"
Chase Me" was a #4 hit single from the
1979 album "
Candy" by
Con Funk Shun, an
American R&B; and funk band popular in the
1970s and
1980s.
The band was formed by a pair of high school students in
Vallejo, California, drummer
Louis A. McCall Sr. and singer/guitarist
Michael Cooper. The two got their start as a backup group for
The Soul Children under the name
Project Soul. They began working with
Stax Records staff songwriters, and while recording at
Audio Dimensions, a
Memphis, Tennessee sound studio, producer Ted Sturges both named the group (after an instrumental recording by
The Nite-Liters) and produced their first album, "
Organized Con Funk Shun". In
1976, Con Funk Shun signed to
Mercury Records, releasing eleven albums over a span of ten years. The group's
1977 LP, "
Secrets", was certified gold in the
U.S., as were 1978's "Loveshine", 1979's "Candy", and
1980's "
Spirit Of Love". They scored a string of top ten hits on the
Billboard black
singles chart, including 1979's "Chase Me" (#4). Tensions from within the group built over the 1980s, and the group's last album, "
Burning Love", was recorded without songwriter and vocalist
Felton Pilate. After leaving
Mercury, the band broke up in
1986, but some members of the group reunited alongside touring musicians for concerts in the
1990s.
Original drummer Louis A. McCall Sr. was murdered in a robbery at his
Stone Mountain, Georgia Village Square Apartments home on June 25,
1997. Con Funk Shun continues to receive airplay on U.S. soul radio stations that play music of the 1970s and '80s.
Additionally, their back-beats have been repeatedly sampled by later artists in hip-hop, R&B;, and rap. This channel is dedicated to all the great 'old school'
R&B; music I grew up with, the stuff that originally made me tap my feet and want to be a DJ.
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. . . 60s, 70s, 80s . . . whatever you call it, it's all '
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Phonogram Records
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- published: 14 Mar 2011
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