James J.T. Taylor's voice was so charismatic and pleasing to the ear. I love Kool & The Gang overall. 70s and 80s. Legends

Their music has stood the Test of Time. And they really need to be honored, awarded and placed in, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

@gregoryingram7561

Жыл бұрын

So true!! And what's sad about that is now almost all the original members are dead, they should have been in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame many, many years ago!!

@darhyllacylacy

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@playground2583

11 ай бұрын

ineed

It's nice to finally hear a positive story about one of the greats that didn't involve a lot of drama, fighting with each other, financial struggles, and mismanagement. They are true legends! Thank you for your sharing!

@NycBeauty

Жыл бұрын

Also, no public drug use …

Summer Madness and Get Down on It are such classics. Heavy on Summer Madness since it has been sampled throughout the years!

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Summer madness is a Classic and heavily sampled from Fresh Prince to Jhene Aiko. September Love is my ALL TIME favorite and so underrated.

@arnoldm.3639

Жыл бұрын

I Love Khalis's (Ronald's) Synthesizer Solo On Summer Madness, Especially The Live Version.

We don't have bands like this today

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219

Жыл бұрын

So true. Talent was so abundant back then. What happened?

@meeshafletcher

Жыл бұрын

Not at all, not Mainstream

@Ramy-ql3tr

Жыл бұрын

True. Instead we're drowned by rappers who can't sing.

@christ2994

Жыл бұрын

@@meeshafletcher l love you meesha

@amandadunn7678

Жыл бұрын

We don't have bands period anymore. I'm tired of that!

Kool and the Gang definitely deserves their flowers while they're still here

@markphilpot8734

Жыл бұрын

You got that right!

@ezedikeohamadike9003

Жыл бұрын

Deodato ruined the band. I like the first four records. Light of worlds was brilliant.

@gregoryingram7561

Жыл бұрын

It's a complete tragedy that they haven't been inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of Fame!!! What I remember is in the early eighties Kool and the gang would go back and forth with Hall and Oates scoring hit after hit! Hall and Oates are in the hall of Fame, Kool and the gang still waits.

@christophermitchum6829

Жыл бұрын

End of story...Kool ran Hollywood swingin'

@christophermitchum6829

Жыл бұрын

P.S.. Celebrate...ladies night...ran my band's lineup. Still Kool...💪😝😎

I love me some Kool & The Gang. Their music is timeless. 🥰

I love the song "Cherish" I just love it, every time I hear the song, it warms my heart..🥰🥰🥰

@robertpaciullo1540

Жыл бұрын

James taylor made this group the legendary band they became with his great voice and dancing. JT was a brilliant addition to the group in 1979

R. I. P. to some of the band members that we lost throughout the years 🙏🏾 Kool and The Gang should be rock ‘n roll hall of fame this band had decades of hit music 🎶.

@terry21651

2 ай бұрын

They were inducted into THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME this year 2024. Congrats to them.....well deserved

@olderface9939

12 күн бұрын

@@terry21651 YESSSIRRRR THE FAM IS HYPEDDD

One of my favourite bands ever. They were grounded and that reflected in their music and success. Impressive how they didn't allow any thieving managers to take control, which is where most groups and artists fail. They deserved all their success.

A legendary band to say the least. Kool and the Gang dominated the 1970's and 1980's. My favorite songs by them are Summer Madness, Too Hot, Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Get Down On It, You Can Have It, and Ladies Night.

@rochstan123

Жыл бұрын

Loved all of these songs, but Jones vs Jones is right up there.

@mysteria5705

Жыл бұрын

I'll also give "Let's Go Dancing" a nod.

@kimberlyjackson7266

Жыл бұрын

I still play summer madness ❤

@jasonallen3678

Жыл бұрын

@Kimberly Jackson I don't think any person who know good music, nomatter their color or creed could ever not love and enjoy Summer Madness..

