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Kool & the Gang is an American R&B, soul, and funk band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1964. Its founding members include brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell (also known as "Khalis Bayyan"), Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas , Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith , George Brown, Woodrow "Woody" Sparrow, and Ricky Westfield.
James "JT" Warren Taylor (born August 16, 1953) is an American singer who achieved fame as the lead singer of Kool & the Gang between 1979 and 1988. Taylor joined Kool & the Gang in 1979 and remained with the group for nine years. His tenure as lead singer was the most successful era in the band's history with the albums Ladies' Night (1979 ...
Kool & the Gang Spin Their Top Hits — — — — — 1983 Twice as Kool: The Hits of Kool & the Gang — — — — — 4 UK: Gold [13] 1984 The Very Best of Kool & the Gang: Let's Go Dancing — — — — 21 — Disques Vogue: 1988 Everything's Kool & the Gang: Greatest Hits & More: 109 58 — 17 73 — Mercury: The Singles Collection ...
Perfect Union is a 2021 studio album by American disco and funk band Kool & the Gang. The album was the first new music from the group in over a decade [ 1 ] and was last to feature founding member Ronald Bell before his death.
The year of its release, the band played at a record store to promote Everybody's Dancin'. [where?] When nobody showed up for the performance, the band was "humiliated". [citation needed] Ronald Bell recalled that a teenager visiting the store told the band "something they all vaguely sensed": that despite the success of "Jungle Boogie" (1973), "Hollywood Swinging" (1974), and "Funky Stuff ...
Ronald Bell composed, arranged, produced and performed some of the most popular music in Kool and the Gang's body of work. [14] He was a self-taught musician, and his distinctive sound is on the group's horn lines, bass, synthesizer and vocals.
Kool Jazz is the second compilation album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1973 on De-Lite Records. [1] The album reached No. 26 on the US Billboard Top Soul Albums chart and No. 14 on the US Billboard Top Jazz LPs chart.
Kool & the Gang blended jazz, funk, R&B, and pop. The group remained popular from the 1960s through the 1980s. [2] Smith stopped touring in January 2006 due to illness. In 2024, Smith was posthumously selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Kool & the Gang. [3]