C. J. & Company

C.J. & Company (also C.J. & Co. or C.C. & Co.) was a disco group from Detroit, Michigan. They were the partnership of producers Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore. Their highest charting single in the US was "Devil's Gun", which reached #36 on the Billboard pop chart, spending 29 weeks on the HOT 100. It wound up being the #100 song of the year on the Billboard's year end charts, (though only peaking at #36), and #2 on the R&B chart in 1977.^[2] It also peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart.^[3] That song, along with "We Got Our Own Thing" (later sampled by Heavy D and the Boyz) and "Sure Can't Go to the Moon," hit #1 for five weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.^[4]

C.J. & Company
Origin	Detroit, USA
Genres	Disco, R&B
Years active	1977–1979[1]
Members	Curtis "CJ" Durden Connie Durden Joni Tolbert Charles Clark Cornelius Brown

They released two full-length LPs, Devil's Gun (1977) and Deadeye Dick (1978) both for Westbound Records. In 1998 a compilation CD was released with full length selected tracks from both LPs.

"Devil's Gun" was the first record played at the opening of Studio 54 by DJ Richie Kaczor.^[5]

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Title	Peak chart positions			Record label
		US [6]	US R&B [6]	CAN [7]
1977	Devil's Gun	60	12	67	Westbound
1978	Deadeye Dick	—	—	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

• USA Disco (1998, Westbound)

Singles

Year	Title	Peak chart positions
		US [6]	US R&B [6]	US Dan [6]	CAN [7]	NLD [8]	SWE [9]	UK [10]
1975	"Day Dreamer" [A]	91	—	—	—	—	—	—
1977	"Devil's Gun"	36	2	1	55	17	19	43
	"We Got Our Own Thing"	—	93		—	—	—	—
	"Sure Can't Go to the Moon"	—	—		—	—	—	—
1978	"Big City Sidewalk"	106	—	18	—	—	—	—
	"Deadeye Dick"	—	—		—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

• ^A Single credited to C. J. & Company

See also

• List of Billboard number-one dance club songs
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart

References

1. Henderson, Alex. "Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 120.
3. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 89. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 356.
5. "Disco-Disco: A history of Studio 54". Disco-Disco.com.
6. "US Charts > C. J. & Company". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
7. "CAN Charts Search > C. J. & Company". RPM. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
8. "NLD Charts > C. J. & Company". MegaCharts. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
9. "SWE Charts > C. J. & Company". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
10. "UK Charts > C. J. & Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 22, 2016.

External links

• C. J. & Company at AllMusic