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Devil's Gun is the debut studio album recorded by American disco group C. J. & Company, released in 1977 on the Westbound label.

Devil's Gun
Studio album by C. J. & Company
Released	1977
Recorded	PAC 3 Recording Company (Dearborn, Michigan) Hollywood Sound Recorders (Hollywood, California)
Genre	Soul, disco
Label	Westbound
Producer	Mike Theodore, Dennis Coffey
C. J. & Company chronology
Devil's Gun (1977) Deadeye Dick (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Chart performance

The album peaked at No. 12 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 60 on the Billboard 200. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "We Got Our Own Thing", which charted at No. 93 on the Hot Soul Singles chart . Both tracks, along with the track "Sure Can't Go to the Moon", peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart.

Track listing

Personnel

C.J. & Company

• Cornelius Brown, Jr.
• Joni Tolbert
• Connie Durden
• Curtis Durden
• Charles Clark

Additional Musicians/Personnel

• Uriel Jones, Tiki Fulwood – drums
• Rudy Robinson, Earl Van Dyke – piano
• Greg Coles, Roderick Chandler – bass
• Bruce Nazarian, Robert White – guitar
• Dennis Coffey – guitar solo
• Larry Nozero – flute solo
• Gary Schunk – moog synthesizer solo
• Mike Theodore – horns and strings arrangement

Charts

Chart (1977)	Peak [2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	60
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	12

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
		US [2]	US R&B [2]	US Dan [2]
1977	"Devil's Gun"	36	2	1
	"We Got Our Own Thing"	—	93
	"Sure Can't Go to the Moon"	—	—

References

External links

• Devil's Gun at Discogs (list of releases)

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