Talk:Let's All Chant

Let's All Chant has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 18, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Let's All Chant/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: CyrockingSmiler (talk • contribs) 09:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'll be starting the review shortly. CyrockingSmiler (talk) 09:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article is perfectly fine now. Promoting it to GA status. Good job! CyrockingSmiler (talk) 12:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Links[edit]

Disambiguation: None found
External:Some external links are really dodgy or dead. Click on the "External links" in the GA toolbox and fix/ replace them.

References/ Bibliography[edit]

It's all good.

Prose[edit]

Lead

"Let's All Chant has been well received by critics, who have praised its musical arrangement and its catchiness. Many reviewers have regarded the song as a classic of the disco era" Let's all chant was well received by critics, who praised its musical arrangement and its catchiness. Many reviewers regard the song as a classic of the disco era.

Background and recording

Everything's good.

Commercial performance and sales

Composition should be put before this section. Critical reception should be a stand-alone section.

Composition and critical reception

"Critically, Henderson gives two different aspects of the track. While he views "Let's All Chant" as "quirky", as one of the most "unorthodox disco hits of 1978" and describes its lyrics as "usual disco clichés", he also highlights its "excellence" and finds the song both "infectious" and "interesting" Alex Henderson from AllMusic called the song "quirky, infectious and interesting" and one of the most "unorthodox hits of 1978", although he criticized the lyrics for being "usual disco clichés."

On their book Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco, Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen describe the song as "supremely catchy and melodic, with a quite miraculous classical chamber music-style break in the middle" and consider the track an "anthem", "a key recording that instantly defines the disco era." In their book Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco, Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen described the song as being "supremely catchy and melodic, with a quite miraculous classical chamber music-style break in the middle" and considered the track "a key recording that instantly defines the disco era."

"They also regard "Let's All Chant" as "the high point" in Michael Zager's career" They also regarded "Let's All Chant" as the high point in Michael Zager's career.

"In 2006, Slant Magazine ranked the song 50 in its 100 Greatest Dance Songs list, describing the song as a "deft mix of disco, funk and baroque-pop", specifying it is "the song's breakdown that makes "Chant" so special"." In 2006, Slant Magazine ranked the song no. 50 in its 100 Greatest Dance Songs list, describing it as a "deft mix of disco, funk and baroque-pop" and writing that the song's breakdown made it special.

Track listings

Everything's ok.

Charts and sales

Fix the bad links in this section.

Impact and influence

"Following its release and its worldwide success, "Let's All Chant" brought Michael Zager to mainstream success[2] and became a turning point in his career" Following the song's release and worldwide success, "Let's All Chant" introduced Michael Zager in the mainstream and became a turning point in his career.

"The song allowed Private Stock to promote Michael Zager Band forthcoming eponymous LP and contributed to its success." Private Stock promoted Michael Zager Band's eponymous LP due to the success of the song. It became a contributing factor the success of the LP.

Appearances

Let's All Chant" was heard in the 1978 movie Eyes of Laura Mars, when Laura Mars was setting up an elaborate shoot juxtaposing murder and high fashion.
The song is featured on the soundtrack of the 1998 movie The Last Days of Disco.
It is used in the 1999 movie Summer of Sam.
"Let's All Chant" was heard in the end credits of the Top of the Pops episode dated April 13, 1978.

The rest of the article is good. If you fix the prose and the links within a week I'll promote it to GA status. CyrockingSmiler (talk) 10:10, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The so-called "dead links" which appear here are not exactly "dead". I used the Wayback Machine template so the info can be retrieved (cf. references 10, 11, 43 and 55). But anyway, thank you very much for your help. Synthwave.94 (talk) 15:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

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In my opinion, this article is adequate for GA classification. Well done! CyrockingSmiler (talk) 12:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You probably don't know it but you helped me improving an article which was a redirect for a whole year. I proved a redirect can be changed into a good article and I hope I would be able to do the same thing with other articles/redirects. Thank you very much for your review. Synthwave.94 (talk) 13:29, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Synthwave.94: You're most welcome and you really did write this article in a cohesive and lucid way. Once again, congratulations! CyrockingSmiler (talk) 18:47, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Piccolo trumpet solo[edit]

It's a pity we can't name the session player who did the rather fine piccolo trumpet solo. My understanding is that it is quite well known in the business that it was Ray Crisara, but I have not yet found a reliable source that says it. Do editors have Secret Squirrel info stashes full of WP:RSs on stuff like this??? Cheers DBaK (talk) 16:57, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]