Get Down (album)

Get Down
Get Down
Studio album by Joe Simon
Released	1975
Recorded	Media Sound; (New York City, New York); Bell Sound; (New York City, New York)
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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 7: MUZE. p. 467.CS1 maint: location (link)
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 636.
^ Jump up to: ^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] Jump up to: ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 7: MUZE. p. 467.CS1 maint: location (link)

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

[us-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "US Charts > Joe Simon". Billboard. Retrieved 11 October 2017.

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Studio albums	The Chokin' Kind The Sounds of Simon Drowning in the Sea of Love The Power of Joe Simon Get Down
Singles	"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"