@kimberlyjackson7266

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonallen3678 agree

I can’t believe no one mentioned “Dee Tee” Thomas’ daughter Michelle Thomas who was a Star in her own right ! She appeared on the Cosby Show as Theo’s girlfriend then she became a regular on Family Matters as Myra Monkhouse as Steve Urkles girlfriend ! She died at such a young age .She was absolutely gorgeous and when she walked into a room you couldn’t take your eyes off of her ! God bless you Michelle Thomas

@musicmanson

2 ай бұрын

I actually didn’t know that. RIP Michelle Thomas

Jungle Boogie, Get Down on it, Celebration, Joanna, Ladies Night, Fresh and Cherish are my favorite songs from Kool and the Gang

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219

Жыл бұрын

YEEESS Love ALL of them But add September Love. That's my favorite💖

@samuelwashington3646

Жыл бұрын

These guys were pure jazz until James Taylor joined.That,s when they got into r&b.

RIP to the ones that past away. They really did make classic music. Dang they made a lot of albums. They deserve all of they praise.

Omg I love me some kool and the gang, I’m 27 but my father use to play them so I grew up loving them. They make timeless music, they are legends. Thanks for doing this. ❤ My favs will always be cherish, celebration, get down on it, fresh and summer madness. ❤

@doreensika837

Жыл бұрын

@@workedfortheciawhenisoldrock awww that’s sweet thanks

@Nanbebe7

Жыл бұрын

My kids are your age and I took them to a KATG concert 3 years ago in GA they had a blast. They grew up on old school

@toneyisaiah3556

Жыл бұрын

I have the 45 single Hollywood Swinging on Delite records,1974.

@toneyisaiah3556

Жыл бұрын

I also have Jungle Boogie on a Seventies compilation CD.

@doreensika837

Жыл бұрын

@@Nanbebe7 you did your job mama.

Summer Madness is an always be a gem

Tonight, Fresh, Mislead and Open Sesame are some of my MANY FAVORITES from this BEYOND LEGENDARY band! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@shawnmotley1898

Жыл бұрын

Too Hot was also great.

@danavixen6274

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnmotley1898 👍🏾

@shawnmotley1898

Жыл бұрын

Those as well.

Summer Madness wasn't nothing but a masterpiece and my favorite Gang song along with Too Hot..

Summer Madness and Ladies Night are STILL my favorite Kook & The Gang songs. So very different in terms of genres, yet so classic and iconic.

@v.a.993

Жыл бұрын

Get Down on It is the ish too.

Summer Madness is my favorite song by Kool & the Gang

Can someone induct these legends into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame? Way overdue!

Thanks to my father for introducing me to this awesome band

Undoubtedly, cool and the gang left their footprints in the sands of time.

I've always loved this amazing band!

Caribbean Festival is one of the best hits from the 1975 album Spirit of Boogie

One of the few groups that stay grounded, love their music, glad to hear they’re still forming

This band pretty much owned the 80's and 90's with R&B and Pop music and yet there's not even a whisper about them being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If there were no pop bands in the hall I could understand but there are tons of pop and R&B artists in there so what gives??

@Thespeedrap

Жыл бұрын

That's crazy there's nothing about them around mainstream surfaces but yet Jay-Z and Eminem got one WTH.

@gregoryingram7561

Жыл бұрын

A freaking travesty!!! They should have been in the Hall of Fame year's ago! I will always love Elton John, who blasted the Rock and roll board members that decides who goes in, when the board kept overlooking Donna Summer the Queen of Disco! Elton called them out on it! Unfortunately when they finally choose her she died a year before her induction.

@chriso8193

Жыл бұрын

Hey...Teena Marie has no Grammy, no star on Hollywood Blvd neither does Rick James....plus, for some stupid reason....Rick james only got a Grammy for his sample on U Cant Touch This. Both made way more money than Kool & The Gang. Fire & Desire never got a nomination.

The archetype of music! Rest in power to the ones we lost! Thank You Kool & The Gang for all the jams y’all gave us!!! ❤❤❤❤

Ladies night is still my favourite...I remember when Michael jackson was in the audience singing the hook note ...just brilliant..

