Get Off (album)
Encyclopedia
Get Off is the second album by Miami, Florida
Latin
Dance
/disco
group Foxy
. Album contains Top Ten Hit Get Off
.
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
Dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
/disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
group Foxy
Foxy (band)
Foxy is a Latin Dance/disco group formed in 1976 in Miami, Florida.The group consisted of vocalist-guitarist Ish "Angel" Ledesma , percussionist Richard "Richie" Puente, keyboardist Charlie Murciano, bass guitarist Arnold Paseiro and drummer Joe Galdo...
. Album contains Top Ten Hit Get Off
Get Off
"Get Off" was a hit song by Miami based Latin/disco band Foxy in 1978. Released from their LP of the same name, the song became a crossover hit. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart during the fall of that year and also peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot...
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Track listing
- Tena's Song - (Charlie Murciano, Ish Ledesma) 4:53
- Ready For Love - (Ish Ledesma) 3:59
- Madamoiselle (Carl Driggs, Ish Ledesma) 4:46
- You - (Ish Ledesma) 6:12
- Get OffGet Off"Get Off" was a hit song by Miami based Latin/disco band Foxy in 1978. Released from their LP of the same name, the song became a crossover hit. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart during the fall of that year and also peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot...
- (Carl Driggs, Ish Ledesma) 4:03 - Lucky Me - (Ish Ledesma) 6:44
- Goin' Back To You - (Charlie Murciano) 5:40
- It's Happening - (Carl Driggs, Ish Ledesma) 3:30
Personnel
- Ish Ledesma - Backing Vocals, Guitar, Lead Vocals, Melodica
- Richie Puente, Jr. - Percussion
- Charlie Murciano - Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Woodwind
- Arnold Paseiro - Bass
- Joe Galdo - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
- Carl Driggs - Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Percussion
- Bonaroo Horns - Horns
Chart positions
- Album
Chart (1978) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Pop Albums Billboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...12 U.S. Billboard Black Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop AlbumsTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...3
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | ||
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| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
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| 1978 | "Get Off Get Off "Get Off" was a hit song by Miami based Latin/disco band Foxy in 1978. Released from their LP of the same name, the song became a crossover hit. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart during the fall of that year and also peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot... " |
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