Child please I was beyond blessed to have been young in the 70's. I went to shows, concerts and out dancing at least once every weekend. The music was phenomenal and we were free and unembarrassed to dance and jive. Both girls and guys. Disco balls spinning, wild funky clothes and leaving your cocktails on the tables uncovered with no worry. Man those were the days to be young. Those were my days and I'm so glad they were.
Amber, Kool and the Gang have two sounds, smooth R&B of the 80's and funk of the 70's. The real difference between their two distinct sounds was due to the addition of their lead singer James "JT" Taylor. But we loved them regardless of the era. We jammed to their sound, along with other groups like EW&F, Gap Band, Cameo, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Parliament Funkadelic; just to name a few. These groups had the ability to get down and funky on one song, then mellow you out with smooth R&B tunes on the next tract. That's why we loved and still love them so much.❤❤❤
Decade of the 70s had so many good groups and performers… We had such a good time with all this great music and yes we went out and danced! And the memories just keep us forever grateful😊❤❤
These guys were big on radio straight out of the gate with "Jungle Boogie". I remember it when I was a young teenager. Over the years these guys were always on the radio somewhere with lots of hits. The shows like American Bandstand, Soul Train, etc had a selection process by going to areas where they were filming and holding auditions. People would dance and they would select people from the groups who were dancing. Many of them stayed on for an entire season or several shows and people in the audience actually got to know their names.
You know where you can still go today & not see anyone on their cell phone....the roller skating rink. And these ppl. Are jamming & popping & locking to the music.
In middle school and high school all my friends watched American Bandstand and then Soul Train on Saturday mornings. That’s how you learned all the latest dances and saw your favorite musicians. Friday night sleepovers always included watching the Midnight Special,
Their was: American Bandstand, Dance Fever, Huggy Boy Show, Soul Train, Midnight Special, Art Laboe Shoe. We had it all, just Dance, Dance, Dance! I attended the American Bandstand Show in 1982 or 83.
I'm a New Yorker and saw them perform at The Felt Forum a long with Kashif, Smokey Robinson, The Hughes Corporation. When music and concerts were the TRUTH
60s and 70s produce some of the greatest's music of all time. In fact it was so great that these artists now are still sampling it's vibe. So glad I I came up and was able to see greatness live.
Need to see Prince’s life version of “Play that Funky Music” with “Hollywood Swinging”. Incredible performance with Prince playing guitar and bass guitar.
Thanx for checking that out. That was old Kool & the Gang before JT became the lead singer and before "Ladies Night" that's when everything changed for them and they went pop (don't blame them)...they had at least 3 different phases. Two other "original" bangers are "Jungle Boogie" and "Open Sesame". Great band!
Please react to Kool & The Gang's very FIRST big hit "Jungle Boogie". That was the best and my favorite out of all of their songs! I was about 12 years old when it came out.
Yes! That was it was their first big hit and my very favorite song from them. The only problem with this performance is that it's way too SHORT. I hated that about the performance on Soul Train.
Love Kool & The Gang ,also I grew up watching Soul Train and American Bandstand every Saturday mornings that's how I got my dance moves and fashion style then I would go shopping with my mom to buy all my school clothing to match the styles from the shows ,yes back in the 1970's they were the best years of my life everything was kool back then.
Kool & The Gang were performers at my Grad Night at Disney World in 1980! Also saw KC & The Sunshine Band and The Brothers Johnson there as well! What a night!!!
I was going through that puberty stage. When I had a soul train gone and let me tell you this brother. Hi all day I paid some attention to do so. Yeah, I have so trying dinosaurs. With that round front and round back. They had the Ram they had it swinging. Yeah, US glowed to the TV brother. Was you is i'm bored on that train if it was i'm bored😅😅😅😅😅😅
Do you need to go walk? Some of the episodes of that brother. That was before the week. Before the weeks the eyelashes of the operations. Everything is so just natural workers so just real
Bass player here. Hollywood Swinging was one of my favorite songs. Two measures into it and the dance floor was full. We did about a 10 minute version of it. Thanks Kool and the Gang!
@@alleykeosheyan4779 Robert "Kool" Bell & James Alexander of (The Bar Kays),...two of my favorite bass players, for a reason you might not expect! The two bass players "prove" that you can be authentically (funky) without playing a bunch of dazzling, fancy notes! If you feel that Funk, you can find a basic line that will punch the whole song up! THAT'S a gift! 🎸
I lived in a small town. I did watch soul train America in band stadium, don kirscherners rock concert and midnight special. This was until I was an adult.
