Too Hot to Stop

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Too Hot to Stop
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Studio album by
The Bar-Kays
ReleasedOctober 1976
Recorded1976
Genre Funk [1]
Length35:58
Label Mercury
SRM-1-1099 [2]
Producer Allen Jones
The Bar-Kays chronology
Coldblooded
(1974)		Too Hot to Stop
(1976)		 Flying High on Your Love
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group The Bar-Kays. [5] [6] It was their first album for Mercury Records. [7] It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk". "Too Hot To Stop, Pt. 1", the first song on the album, is best known for playing at the start of the 2007 comedy film Superbad .

Contents

Critical reception

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk." [4] Despite this review, "Too Hot to Stop" is considered by funk fans to be one of the very best Bar-Kays albums. Its content caused George Clinton, leader of Parliament-Funkadelic, to invite the Bar-Kays to be one of the opening acts on his band's legendary 1976-77 P-Funk Earth Tour.[ citation needed ]

Track list

  1. "Too Hot To Stop, Pt. 1" (Fred Freeman, Harry Nehls III, Larry Dodson, James Alexander, Michael Beard, Winston Stewart, Lloyd Smith, Charles Allen, Harvey Henderson, Frank Thompson) - 6:31
  2. "Cozy" (James Banks, Henderson Thigpen) - 3:36
  3. "Bang, Bang (Stick 'Em Up)" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:48
  4. "Spellbound" (Banks, Thigpen) - 5:05
  5. "Shake Your Rump to the Funk" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:52
  6. "You're So Sexy" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:53
  7. "Summer of Our Love" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 4:25
  8. "Whitehouseorgy" (Howard Redmond, L. Hendricks, R. CoCo, P. Kibbie) - 4:48

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References

  1. 1 2 "Too Hot to Stop - Bar-Kays | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Dave (December 11, 2018). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN   9781440248917 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 413.
  4. 1 2 The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 28.
  5. ↑ "Bar-Kays | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ↑ Vincent, Rickey (April 15, 1996). Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. Macmillan. ISBN   9780312134990 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Thompson, Dave (November 21, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780879306298 – via Google Books.


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