title: Good to Go Lover
text: # 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 |
  