Oh yeah, when Kool & The Gang was still cool. Tracks like "Give it Up", "Funky Stuff", and "Music is the Message" continued to explore the path paved by James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, and Parliament to name a few. I watched Soul Train every Saturday morning on WPIX, channel 11, out of New York, and would likely have been where I first heard this classic. Great upload. Oh, and "Funky Granny" will have you smiling ear to ear, guaranteed.
BTW, The rapper, Mase, sampled this song for his hit single, "Feel So Good" (1997). Jay, I know you've said you are a Hip-Hop head, so you may be familiar with that song.
When this song was out, some friends and I drove cross-country. For 5 days we heard this song several times a day. The other song we were hearing was Chakha Khan "Tell Me Something Good" and "Radar Love"
I first heard, Tell Me Something Good the same way, picking up WGN Chicago across about 5 states when my family was driving to Pennsylvania for vacation. It blew my mind.
I grew up watching Soul Train and American Banstand on tv every Saturday morning. They had the hottest artists of the time & so fun to watch the dancers. The Soul Train dance line was a highlight.
We only knew living in the present moment, no distractions. I didn't realize how fleeting that would be, how precious that was. I'm grateful to have been a teenager in the '70s ❤
Kool & The Gang, Cool! Another group that many of their songs are always on the B.B.Q. and Party playlist. "Jungle Boogie" is a must and all other suggestions in the comments are great for the future. Two other songs by them I must add since they were not mentioned are "Ooh La La Let's Go Dancing" and "Open Sesame". "Summer Madness" by them is a excellent and wonderful experience. Now another push for KC & The Sunshine Band and their songs "Get Down Tonight" and "That's The Way (I Like It)". Both have been suggested so many times. Lou Rawls "See You When I Git There", George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" and Peter Brown's "Dance With Me" are wonderful and you would enjoy them, as well. They have been suggested before also. So many great jams to move and get funky. You have so much yet to hear. Great reaction by the way!
AMERICAN BANDSTAND and SOUL TRAIN were usually shown on Saturdays in Southern California, where I grew up, usually between 11 am and 2 pm. While AMERICAN BANDSTAND was usually carried on ABC affiliate stations, I seem to recall that SOUL TRAIN was syndicated, so it was often on an independent local station rather than a network affiliate, although that varied from market to market. Sometimes they were in direct competition with each other in certain areas but usually we could easily watch both shows if we wanted to. The Midnight Special, as well as Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert, however, were late night programs that usually aired around midnight or 1 am, usually on either a Friday or Saturday night. I seem to remember that they aired in the L.A. market on the NBC affiliate, if I’m not mistaken. They often followed Saturday Night Live from 1975 and onward.
I saw (and met members of) Kool & THe Gang several times when they performed at the old Sugar Shack of Boston, back in the day. Can't beat those live performances and it's sad there will never be another era in music like that. And am glad I was able to be a part of it.
You know you mentioned how back then nobody’s heads are in their phones and they’re all into it….and that made me realize that in my 46 years on this rock all my best memories come before the advent of social media. Maybe a coincidence, but maybe not.
I was ready for Soul Train EVERY Saturday! That was the highlight of my week. That's where I got exposed to all my favorite artists of the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. Nothing beat actually seeing them perform, singing and dancing. That's even how I learned a lot of dance moves. I loved the Soul Train Line where two lines of people were on both sides and people took turns coming off the lines and doing dances down the middle. Soul Train and the original MTV back in the 80's really formed my childhood from around 9 years old and up through my teenage years. I truly loved those years. There's nothing like either one now.
Seeing the Soul Train logo reminded me of an excellent track by a New Artist to you that you'll (we'll) really enjoy. The song is T.S.O.P. by MFSB. (Ok, so that translates to The Sound Of Philadelphia, and MFSB stands for Mother Father Sister Brother, but they just go as MFSB.) Now TSOP has a history with Soul Train, as a form of it was the theme song for Soul Train for a number of years. It's a great tune, a bit swing, a bit funky, a great dance tune, you'll both (and all of us) will love it.
