“C.J. & Company,” also known as “C.J. & Co.” was
a disco band founded in 1977 in Detroit (Michigan) by Dennis Coffey and Mike
Theodore. The band consisted of three male singers and two female singers:
Curtis “CJ” Durden, Charles Clark (of the band Floaters), Cornelius Brown Jr.,
Connie Durden and Joni Tolbert. Their most successful single was "Devil's
Gun", released in 1977 on "Westbound Records". The song spent 29
weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number two on the R&B Billboard
Chart. "Devil's Gun" was the first record played at the opening of
the legendary nightclub “Studio 54” by DJ Richie Kaczor. "Devil's
Gun" along with "We Got Our Own Thing" (later sampled by Heavy D
and the Boyz) and "Sure Can't Go to the Moon", reached number one on
the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart. In 1979 the group disbanded after
releasing only two albums (1977-Devil's Gun / 1978-Deadeye Dick) with a third
album already completed but never distributed. In 2018 the album of unreleased
songs "Ain't It Amazing" was released, that is, the third album from
1979 which saw the light almost forty years later.
Album
1977 - Devil's Gun
1978 - Deadeye Dick
2018 - Ain't It Amazing (The Unreleased Westbound Masters)
Singles
1977 - Devil's Gun
1977 - We Got Our Own Thing
1977 - Big City Sidewalk
1978 - Deadeye Dick
2018 - Let Them Talk
2019 - Rainmaker
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