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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. The first single, "Straight Ahead", failed to chart on the Hot 100, but the second single, "Joanna", soared to number two on the charts ...
Kool & the Gang is an American R&B, soul, and funk group formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964. Its founding members include brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell aka "Khalis Bayyan", Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, Sir Earl Toon, Woodrow "Woody" Sparrow, and Ricky Westfield.
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 ...
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 ]
George Brown, a drummer and songwriter who co-founded the band Kool & the Gang, died on Thursday. He was 74. The news was confirmed to CNN via email from Kool & the Gang’s publicist Jerry Digney.
1978–present. Labels. MCA Records. Musical artist. James"J.T." Warren Taylor(born August 16, 1953) is an American singer who achieved fame as the lead singer of Kool & the Gangbetween 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 ...
Kool & the Gang had 12 Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including the 1980 chart-topper “Celebration” as well as “Cherish,” “Get Down On It,” “Ladies Night” and “Joanna ...
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. Bell, along with Kool & the Gang members James "J.T." Taylor and ...