This is a major banger! Kool and the Gang was always a good time! As a kid, I used to watch Soul Train and American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons after cartoons! We had remote controls but they were very basic, on/off and volume controls 😂! ❤❤
Love this song! Was the used in the movie Roll Bounce with Lil Bow wow and Nick Cannon about a 70s roller skate crew. Lots of killer 70s funk! You’d love it! Good movie for Friday reactions too.
Now you 2 need to react to an early rap hip hop band name The Sugarhill Gang. Awesome and fun music. "Rapper's Delight" was released in 1979 and was the first rap song to be played on the radio.
Still two huge hits from Kool and the Gang you haven't checked out yet. Celebration (played at almost every wedding reception for the last 40 years) and Jungle Boogie,
My Momma would call me into her bedroom from the front room, be hollering my name at the top of her lungs... just to ask me to turn the channel on her TV so she could watch her A-Team, The Love Boat and Fantasy Island; and fall asleep on Eyewitness News until the station went off the air for the night.
American Bandstand, the show that started showing teens dancing to popular music on tv, started here in Philadelphia, when my parents were teens in the 50's! It became so popular that the ABC network moved the show to L.A. They used to have reunions and special appearances by the original dancers, but by now most of them have passed on. Later in the 80's there was another local dance show, Dancin' on Air!! I knew people from my high school that got on it!! The same thing happened, it got very popular and was on the USA network. The most famous person to come out of it from that time is KELLY RIPA!!!
I recall one called Dance Party USA on the USA network, when cable tv was still fairly new, my friends and I got on to a weeks worth of filming, when they had the show at the Water Park
I would’ve thought Dick Clark was the most successful personality to come out of the dance-show craze. Not as a dancer, of course, but he owes his storied career to American Bandstand.
Great thumbnail, guys: HollyWEED Swingin’…. Actually it’s just regular old HOLLYWOOD Swingin’. Fantastic tune from the 70s. Featured in the wonderful film ROLL BOUNCE (2005), which you should see on your movie channel. It’s a great film.
Thank you Jay and Amber for the love and appreciation of Soul Train and other shows like that. I was too young in the 70s to be on Soul Train and American Bandstand but always watched every Saturday afternoon! It was a carefree time for most even though the Vietnam War was going on and other issues of that period. But if you were a kid, you were oblivious. You should definitely check out the Soul Train lines especially from the 70s. The fashions and dances were great!! Oh yeah, 'Open Sesame' is another favorite from Kool and the Gang!
This was the first Kool and the Gang song I heard at age 19, in 1974, and to this day remains my favourite. It brings back great memories of that time in my life which was also the best era for music
Amber & Jay, here are some other great songs by Kool and the Gang to react to: "Too Hot", "Celebration", "Take My Heart", "Hi de Hi, Hi de Ho", "Emergency", "Misled", and "Love Festival".
@@themajicman745it wasn't pop music. It was R&B. "Too Hot " was one of the smoothest R&B tracks out there . They have an immense catalog. Bands evolve. No need to be a snob about it.
That song came out in 1979 on their Ladies Night" album when they crossed over to boring pop music. They even admitted that their true fans were upset with them for crossing over from funk music to crossover pop music and they understood and it was only for business purposes......MONEY!@@GonRogue-85
In 1971, my school took me on a school trip to the World Famous Apollo Theater. The Apollo was just a few blocks from my school, and on that school trip, are class, along with a few other classes,saw that Kool And The Gang. Remember, there are layers to Kool And The Gang. I’ll forget that day.🎸🥁🎼🎵🎶👍🏾
So glad you got to this one! Kool & The Gang had 25 Top Ten R&B hits, 12 Top Ten singles. They started out as Funk and shifted gears in the late 70's a smoother pop sound and sold a TON of records. 23 studio albums, 70 singles, and over 70 million albums sold worldwide.
They went and did the early funk stuff like this, jungle boogie etc, the 80s funk as well and then they did a song called summer madness which is completely different but a very cool vibe song as well.
"Jungle Boogie" is the K&THG song you need to do next. One of the most explosive basslines ever!
I second this.
Absolutely COOL!!! ;-)
It’s funny that Jay said they were going to get into some Funky Stuff, and I thought, “No, they aren’t going to do THAT song”! 😆🤣😆
@@walterrutherford8321 That would've been a happy accident.
@@Serai3I third it!
Never missed Soul Train every Saturday. That bass line just makes you groove. Everybody getting funky on the dance floor - those were the days.
So train was the business back in the day.
