Chuck Brown Memorial Park

Wind Me Up, Chuck statue on display in Chuck Brown Memorial Park

Chuck Brown became known as the Godfather of Go-Go, and for good reason: he helped give Washington, D.C. a sound of its own. In 2014, the Chuck Brown Memorial Park in the Langdon neighborhood of the Capitol was built to honor the DC legend. #ChuckBrown #GoGoMusic #WashingtonDC #OneHitWondered

Portrait of Chuck Brown at the 1223 Potomac Gallery in Georgetown

In the 1950s, Chuck Brown shot a man who later died, Brown said it was self-defense… He was sent to prison, where he earned his high school diploma and learned guitar, building the musical foundation that would later shape the Go-Go movement in Washington, D.C. #ChuckBrown #OneHitWondered

The week ending March 17, 1979, Washington D.C.’s Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers earned US #OneHitWonder honors when their seminal Go-Go standard bearer “Bustin’ Loose - Part 1” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #39. It spent 5 weeks on the chart, peaking at #34. #ChuckBrown #OneHitWondered

#ChuckBrown really had no mastery of jazz or blues. He was the godfather of the #GoGo, a kind of derivative of funk that he basically invented.

But together with the awesome #EvaCassidy ❤️❤️, with her amazing vocals,he went beyond his own talents and this is one of the results.

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BLOW YOUR WHISTLE (ACE RE-EDIT), by CHUCK BROWN AND THE SOUL SEARCHERS track by CHUCK BROWN AND THE SOUL SEARCHERS

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Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers:
🎵 Blow Your Whistle

#ChuckBrown #TheSoulSearchers

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them DC bamas movin the ol Capital Centre to DC.

Stop stealing PG County's legacy, ya bamas

#commanders #bamas #ledopizza #KevinDurant #FrederickDouglass #surratt #ChuckBrown #SugarRayLeonard #KathieLeeGifford #MartinLawrence #JimHenson #GoldieHawn #Ginuwine #ThurlBailey #Wale #RoyRogers

So...any Christmas Party playlist in DC that doesn't include Chuck Brown's The Spirit of Christmas album is incomplete.

open.spotify.com/album/3RFINd...

Not an opinion, just facts ;-)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

#ChuckBrown #TheSpiritOfChristmas #HappyHolidays #MadeInDC #MerryChristmas

So...any Christmas Party playlist in DC that doesn't include Chuck Brown's The Spirit of Christmas album is incomplete.

open.spotify.com/album/3RFINd...

Not an opinion, just facts ;-)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

#ChuckBrown #TheSpiritOfChristmas #HappyHolidays #MadeInDC #MerryChristmas

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We Need Some Money (DJDP edit) - Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, by Hey DJ from the album Bakers Dozen - Volume 5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow

Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers:
🎵 We Need Some Money

#6music #ChuckBrown #TheSoulSearchers

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Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - Bustin Loose (Bridge First) (Mm Edit) 112, by Joel Korhonen from the album Late Night Record Pool 0312 part 1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow

Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers:
🎵 Bustin' Loose

#ChuckBrown #TheSoulSearchers

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#ChuckBrownDay
Aug 16, 2025
Ayyyyeeee!!!!! 💃🏿🕺🏿

Chuck Brown
It Don't Mean a Thing
Album: Very Best Of
[2018]

#GoGoSky
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#DC #DMV
#SoundzOfBlackness

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Bustin' Loose Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers · Bustin' Loose · Song · 1979

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Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers:
🎵 Here We Go Again

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▶️ Song on #Spotify:

#WashingtonDC #GoGo #ChuckBrown #SoulSearchers

Sometimes "doom scrolling" on Bluesky is stressful.
Get up and move while you scrolling and shout "Wind me up Chuck!"
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Bar music continued, a few drinks later

What a duo #blues #piano #jazz #EvaCassidy #ChuckBrown

• Drown on my own tears

Bitter Root Vol. 4: The Next Movement Available October 28 #horror – #horrorcomics – #BitterRoot – #ImageComics – @ImageComics – #DavidFWalker – #ChuckBrown – #SanfordGreene – A Lie built a House of Oppression. The Bitter Truth will burn it down. It is 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement. A group of activists have gone missing, and a new generation of the Sangerye family […]

#horror – #horrorcomics – #BitterRoot – #ImageComics – @ImageComics – #DavidFWalker – #ChuckBrown – #SanfordGreene – A Lie built a House of Oppression. The Bitter Truth will burn it down. It is 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement. A group of activists have gone missing, and a new…

“Bustin’ Loose” by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers was a US #34 hit in 1979. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #chuckbrown #70s #EveryHitSongEver

Get it? Double Geo? Go Go! #gogomusic #funksky #funk #dc #dmv #oldschool #chuckbrown

Chuck Baby Chuck Brown, KK · By Special Request the Very Best of Chuck Brown · Song · 2018

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow

Chuck Brown feat. KK:
🎵 Chuck Baby

#ChuckBrown #KK

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On this day, we lost a legend. The Godfather of Go-Go. Happy! I got to see him live. Young Dame watching him on Soul Train never thought it would happen. 🎤🎸

#GoGoForever #ChuckBrown #TheSoulSearchers #DCLegend #HipHop #MusicSky #BlackSky #SoulTrain #GoGoMusic

#Interestingly ‘The Godfather of Go-Go,’ DC-area singer/guitarist & bandleader Chuck Brown, is a US #OneHitWonder honoree… “Bustin’ Loose - Part 1” by Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers spent 5 weeks on the US #Billboard Top 40 in 1979, peaking at #34. #ChuckBrown #GoGo #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

All us musicians called him “Pops”.

It is so cool to see him honored in the NMAAHC. #ChuckBrown

#OneHitHistory “Bustin’ Loose” by DC’s Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers, peaked at #34 on the US #Billboard Top 40 the week ending April 7, 1979. The US #OneHitWonder honoree spent 5 weeks on the chart. #ChuckBrown #OneHitWondered #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2jM...

The #BitterRoot Trinity brings you a new story.

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#BitterRootTheNextMovement is in stores now.

It’s 1964, where the Civil Rights Movement is at a fever pitch, and the jinoo, creatures born out of hate & racism, have evolved into a threat that few recognize and even fewer know how to fight! BITTER ROOT: THE NEXT MOVEMENT by @sanfordgreene.bsky.social, & @davidfwalker.bsky.social, & #ChuckBrown

MULTIPLE EISNER AWARD WINNING BITTER ROOT SERIES RETURNS TO KICK OFF “THE NEXT MOVEMENT” STORY ARC IN MARCH 2025 Image is a comics and graphic novels publisher formed in 1992 by 7 of the comics industry's best-selling artists, and is the 3rd largest comics publisher in the United States.

In #BitterRootTheNextMovement, a lie built a House of Oppression. The bitter truth will burn it down.

The #BitterRoot Trinity (@davidfwalker.bsky.social, @sanfordgreene.bsky.social & #ChuckBrown) take you to 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

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