“Kool and the Gang have gone bland,” the Detroit Free Press wrote in one typical piece on 1978’s Everybody’s Dancin’. “They’ve joined the disco lemmings … The edge has gone.” Robert “Kool” Bell, the ...
Kool & the Gang. Their 1969 debut LP fused jazz, soul, and funk into an unexpected hit, and by the mid-1970s, songs like “Funky Stuff,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Jungle Boogie,” and “Sp ...
The Kool and the Gang co-founder - who died in November 2023 ... “Dad always said, ‘Good songs tell a story.’ Heartache, pain, loss, joy, excitement, happiness—Dad experienced it all ...
Few artists have been sampled by hip-hop producers more than Kool & the Gang. George “Funky” Brown’s drums have formed the backdrop to countless rap classics, while the group’s horn section has, for ...