Soul Train on TV and Jet magazine on the living room table
The LEGENDARY Iconic Kool and his Gang ❤❤❤😊
Soul Train Jet Magazine and Midnight Special. Yaaasss 💯💯💯
Daaanng! I'm an American of Mexican descent and totally surprised this is the first time you've heard this jam!
Child please I was beyond blessed to have been young in the 70's. I went to shows, concerts and out dancing at least once every weekend. The music was phenomenal and we were free and unembarrassed to dance and jive. Both girls and guys. Disco balls spinning, wild funky clothes and leaving your cocktails on the tables uncovered with no worry. Man those were the days to be young. Those were my days and I'm so glad they were.
Not when Cosby was around
I have two friends that danced on Soul Train from time to time. They are both in their late 60s now and we laugh about it now.
By the way Soul Train started in Chicago then moved to LA in 1971
Saw them at the Skyway Nightclub on 75th and Stony Island Ave. They weren't big yet.
Saw kool at Westbury, ny 1974 also,only white man to give standing ovation for this song. Donald bell acknowledged me.that was cool😊
I never missed "Soul Train" on Saturday mornings. It was the greatest. Who didn't love watching everyone bust out their best moves on the dance line?
Yes. Me too....and it came on right after the Jackson 5 cartoon on Saturdays. LOL
Great band and song! Funk classic.
Amber, Kool and the Gang have two sounds, smooth R&B of the 80's and funk of the 70's. The real difference between their two distinct sounds was due to the addition of their lead singer James "JT" Taylor. But we loved them regardless of the era. We jammed to their sound, along with other groups like EW&F, Gap Band, Cameo, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Parliament Funkadelic; just to name a few. These groups had the ability to get down and funky on one song, then mellow you out with smooth R&B tunes on the next tract. That's why we loved and still love them so much.❤❤❤
They also had a jazz era (their live albums of the early 70s)
Decade of the 70s had so many good groups and performers… We had such a good time with all this great music and yes we went out and danced! And the memories just keep us forever grateful😊❤❤
Yes! A time that will never come again. 😊💛
Couldn’t agree with you more.
Thats what im talking about right here. Its been a minute. Music back then was so much better! I dont care who you were...we all jammed to this!
These guys were big on radio straight out of the gate with "Jungle Boogie". I remember it when I was a young teenager. Over the years these guys were always on the radio somewhere with lots of hits.
The shows like American Bandstand, Soul Train, etc had a selection process by going to areas where they were filming and holding auditions. People would dance and they would select people from the groups who were dancing. Many of them stayed on for an entire season or several shows and people in the audience actually got to know their names.
You know where you can still go today & not see anyone on their cell phone....the roller skating rink. And these ppl. Are jamming & popping & locking to the music.
In middle school and high school all my friends watched American Bandstand and then Soul Train on Saturday mornings. That’s how you learned all the latest dances and saw your favorite musicians. Friday night sleepovers always included watching the Midnight Special,
Guys...read the title on your thumbnail 😂😂😂😂 Hollyweed Swinging 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Jungle Boogie" yes!
Their was: American Bandstand, Dance Fever, Huggy Boy Show, Soul Train, Midnight Special, Art Laboe Shoe. We had it all, just Dance, Dance, Dance! I attended the American Bandstand Show in 1982 or 83.
I'm a New Yorker and saw them perform at The Felt Forum a long with Kashif, Smokey Robinson, The Hughes Corporation. When music and concerts were the TRUTH
I'm a 69 year old woman, but I grew up watching American Bandstand and Soul Train. Thats how I learned to dance.
They were a funk group until the eighty, also a similar group call Slave with a song call SLIDE , with one of the best guitar solo ever.
I loved Snapshot and Watching You also.
They started as a jazz group remember "Summer Madness"
funk, disco, pop...
OMG! My youth…I love this group. I watched Soul Train every Saturday. They got the FUNK!!!
60s and 70s produce some of the greatest's music of all time. In fact it was so great that these artists now are still sampling it's vibe. So glad I I came up and was able to see greatness live.
In Detroit we had a dance show called The Scene!
I used to play softball with a girl whose nickname was Hollywood, we’d sing this song each time she got up to bat ❤
Need to see Prince’s life version of “Play that Funky Music” with “Hollywood Swinging”. Incredible performance with Prince playing guitar and bass guitar.