I'm a huge fan of this band. Their Jazz roots is what helped them be such great musicians. I'm more of a fan of their earlier jazz funk stuff but I'm a fan of their more popular stuff that came out around the time I was born in the late 70s as well. They were able to reinvent themselves over and over in different decades something that black acts did a lot back in the day.

One of the bands of all time

Kool & the gang was the reason why I started liking music that in the day when I was 10 years old late 80s.

Wow!! This was really nice. I was a kid when these songs were popular on radio as well playing at the basement parties my parents used to do . Those were the good ol days!!

Get Down on it was also heard in movies such as B.A.P.S. and This Christmas

Real music that will never die.

Summer Madness was heard in movies such as Baby Boy and You Got Served

We don't have bands like this anymore I wish we did

Summer Madness just puts me in a feel good mood like I'm watching the sun set on a hill in Cali lol that song is in a lane of its own! Get Down on it & Too Hot...forever classics!!

@twistoffate4791

Жыл бұрын

Same. There's just nothing like it!

I wouldn't doubt they're STILL receiving Celebrate song royalties. I hear that song everywhere...in malls, every New Year's on TV, etc.

My favorite band of all time

Those brothers were killing it

Rest in Power to the ones we lost. ✨✨. Still bumping their music 💥💥💥. Emergency!! E- mer- gen-cy!!! 🌋.

Great video. I teach seniors at a fitness center. And let me tell you, when Kool and the gang comes on, they always go crazy. Today we played “too hot” and they started dancing lol. This band is so talented.

@rheeryder2524

Жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

Get Down On It was my Auntie Anns favorite song 💚 RIP 🙏🏾

Iconic Discography from the legendary Kool and the Gang. Personal favourites 👉Take my Heart, When you say you love somebody you gatta let em know about it, Cherish, Hi da Hi/Ho.🥰🎇🎇🎇

Nothing like a band. There are a lot that are my faves. Kool & The Gang is mos def a fave. Plenty of parties got started with them. Cookouts too. Now when the elders request their music and they wanna dance what does that tell you?

One of my favorite groups saw them live in concert. They were the best.

I grew up hearing their songs play, thanks to my late dad. Celebration, Cherish and Get down on it were my favourites. Classic! 🤩✨❤️

"Open Sesame" is one of favorite songs or instrumental song from Kool and The Gang. I immediately start dancing soon as the best drops

@irisdi58

5 ай бұрын

Me too

Nothing can touch “Kool & the Gang Live at the Sex Machine” album. The musicianship, the dynamics…outstanding. Funky George on the drums…influenced an entire generation of drummers.

One of my all time favorite music bands!

Much Respect to real talent ❤️

One of my favor in the Clubs. Thank everyone of them to bring us the best…I still have Cassette players, Long Records and CD. Wish I had a Time Machine to bring them back…

artists of today will never garner the accolades bestowed on them like those from the 90s and back. ever. much respect to these legends

"Fresh" is STILL my JAM!!!!!

@michaelburton1924

Жыл бұрын

Me too🕺🏽

👍YES!! One of my favorite musical gangs!!! Shout out to Mr.KOOL BELL! He’s REALLY a Kool dude/very down to earth person!!!🥳😎🌞☺️✨🎵🎯💯👍

Love this band

@rodneysmith3759

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood Swinging!!

Love these stories so much

Kool and the Gang is the soundtrack to black BBQs😊💛🌻

I discovered them in the 80s when I found their cassette Tape EMERGENCY during recess at my elementary school and played that tape out!! Good times!!

Hollywood Swinging is my favorite. Loved these guys while they were more into funk music.

My favorite Kool and the gang hits are: Stepping Out and Straight Ahead. Kool and the Gang was really popular in Anglophone West Africa, particularly, Ghana. They actually visited Ghana and performed a live show in 1988/89 thereabout.

