Their debut album spawned their first Billboard R&B charted single Kool & the Gang and later Let the Music Take Your Mind.In 1970, their audacious sophomore set Live at the Sex Machine peaked at #6 on Billboard’s R&B chart and yielded three hit singles: Funky Man, Who’s Gonna ...
“Still Kool” is the 25th entry for Kool & the Gang on the R&B/Hip-Hop album chart. If you want to know more about Kool & the Gang and check out their top 20 hits according to chart performance on the Hot 100, I’ve added the group to the artists’ section in the forthcoming ...
The last original members of three-time GRAMMY-winning group Kool & The Gang discuss stories behind their classic hits, hip-hop samples, and how they kept the creativity going on their new album.
NEWS HISTORY MUSIC CONCERTS STORE WHAT'S NEW CONTACTNewsCelebrate good timesYOUNGSTOWN — Friends, family and fans gathered in the community room of the Covelli Centre on Saturday afternoon to celebrate Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & The Gang as he and his brother, Ronald Bell, were named the...
“I guess they finally thought about Kool & the Gang and our history, everything we’ve done and that it was about time,”Bell said. The challenge now is trying to condense all that history into the time they are allotted to perform — 7 minutes. ...
Herc played, his influence with the music, the songs, the beats that he chose, he knew he had something special there. He dominated the 1970s and created this thing that we call hip-hop," Cindy Campbell told GRAMMY.com in a recent phone interview, with Herc later joining the ...
“Kool” Bell and his brother Ronald. The Gang’s first chart success came with 1973’sWild and Peacefulalbum that spun off the hits “Jungle Boogie” and “Hollywood Swinging.” Kool & the Gang continued to chart in the ensuing decades, and they’ll be atRivers Casinoin the new event ...
24. Peter, Paul and Mary It’s impossible to write the history of 1960’s folk rock without including Peter, Paul and Mary. The trio’s intricate harmonies and poetic lyrics made them an immediate success. Their 1962 self-titled debut album went double-platinum thanks to hits like “Lemon...
Blink-182 has unveiled two new songs fromOne More Time ..., their first album with singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge in more than a decade. The title track tackles some of the most major events in the band's history, such as Travis Barker's 2008 plane crash and Mark Hoppus' more recen...
Disco was in full swing when Donna Summer released her magnum opus in April 1979. A sprawling double record that crossed over genres and remained on the chart for nearly a year (six of those weeks at No. 1),Bad Girlswas both a pinnacle of the genre in album form and one of its last...