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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 ...
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.
Forever is the seventeenth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1986.The album included two major hits on the US Hot 100 Chart: "Victory" (US #10, R&B #2) and "Stone Love" (US #10, R&B #4).
Twice as Kool: The Hits of Kool & the Gang is a compilation double album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1983 on De-Lite Records. The album reached No. 4 on the UK Pop Albums chart. Twice as Kool: The Hits of Kool & the Gang has also been certified gold in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry .
In the Heart is the fifteenth studio album by the funk/R&B band Kool & the Gang, released on November 21, 1983.Four singles were released from the album, with two singles becoming major hits on the US Hot 100.
Live at PJ's is the second live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, recorded at P.J.'s, a popular nightclub and music venue in West Hollywood, California from 1961 to 1973. The band's huge commercial success would not come until a few albums later.
"For over 50 years, Kool & the Gang have been essential innovators of funk, soul, disco, and R&B, creating rock 'n roll's most danceable anthems," reads the band's Rock Hall official bio.
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 ...