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We Are Family (song)
"We Are Family" is a song by Sister Sledge, composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. Rodgers and Edwards offered the song to Atlantic Records; although the record label initially declined, the track was released as a single from the album of the same name and quickly began to gain club and radio play.
"We Are Family" eventually went Gold, becoming the number one R&B and number two pop song on the US charts in 1979. Along with the tracks, "He's the Greatest Dancer" and "Lost in Music", "We Are Family" reached number one on the disco charts. It was also the theme song for the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates, and was featured in both the 1996 film ''The Birdcage'', starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, and the 1997 film ''The Full Monty''.
==Origins and meaning==
"We Are Family" was the first song that Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards wrote for any other act than their own band Chic. After their first hit ''Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)'', Atlantic Records President Jerry L. Greenberg wanted the pair to write and produce for other acts on the label, which Rodgers and Edwards considered far too big and established, ie: The Rolling Stones, Bette Midler, etc.〔 Their point was that any credit of a hit for such an established act would just go to the performing bigger act, and not establish Rodgers/Edwards as song writer/producers.〔 So the pair suggested that they write and produce a song for the label's least established act, and that if they got them a hit record, then they could take the challenge of writing for a bigger act.〔Nile Roidgers in conversation, ''Music Matters interview'', 2007, Hong Kong〕
According to Rodgers, the verses were mostly verbatim based on how Greenberg described the group to them when first commissioning the work.〔 Rodgers/Edwards then simply walked immediately to the studio, rearranged their notes from the meeting into lyrics, and wrote a song melody underneath them.〔 The chorus (and therefore the title) makes reference to the literal fact that the group are the four sisters of a family.〔 The song has since gone on to be used more generally as an expression of solidarity in various contexts, notably as the anthem of the We Are Family Foundation, which is named after it. The lead vocals to "We Are Family" were recorded in a single take by then-19-year-old Kathy Sledge.
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