*One of if not the greatest band of all time.* *Unfortunately ever since lead singer James 'JT' Taylor left the band, no one could sing as good as him.*

I remember when they played jazz. Kool Jazz is a fabulous album

Thank you for this fitting tribute to one of the standout acts of the 70s and 80s (amongst such fierce competition from that golden era)❤️.

I’m a 90s baby and I just love their sound

I grew up with this band and loved it they could not do anything wrong playing that good music 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

Great information telling their story, but their best LP and one of the best LPs of all time was not mentioned. Their LP Something Special was truly something special. It's the one with Take My Heart, Get Down On it, and Be My lady. Started listening to them in the 70's, saw them live in the 80's, and plan to go see them live in 2023. There are no black R & B groups any more, but R & B will live forever because of talented musicians like Kool and the Gang. RIP departed band members.

I love Summer Madness song.I hate that B.E.T never gave them a lifetime achievement award yet or Rock and roll hall of Fame which feels so wrong.

I hope once they license their story, they mention Dennis Thomas' daughter too Michelle Thomas aka Justine from the Cosby Show/Myra from Family Matters.

I still play Summer Madness every Memorial day.

Their late 60's and early- mid 70's stuff is their best sound.

Simply legendary to say the least. Continuous peace to the members who passed away. Long May they continue 🙌🏾 🎶 ❤️

My mum absolutely loved when I played the early 80's kool & the gang in the early 80's.

One of the best concerts I've ever attended and it was free.

C and G one of the best R&B groups of the 80s #80smusic

Great legendary funk band one of a kind💿🎧🎶🎶💯

Who a group that held the test of time in beats and love. This was so soulful glad I subscribed.

Another great video and band. You always do a really good job!

Fresh and Tonight were my jams when I was a kid and I loved the music videos. I can still picture the Solid Gold dancers jamming to both songs in the weekly countdown. Love this Channel!!!!

I heard somewhere that kool and the game is the most sample group and hip-hop ever

One of my fav funk bands. They inspired me to start playing bass

Thank You so much for all of your hard work to put videos like this together! 🌟. 💫. They had some great music man!

Yeess Love Kool & the Gang!!🙌🏾!!! Thank you for the video!💕September Love, Cherish, Too hot, Joanna, Ladies Night my faves💕 Can you do one on HeatWave?

I will celebrate year 64 with Kool and the Gang in Vegas 2024 ❤🔥

Finally it's 2024 and they are going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So glad they included J.T. Taylor that beautiful voice of the band. Sad it took this long....only Robert Bell and J.T. Taylor are here to receive the award. ❤

Legendary! And another hot one.... Thank you for this also hopefully gives the new genartion great insights as to how to do it as a band. Love these! Keep em. Coming ❤️❤️❤️🔥👍🏾💪🏾

One of the most difficult metaphysical human emotional traits to appreciate within ones character , and this band did all this and much more the music spices and the lyrics and voices a perfectly marinate blend Its undeniable you're either KooL or you're Not

There was also ladies rap sample by Missy Elliot

Tonight might be the best song of the 80s . Such a glorious fusion of rock & soul !!

Summer Madness/Winter Sadness will live on FOREVER!!!

The group had been together for a long time since the 1960s.

We'll alright! They are still great. GOD Bless you fellas!

Oh yes! Back in the day when pop music was played with real musical instruments, not computer programs. It was so much better then.

They should be in the Rock in Roll Hall of Fame

@darrylmilling2747

3 күн бұрын

They will be this year

Kool & The Gang are one of my favorite groups of all time!! I was a teenager when Funky Stuff, Hollywood Swinging, Jungle Boogie etc. came out!! They had one of the best brass sections in the business!! I still listen to their music till this day!!!!!

I love Kool In The Gang❤.Cherish is my favorite song.

I followed the group in the late 60"s. they played mostly instrumental songs back in the day. I will always love them.

Fabulous group

Amazing story of some seriously talented people. Great video as always😊