Sweet Dynamite

Sweet Dynamite is the debut album by Canadian singer Claudja Barry. Barry had briefly been a member of an early line-up of Boney M. but left January 1976 and was replaced by Liz Mitchell. Shortly after, she released her first single on the Lollipop-label, produced by her husband-to-be Jürgen S. Korduletsch, a cover of Jeanne Burton's "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do", backed with the track "Disco Love" (a track similar to Penny MacLean's contemporary hit "Lady Bump"). Later in the year the single "Why Must a Girl Like Me" was released, leading up to the release of the LP entitled "Sweet Dynamite" in November. While most of the material was original compositions by Korduletsch and his partner Jörg Evers, it included a medley of two songs, both entitled "Do It Again", one by George Gershwin and one by Steely Dan.

Sweet Dynamite
Studio album by Claudja Barry
Released	Nov. 1976 (Europe), May 1977 (US)
Recorded	1976
Genre	Disco, Funk
Length	43:05
Label	Philips/Lollipop
Producer	Jürgen S. Korduletsch
Claudja Barry chronology
Sweet Dynamite (1976) The Girl Most Likely (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Although the album and its singles went fairly unnoticed in Germany, import copies garnered interest in the US where Salsoul Records picked up the album for a release in May 1977 in a drastically altered version. Tom Moulton had kept only 5 of the original tracks, remixing and extending them and, in the case of "Live a Little Bit", removing Barry's vocals completely. "Sweet Dynamite" became a Top 10 hit on Billboard's Disco Charts^[2]

Love for the Sake of Love

Barry's mid-tempo album track "Love for the Sake of Love" garnered recognition 23 years after its release when it was sampled in 1999 on Montell Jordan's "Get It On Tonite" which went No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, selling 800,000 copies in the US alone. It was also a Top 20-hit in several European countries. The track has been sampled by other artists, incl. the late rapper Prodigy and Mobb Deep.^[3]

Track listing

1976 European Version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweet Dynamite"	Jürgen S. Korduletsch Jörg Evers	4:06
2.	"Why Must a Girl Like Me"	Korduletsch Evers	4:07
3.	"Dance, Dance, Dance"	Korduletsch Evers	5:34
4.	"Live a Little Bit"	Korduletsch Evers	3:51
5.	"This Taste of Love"	Korduletsch Evers	4:21
6.	"Love for the Sake of Love"	Korduletsch Evers	5:16
7.	"Ride on My Fire"	Korduletsch Evers	4:07
8.	"Do It Again (Part I & II)"	George Gershwin Buddy DeSylva Walter Becker Donald Fagen Korduletsch	8:28
9.	"Nobody Loves Me Like You Do Do"	Sonny Casella	2:56

1977 US Version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Love for the Sake of Love"	Korduletsch Evers	7:53
2.	"Sweet Dynamite"	Korduletsch Evers	7:22
3.	"Dance, Dance, Dance"	Korduletsch Evers	6:43
4.	"Live a Little Bit"	Korduletsch Evers	3:28
5.	"Why Must a Girl Like Me"	Korduletsch Evers	7:21

Remix: Tom Moulton

Musicians

Drums: Keith Forsey
Bass: Gary Unwin, Dave King
Keyboards: Thor Baldursson
Guitar: Jörg Evers
Percussion: Jürgen S. Korduletsch, Jörg Evers
Backing Vocals: Roberta Kelly, Claudia Schwartz & Stefan Zauner^[4]

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[5]
		Hot Dance/Disco
1977	"Sweet Dynamite"	6