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Get Down on It/Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It), De-Lite Records – DG2607: [7] No. Title Writer(s) Length; 1. "Get Down on It" James Taylor, Ronald Bell & Kool & the Gang: 3:33: 2. "Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)" Claydes Charles Smith, James Taylor & George Brown: 3:59
"Get Down on It" reached No. 4 on the R&B chart and No. 10 on the Pop chart. In addition, "Steppin' Out" ended up at No. 12 on the R&B chart and No. 89 on the Pop chart. [5] In the UK, the album reached #10, [6] becoming their first hit album there and most successful studio album of all, largely due to the success of the "Get Down On It" single.
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.
Ronald Nathan Bell (November 1, 1951 – September 9, 2020), also known as Khalis Bayyan, [1] was an American composer, singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, saxophonist and co-founding member of Kool & the Gang. The band recorded nine No. 1 R&B singles in the 1970s and 1980s, including its No. 1 pop single "Celebration". [2]
The single was the group's sixth number-one R&B single, reaching the top of the U.S. R&B chart for a single week and reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] Along with the tracks, "Get Down On It" and "Steppin' Out", "Take My Heart" went to the top 20 on the US dance charts.
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 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]