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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 ...
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. "Stand Up and Sing" was featured in 1982's The Pirate Movie .
The group changed their name several times. Settling on Kool & the Gang, the group signed to De-Lite Records and released their debut album, Kool and the Gang in 1969. The band's first mainstream success came with the release of their fourth album Wild and Peaceful (1973); it contained the US top-ten singles "Jungle Boogie" [1] and "Hollywood ...
"Get Down on It" is a 1981 song by American band Kool & the Gang. It was originally released on their Something Special album in 1981. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA. Record World called it a "kinetic dancer" and said that the "chant-like chorus hook is contagious." [4]
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.
In 1964, the brothers joined neighborhood friends Spike Mickens, Dennis Thomas, Ricky Westfield, George Brown, and Charles Smith to create a distinctive musical blend of jazz, soul, and funk. [12] At first calling themselves "The Jazziacs", the band went through various name changes—the New Dimensions, the Soul Town Band, and Kool & the ...
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Their debut album, Kool and the Gang, was released the following year. The band's first major hit came in 1973, with " Jungle Boogie ", which charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 . Their first number one hit single was " Spirit of the Boogie ", which was released in 1975.