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Released on De‐Lite Records, also Summer Madness, Hollywood Swinging and Get Down on It
Written by Gene Redd, also Baby, You Make Me Crazy (Sam Smith), Breathe and Stop (Q‐Tip) and Send It On (D’Angelo)
Part of Kool and the Gang, also Let the Music Take Your Mind, Chocolate Buttermilk and Kool’s Back Again
Produced by Gene Redd, also Chocolate Buttermilk, Kool’s Back Again and Sea of Tranquility
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Kool & the Gang wrote 18 songs on fono
Gene Redd wrote 17 songs on fono
Gene Redd’s most frequent co-writer is Kool & the Gang (11 songs together)
Gene Redd first appears on fono in 1964, 5 years before this song
Credits
All 13 credits
- Written by
- Gene Redd and Kool & the Gang
- Produced by
- Gene Redd
- Performed by
- Claydes Smith, Dennis “D.T.” Thomas, George Brown, Khalis Bayyan, Ricky West, Robert Spike Mickens, Robert “Kool” Bell and Woody Sparrow
- Part of
- Kool and the Gang
- Released on
- De‐Lite Records
- Written by
- Gene Redd and Kool & the Gang
- Produced by
- Gene Redd
- Performed by
- Claydes Smith, Dennis “D.T.” Thomas, George Brown, Khalis Bayyan, Ricky West, Robert Spike Mickens, Robert “Kool” Bell and Woody Sparrow
- Part of
- Kool and the Gang
- Released on
- De‐Lite Records
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Gene Redd
Same producer: Gene Redd
Same label: De‐Lite Records
Same release: Kool and the Gang
Same writer: Gene Redd
Same producer: Gene Redd
Same label: De‐Lite Records
Same writer: Gene Redd
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Claydes Smith
Give It Up was performed by Claydes Smith
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Dennis “D.T.” Thomas
Give It Up was performed by Dennis “D.T.” Thomas
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by George Brown
Give It Up was performed by George Brown
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Khalis Bayyan
Give It Up was performed by Khalis Bayyan
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Ricky West
6MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Robert Spike Mickens
Give It Up was performed by Robert Spike Mickens
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Robert “Kool” Bell
Give It Up was performed by Robert “Kool” Bell
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
8MusicBrainz Give It Up was performed by Woody Sparrow
Give It Up was performed by Woody Sparrow
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
9MusicBrainz Give It Up was produced by Gene Redd
10MusicBrainz Give It Up was written by Gene Redd
11MusicBrainz Give It Up was written by Kool & the Gang
Give It Up was written by Kool & the Gang
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
12MusicBrainz Give It Up is part of the release Kool and the Gang
Give It Up is part of the release Kool and the Gang
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
13MusicBrainz De‐Lite Records is the label of the song Give It Up
De‐Lite Records is the label of the song Give It Up
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
14MusicBrainz Give It Up was released on 1969