
Year	Single	US ^[2]	US R&B ^[2]	US Dan ^[2]
1977	"Devil's Gun"	36	2	1
	"We Got Our Own Thing"	—	93
	"Sure Can't Go to the Moon"	—	—

References

^ Henderson, Alex. Devil's Gun review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "US Charts > C.J. & Company". Billboard. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

External links

Devil's Gun at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] Henderson, Alex. Devil's Gun review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-10-30.

[us-2] "US Charts > C.J. & Company". Billboard. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

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