| Too Hot to Stop | ||||
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| Released | October 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Funk[1] | |||
| Length | 35:58 | |||
| Label | Mercury SRM-1-1099[2] | |||
| Producer | Allen Jones | |||
| The Bar-Kays chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| 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". The song is best known for playing at the start of the 2007 comedy film Superbad.
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
- "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
- "Cozy" (James Banks, Henderson Thigpen) - 3:36
- "Bang, Bang (Stick 'Em Up)" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:48
- "Spellbound" (Banks, Thigpen) - 5:05
- "Shake Your Rump to the Funk" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:52
- "You're So Sexy" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:53
- "Summer of Our Love" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 4:25
- "Whitehouseorgy" (Howard Redmond, L. Hendricks, R. CoCo, P. Kibbie) - 4:48
References
- ^ a b "Too Hot to Stop - Bar-Kays | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
- ^ Thompson, Dave (December 11, 2018). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440248917 – via Google Books.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 413.
- ^ a b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 28.
- ^ "Bar-Kays | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ Vincent, Rickey (April 15, 1996). Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312134990 – via Google Books.
- ^ Thompson, Dave (November 21, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306298 – via Google Books.
