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Too Hot to Stop

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Too Hot to Stop
Studio album by
The Bar-Kays
ReleasedOctober 1976
Recorded1976
GenreFunk[1]
Length35:58
LabelMercury
SRM-1-1099[2]
ProducerAllen Jones
The Bar-Kays chronology
Coldblooded
(1974) 		Too Hot to Stop
(1976) 		Flying High on Your Love
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide[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.

Critical reception

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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

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  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

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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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