Put Chic in ALREADY, where they belong! Pulling a full 110% for them!

Posted by DJ Dave M on Wednesday, 11.1.06 @ 08:53am

Visiting the rap question, you can't put ANY rap artists in until you put Chic in. End of story.

Posted by AZ Dave on Sunday, 03.4.07 @ 10:41am

If Hip Hop music evolved out of Disco then put Chic in the Hall now. Remember "Le Freak" and "Good Times". Oooh!!! Wait a minute there's more.

Posted by Joe-Skee on Thursday, 06.28.07 @ 11:31am

Chic...IS NOT A DISCO group. It is R&B at its highest level. Listen to all the sh*t out on the waves...Chic is the GRANDADDY of all of it.

No Madonna,SRV,Bowie,Duran2,...

Get it?

Posted by wallywurld on Thursday, 10.4.07 @ 19:49pm

Uh, sorry wallywurld, Bowie was already a HUGE star LONG before there ever was a Chic. His first hit in England was in 1969. In fact, considering he was appearing on Soul Train and the black music charts with his unique take on American R&B/dance music several years before Chic's first record, I'd say it's a safe bet that it was HE who influenced THEM.

Posted by ezwriter on Thursday, 10.4.07 @ 20:08pm

Are the drummer and the two original female voices of Chic, who sang Good Times and Le Freak considered a part of the group? Were they just backing members? Will all of them be inducted? Or will it be just Rogers and Edwards?

Nile Rodgers
Bernard Edwards
Tony Thompson
Norma Jean Wright
Alfa Anderson

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04.4.08 @ 09:15am

Are the women in this group considered members? Will they be inducted too?

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 09.23.08 @ 05:10am

Pardon my ignorance, but I am not seeing it. Chic had several hits in the disco era--but so did quite a few others not yet inducted (Donna Summer the most notable). One of their hits, "Good Times", also provided the background track for the first (I believe) rap song ever--but if that is why they deserve to be in the Hall, shouldn't the be behind the Sugar Hill Gang? And their members produced the disco albums of others, but wouldn't that make it more sensible to induct Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, rather than the group Chic?

Posted by Joe on Tuesday, 09.23.08 @ 18:39pm

Strike Up The Band

Posted by Joe-Skee on Friday, 09.26.08 @ 13:18pm

Hey I think Nile Rodgers produced some tracks on Madonna's "Like A Virgin" album. ???

Posted by Joe-Skee on Friday, 09.26.08 @ 13:21pm

Hey I think Nile Rodgers produced some tracks on Madonna's "Like A Virgin" album. ???
Posted by Joe-Skee on Friday

Thank god! something new other than Coven.

I'm not evena big Chic fan,but ANYTHING is better then reading that claptrap.
Nile Rodgers produced Jeff Beck's album "Flash" too.
Beck's playing as usual is great but I didn't care for the album as a whole.
I do like the song "Ambitious" which feautered former Wet Willie (a fave band of mine)
Jimmy Hall on lead vocals.

Chic RRHOF ? "maybe"

Posted by Gary James CA on Friday, 09.26.08 @ 13:40pm

I'm up on Wet Willie too... Capricorn Records. Macon,Georgia. Hard hittin' Country/Funk at it's best.

Posted by Joe-Skee on Friday, 09.26.08 @ 13:51pm

I'm up on Wet Willie too...
Posted by Joe-Skee

Yes,My fave albums by them are Dixie Rock,Keep On Smilin,Drippin' Wet.

Sadly they best remembered for the single Keep On Smilin which i like but they have way better songs.
Jimmy Hall could really belt it out too,I had hoped he would of become Beck's fulltime vocalist back then.
Take care Gary

Posted by Gary James CA on Friday, 09.26.08 @ 14:29pm

I think it is time to finally induct Chic! And I think they should induct not only Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Tony Thompson, Norma Jean Wright, and Alfa Anderson, but also keyboardist virtuoso Rob Sabino, who recorded their first 3 albums with them and played on all their big hits. His R&B keyboarding that he contributed to that album was very influential to 80s Rock keyboarding and Sabino himself also played on all of Chic's offshoots (Power Station, Sister Sledge, Norma Jean), many Nile's produced albums (Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Debbie Harry), and played keyboards on Madonna's hugely influential Like a Virgin album.

If they induct Chic and leave out Robert Sabino as a performer, then it will be one the most unfortunate travesties made by the Hall of Fame

Posted by Bill Martin on Tuesday, 09.30.08 @ 17:36pm

the entire stigma of disco and rap negates the term rock and roll.so i guess loretta lynn is eligible now!please people pushing for coven and chic but are against ringo 25 solo singles ,4 top 40 ,5 top 5,2# 1 singles .not to mention that group he was in back in the sixties.ringo had to songs in the last four years choose love and liverpool 8 .chic and coven remind me of a song by another singer of their talent "what have you done for me lately"

Posted by segovia on Saturday, 10.4.08 @ 16:24pm

Just looking through the list of previously considered artists has made me think that there is one reason for Chic repeatedly reaching the ballot without being inducted.

That being the fact that Chic and solo Peter Gabriel are the only non-rap artists eligible since 2000 who have not already been inducted but are still viewed as legitimate candidates by the Nominating Committee.

It seems to me that other non-rap artists eligible since 2000 and listed "Previously Considered: Yes" (Cheap Trick, Devo, the Cars, Def Leppard, the B-52s, the Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, the Replacements) have been firmly rejected after brief discussion and Chic are the only ones the Committee consideres viable and able to make them seen as not biased toward rap.

