Nile, Mingus and Ethel

In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed Nile Rodgers on Chic's Good Times (1979) for my "Anatomy of a Song" column (go here). In my conversation with Nile, he not only looked back at the song's development but also how it wound up on the Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight later that year, inadvertently launching hip-hop. Turns out Debbie Har…