Album of the Day

After having been turned away from exclusive New York nightspot Studio 54 one New Year's Eve, Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards channeled their anger into a song, “Le Freak,” which reached #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart on this day in 1978. It's one of two Top 10 hits (the other being “I Want Your Love”) on C'EST CHIC, the second studio album from the disco greats. Guitarist Rodgers and bassist Edwards handle songwriting and production chores here, but the heat from these grooves owes just as much to drummer Tony Thompson and the funky divas at the microphone, Alfa Anderson and Luci Martin. Named R&B Album of the Year by Billboard magazine upon its original release, the Platinum-selling C'EST CHIC remains tres magnifique.