Posted by Julien Peter Benney on Friday, 10.17.08 @ 20:19pm

classy band

Posted by mrxyz on Friday, 10.17.08 @ 21:23pm

That's a terrible thing if these bands aren't being considered still. If you simply stop considering new arists, after a while you're gonna stop inducting people in general, unless this is Stave Van Zandt's way of placing the entire decade of the 60's in there retroactively. Does this necesasarily mean that new artists inducted in will, by virtue of not having a second chance, have to go in on their first try or just quit hoping? If that's gonna be the viewpoint regarding the 80's, then Metallica's already done! They had their chance last year, and now they'll never get in.

I'd say it was a good thing inasmuch as folks like Rush, the Stooges, Genesis, etc., the folks that get tossed around these pages, will get a shot. Still though, that would suck knowing that you got in only because a board of voters opted to choose you in essence by default. They wouldn't really be getting in on their own merits, but rather by the prejudice of a board that doesn't want to see anything from the 80's in there. I know I wouldn't want it that way.

Posted by Cheesecrop on Saturday, 10.18.08 @ 05:40am

Cheesecrop,

Did you notice my qualification "who have not already been inducted" ?? U2, the Pretenders, R.E.M., the Police, the Clash etc. would have remained legitmate candidates were they not elected first-up.

I'm sorry about Metallica! I would place them with Chic and solo Peter Gabriel (I can easily see him getting in without Genesis doing so).

Posted by Julein Peter Benney on Sunday, 10.19.08 @ 03:19am

While I have no problem with disco acts getting in, there are other acts more deserving than Chic.Donna Summer, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Kool and the Gang all had a bigger and longer lasting impact than Chic.Their songs are still hugely popular at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs as well as the county fair circuit.I really believe that Chic keeps getting nominated by industry types looking to honor Nile Rodgers.He may be a great producer but that doesn't qualify this act as influential enough to go in the hall.The other acts have all had more hit records that continue to resonate today.Contrary to what the hall officials say, mainstream success is a big factor in defining influence.It's like the nominations are being made by kids who would rather be cool than accurate.

Posted by Rob Silber on Sunday, 11.30.08 @ 17:32pm

Joe,
During Chic's unbelievably productive 1978-1981 heyday, the Sister Sledge, Sheila and B. Devotion, Debbie Harry, Diana Ross, etc. albums were all "composed, written, and arranged by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers" and "produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers for the CHIC Organization", and featured all the musicians of Chic. If they get in, it's as the group.

Should Chic be in the RnRHOF? Yes, as ridiculously talented musicians and musical unit with huge respect from their peers, makers of the "Rappers Delight"/"Another One Bites the Dust" riff, the not-since-Led-Zep drum sound on "I'm Coming Out", and their contributions as producers and musicians to a lot of rock artists. Maybe not, as Chic's own music isn't not rock 'n' roll.

I'm listening to CHIC: Live at the Budokan, with Slash tearing up "Le Freak". "Good Times" indeed.

Posted by skierpage on Friday, 01.2.09 @ 15:14pm

Rebels Are We

Posted by Joe-Skee on Friday, 01.2.09 @ 15:49pm

Chic

Nile Rodgers
Bernard Edwards
Tony Thompson
Norma Jean Wright
Alfa Anderson
Luci Martin
Sylver Logan Sharp

I NEED AN ANSWER! ARE THE FEMALE VOICES CONSIDERED A PART OF THE GROUP? WILL THEY BE INDUCTED AS WELL?

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01.2.09 @ 16:32pm

Thats a good question Roy, a really essential one. Heres an 'unofficial' answer (my best shot).
Rolling Stone biography for Chic only mentions:
Nile Rogers - guitar
Bernard Edwards - bass, vocals
Tony Thompson - drums
Alfa Anderson - vocals
Norma Jean Wright - vocals

I would expect thats the "group" that is nominated. But Norma Jean Wright was only around for 2 years before being replaced by Alpha Anderson. Diva Gray and Luci Martin were also Chic singers. Sylver Logan Sharp was a late comer in the 1990s, so I would not include her.

Posted by Telarock on Friday, 01.2.09 @ 21:25pm

Which women sang on Good Times and Le Freak? Those are the ones that should be inducted!

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 01.3.09 @ 03:13am

CHIC

The Billboard 200 Albums Chart

01. 1978 - # 4 C'est Chic
02. 1978 - # 27 Chic
03. 1979 - # 5 Risque
04. 1980 - # 30 Real People
05. 1980 - # 88 Chic's Greatest Hits
06. 1982 - # 34 Stage Fright
07. 1982 - # 124 Take It Off
08. 1982 - # 173 Tongue In Chic
09. 1992 - # 39 Chic-Ism

The Billboard 100 Singles Chart

01. 1978 - # 6 Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
02. 1978 - # 38 Everybody Dance
03. 1978 - # 1 Le Freak
04. 1979 - # 1 Good Times
05. 1979 - # 7 I Want Your Love
06. 1979 - # 43 My Forbidden Lover
07. 1980 - # 79 Chip Off the Old Block
08. 1980 - # 79 Real People
09. 1980 - # 61 Rebels Are We
10. 1982 - # 80 Soup For One

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05.30.09 @ 13:58pm

Is chart performance the determining factor on whether to grant an induction??

Posted by interviewer on Saturday, 05.30.09 @ 14:21pm

Chic was influencing everyone from early rappers to art rockers. A group that many rock critics were so quick to dismiss was having an impact in many different areas.

Posted by Joe-Skee on Tuesday, 07.21.09 @ 08:05am