Good to Go Lover
# Good to Go Lover

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Robert Christgau | C+ |

Good to Go Lover is a 1986 studio album by American singer Gwen Guthrie. The album was produced by Guthrie, with musicians performing on the album including Larry Levan, two Surface members and Bernie Worrell, a Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist.

The album spawned one big hit single, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent", reaching number 1 on both the US Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and Hot Black Singles charts and number 42 on the pop chart. "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" was also a big hit in the UK, where it reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart. The second single released from the album, a cover of "(They Long To Be) Close To You", reached number 25 in the UK.

## Personnel

### Musicians

* Michael Clark – keyboards
* David Conley – drum programming, keyboards, Moog Bass, synthesizer
* Sly Dunbar – drum programming
* Steve Ferrone – drums
* Gwen Guthrie – vocal arrangement, background vocals, vocals
* Bill Hagans – drum programming, keyboards
* Gary Henry – keyboards
* Brian Morgan – performer
* Onaje Allan Gumbs – performer
* Ira Siegel – guitar
* David Townsend – keyboards
* Bernie Worrell – keyboards

### Production

* Dave Conley, Gregg Mann, Harvey Goldberg, Larry Levan, Matthew "Krash" Kasha – mixing
* Gregg Mann – engineer
* Steve Khan – engineer
* Scott James – engineer
* Julian Robertson – engineer
* Tom Zepp – engineer
* Kendal Stubbs – engineer
* Bill Wylie – photography
* Jack Skinner – mastering
* Dave Conley – associate producer
* Ernestine Bell – production assistant
* Jerome Gasper – mixing, executive producer
* Gwen Guthrie – producer, mixing

## Chart performance

| Charts (1986) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| U.S. Billboard R&B | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 89 |
| Australia (Kent Music Report) | 99 |
| UK Albums Chart | 42 |

### Singles

| Year | Title | Chart positions | Chart positions | Chart positions | Chart positions | Chart positions | Chart positions |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Year | Title | U.S. Hot 100 | U.S. R&B | U.S. Club Play | U.S. Dance Sales | AUS | UK |
| 1986 | "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" | 42 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 75 | 5 |
| 1986 | "Outside the Rain" | — | 51 | — | — | — | — |
| 1987 | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" | — | 69 | — | — | — | 26 |
