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)

Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group the Bar-Kays. [3] [4] It was their first album for Mercury Records. [5] It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk".

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk." [7] 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

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


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