Finger Family Song

Finger Family Song is a song by Sis Sledge, comprised by Bernard Edwards and also Nile Rodgers. Rodgers and Edwards offered the song to Atlantic Records; although the record tag at first decreased, the track was released as a solitary from the album of the exact same name as well as quickly started to obtain club and radio play.

" We Are Family members" at some point went Gold, ending up being the leading R&B and also number two pop song on the United States graphes in 1979. [1] Together with the tracks, "He's the best Professional dancer" as well as "Lost in Songs", "We Are Family members" got to leading on the nightclub graphes. [2] It was likewise the theme song for the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates

We Are Household" was the first song that Nile Rodgers and also Bernard Edwards created for other act compared to their own band Chic. After their very first hit "Dance, Dance, Dancing (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)", Atlantic Records President Jerry L. Greenberg wanted the pair to write and also generate for various other act upon the tag, which Rodgers and Edwards thought about far also big and well-known, ie: The Rolling Stones, Bette Midler, and so on. [3] Their factor was that any credit history of a pinch hit such a well-known act would just visit the executing larger act, and not establish Rodgers/Edwards as song writer/producers. [3] So both suggested that they compose and create a song for the tag's least well-known act, which if they obtained them a hit record, after that they might take the difficulty of composing for a bigger act. [3]

According to Rodgers, the knowledgeables were mostly verbatim based upon exactly how Greenberg described the group to them when very first commissioning the job. [3] Rodgers/Edwards then just walked instantly to the workshop, reorganized their notes from the meeting into verses, as well as composed a track melody underneath them. [3] The chorus (and consequently the title) refers to the actual fact that the team are the 4 siblings of a family members. [3] The tune has because taken place to be utilized a lot more normally as an expression of uniformity in various contexts, significantly as the anthem of the We Are Household Structure, which is called after it. The lead vocals to "We Are Family members" were videotaped in a solitary take by then-19-year-old Kathy Sledge..