Get_Down_(album) References

Get Down
Get Down
Studio album by Joe Simon
Released	1975
Studio	Media Sound (New York City); Bell Sound (New York City);
Genre	Soul, R&B
Label	Spring
Producer	Raeford Gerald, Joe Simon, Ed Townsend
Joe Simon chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]

Get Down is a studio album by the American singer Joe Simon, released in 1975 on Spring Records.^[2]

Chart performance

The album peaked at No. 10 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 129 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles " Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)", which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Music in My Bones", which charted at No. 7 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 92 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	" Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)"	Raeford Gerald, Joe Simon	3:51
2.	"Fire Burning"	Raeford Gerald, Joe Simon	3:27
3.	"It's Be's That Way Sometime"	Phillip Mitchell	6:11
4.	"Music in My Bones"	Raeford Gerald, Joe Simon	5:10

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"You Don't Want to Believe It (My Man)"	Ed Townsend	3:15
6.	"In My Baby's Arms"	Harlan Howard, Raeford Gerald, Joe Simon	3:30
7.	"Still at the Mercy of Your Love"	Rose Marie McCoy, Helen Miller	3:33
8.	"It's Crying Time in Memphis"	Raeford Gerald, Roger Terry, Joe Simon	4:03

Charts

Chart (1975)	Peak ^[4]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	129
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	10

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
Year	Single	US ^[4]	US R&B ^[4]
1975	Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)"	8	1
1975	"Music in My Bones"	92	7

References

^ Get Down review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
^ ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 467.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 636.
^ ^a ^b ^c "US Charts > Joe Simon". Billboard. Retrieved 11 October 2017.

External links

Get Down at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] Get Down review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-10-11.

[CL-2] Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 467.

[RS-3] The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 636.

[us-4] "US Charts > Joe Simon". Billboard. Retrieved 11 October 2017.

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v t e Joe Simon
Studio albums	The Chokin' Kind The Sounds of Simon Drowning in the Sea of Love The Power of Joe Simon Get Down
Singles	" (You Keep Me) Hangin' On" " The Chokin' Kind" " San Francisco Is a Lonely Town" " Help Me Make It Through the Night" " Drowning in the Sea of Love" " Power of Love" " Misty Blue" " Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)" " Funny How Time Slips Away"