{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Tongue in Chic | type = studio | artist = Chic | cover = Chic - Tongue In Chic.jpg | alt = | released = November 1, 1982 | recorded = April – August 1982 | venue = | studio = Power Station, New York City | genre = Post-disco, R&B | length = 32:42 | label = Atlantic | producer = Nile Rodgers,<br />Bernard Edwards | prev_title = Soup for One | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = Believer | next_year = 1983 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative cover | type = studio | cover = | border = | alt = | caption = ''Real People'' + ''Tongue in Chic'' 2006 reissue. }} {{Singles | name = Tongue in Chic | type = studio | single1 = Hangin' | single1date = November 1982 | single2 = I Feel Your Love Comin' On | single2date = December 1982 }} }} {{music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tongue-in-chic-mw0000836902 |title=''Tongue in Chic'' – Chic <nowiki>| Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |</nowiki> AllMusic |last=Henderson |first=Alex |website=AllMusic |accessdate=1 June 2015}}</ref> | rev2 = Robert Christgau | rev2score = A−<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Chic |title=Robert Christgau - Consumer Guide Reviews: Chic |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |website=robertchristgau.com |accessdate=1 June 2015}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=2 |page=329}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev4score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=129}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Spin Alternative Record Guide'' |rev5score = 6/10<ref name="SP">{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |pages=81–82}}</ref> }} '''''Tongue in Chic''''' is the sixth studio album by American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in 1982.<ref name=CL/> The album includes the singles "Hangin'" (R&B #48) and "I Feel Your Love Comin' On" (issued only in the Netherlands). ''Tongue in Chic'' peaked at No. 173 on the ''Billboard'' 200.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Chart History Chic |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chic/chart-history/tlp/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
The album was the second of two projects to be written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in 1982, the other being the soundtrack to movie ''Soup for One''.
''Tongue in Chic'' was transferred to compact disc and re-released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1991. The album was digitally remastered and re-issued by Wounded Bird Records in 2003.
==Critical reception== The ''Spin Alternative Record Guide'' wrote that the album "offers some extended nasty grooves that would soon be watered down for Bowie's ''Let's Dance'', but the songwriting falters halfway."<ref name=SP/>
==Track listing== All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. ;Side A #"Hangin'" – 5:12 {{audio|Chic - Hangin'.ogg|'''Listen'''}} #"I Feel Your Love Comin' On" – 6:52 #"When You Love Someone" – 5:06 ;Side B #"Chic (Everybody Say)" – 4:46 #"Hey Fool" – 3:40 #"Sharing Love" – 2:40 #"City Lights" – 4:26
==Personnel== * Alfa Anderson – lead vocals (A3, B2) * Jocelyn Brown – vocals * Michelle Cobbs – vocals * Luci Martin – vocals * Dolette McDonald – vocals * Fonzi Thornton – vocals * Nile Rodgers – guitar, vocals * Marty Celay – additional guitar on "When You Love Someone" * Raymond Jones – keyboards * Rob Sabino – keyboards * Bernard Edwards – bass guitar; lead vocals (A1, A2, B3) * Tony Thompson – drums * Sammy Figueroa – percussion * Robert Aaron – saxophone * Ray Maldonado – trumpet * Gene Orloff – strings
===Production=== * Bernard Edwards – producer for Chic Organization Ltd. * Nile Rodgers – producer for Chic Organization Ltd. * Bill Scheniman – sound engineer * Jason Corsaro, Dave "The Rave" Greenberg – second engineer * Scott Litt – sound mix * Bob Ludwig – mastering * Bob Defrin – art direction * Herbert Schulz – photography * Recorded and mixed at Power Station NYC. * Mastered at Atlantic Studios NYC.
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