Good to Go Lover

Good to Go Lover is a 1986 studio album by American singer Gwen Guthrie. The album was produced by Guthrie, with musicians performing on the album including Larry Levan, two Surface members and Bernie Worrell, a Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist.

The album spawned one big hit single, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent", reaching number 1 on both the US Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and Hot Black Singles charts and number 42 on the pop chart. "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" was also a big hit in the UK, where it reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart. The second single released from the album, a cover of "(They Long To Be) Close To You", reached number 25 in the UK.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."(They Long to Be) Close to You"Burt Bacharach, Hal David5:33
2."Outside in the Rain"David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend, Joshua Thompson5:19
3."Good to Go Lover"Gwen Guthrie, Bill Hagans6:04
4."You Touched My Life"Gwen Guthrie5:08
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent"Gwen Guthrie5:55
6."I Still Want You"David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend4:42
7."Stop Holding Back"David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend6:01
8."Passion Eyes"Charles W. Rogers5:05
2013 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
9."Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" (12" Club Mix)Gwen Guthrie7:16
10."Outside in the Rain" (US Polydor 7" Version)David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend, Joshua Thompson4:02
11."Save Your Love for Me" (Duet with Surface)Gwen Guthrie, David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend4:50
12."(They Long to Be) Close to You" (US Polydor 7" Version)Burt Bacharach, Hal David3:49

Personnel

Musicians

Production

  • Dave Conley, Gregg Mann, Harvey Goldberg, Larry Levan, Matthew "Krash" Kasha – mixing
  • Gregg Mann – engineer
  • Steve Khan – engineer
  • Scott James – engineer
  • Julian Robertson – engineer
  • Tom Zepp – engineer
  • Kendal Stubbs – engineer
  • Bill Wylie – photography
  • Jack Skinner – mastering
  • Dave Conley – associate producer
  • Ernestine Bell – production assistant
  • Jerome Gasper – mixing, executive producer
  • Gwen Guthrie – producer, mixing

Chart performance

Singles

References

Uses material from the Wikipedia article Good to Go Lover, released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.