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A lot of Kool & the Gang's early stuff in the 70s was sure fire funk-Spirit Of The Boogie, Funky stuff, Jungle Boogie.
These youngins should've been there when this was happening in real time in the 70's........👍
🎶 Kool and the Gang most "Funky Jam" is "Jungle Boogie" 👍
Saw them in concert in 1977, they were such a high energy group.
were they mainly performing songs from their “open sesame” album at that time?
This was the 1970's when Kool & The Gang was more of a funk band.
Thanx for checking that out. That was old Kool & the Gang before JT became the lead singer and before "Ladies Night" that's when everything changed for them and they went pop (don't blame them)...they had at least 3 different phases. Two other "original" bangers are "Jungle Boogie" and "Open Sesame". Great band!
We had great music shows to watch. We were so lucky.
We all did the bump to this song at the clubs!! Good times!!
Please react to Kool & The Gang's very FIRST big hit "Jungle Boogie". That was the best and my favorite out of all of their songs! I was about 12 years old when it came out.
Another vote for their Jungle Boogie. I think there's a clip of that from the Midnight Special.
I'LL VOTE FOR THAT!! GREAT TUNE!!!
Yes! That was it was their first big hit and my very favorite song from them. The only problem with this performance is that it's way too SHORT. I hated that about the performance on Soul Train.
Love Kool & The Gang ,also I grew up watching Soul Train and American Bandstand every Saturday mornings that's how I got my dance moves and fashion style then I would go shopping with my mom to buy all my school clothing to match the styles from the shows ,yes back in the 1970's they were the best years of my life everything was kool back then.
Kool & The Gang were performers at my Grad Night at Disney World in 1980! Also saw KC & The Sunshine Band and The Brothers Johnson there as well! What a night!!!
If you love to dance, there you go, that's me. Growing up in the 70's at was a special time. Side note, hand tickets for Home Free, this week. Thanks
I was going through that puberty stage. When I had a soul train gone and let me tell you this brother. Hi all day I paid some attention to do so. Yeah, I have so trying dinosaurs. With that round front and round back. They had the Ram they had it swinging. Yeah, US glowed to the TV brother. Was you is i'm bored on that train if it was i'm bored😅😅😅😅😅😅
Do you need to go walk? Some of the episodes of that brother. That was before the week. Before the weeks the eyelashes of the operations. Everything is so just natural workers so just real
You got me wanting to go watch Your Soul. Train episode😊😅😅😅
rob squad here's another Kool and the gang song - jungle boogie.
Yes, I've wanted them to react to that one.
Bass player here. Hollywood Swinging was one of my favorite songs. Two measures into it and the dance floor was full. We did about a 10 minute version of it. Thanks Kool and the Gang!
Bass player here, too! This and "For The Love of Money" by the O'Jays got me started down the path!
@@alleykeosheyan4779 Robert "Kool" Bell & James Alexander of (The Bar Kays),...two of my favorite bass players, for a reason you might not expect! The two bass players "prove" that you can be authentically (funky) without playing a bunch of dazzling, fancy notes! If you feel that Funk, you can find a basic line that will punch the whole song up! THAT'S a gift! 🎸
I actually saw them live, several times, at a club (back in the day) called The Sugar Shack of Boston. Got to meet the band as well......pure talent.
I grew up with Kool and the Gang in the 70’s and their early stuff was funky. Next Jungle Boogie is a must!
I second the requests for Jungle Boogie!
Soul Train came on around noon on Saturday. midnight special would come on Fridays at midnight.
You can't NOT dance to this song! My fave Kool and the Gang song. So much fun.
This song got everyone up on the dance floor at a house party... still does!
So confident you guys would love “Misled” so funky, so dancey, such a fun song by Kool and Gang, love for you to react to it next!
Mid-80s underrated classic. Misled is one of my favorites by them.
I lived in a small town. I did watch soul train America in band stadium, don kirscherners rock concert and midnight special. This was until I was an adult.
My all time favorite band, their entire body of work from the 70s and beyond is all amazing. Was blessed to see them twice in concert.
Oh yeah, when Kool & The Gang was still cool. Tracks like "Give it Up", "Funky Stuff", and "Music is the Message" continued to explore the path paved by James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, and Parliament to name a few. I watched Soul Train every Saturday morning on WPIX, channel 11, out of New York, and would likely have been where I first heard this classic. Great upload. Oh, and "Funky Granny" will have you smiling ear to ear, guaranteed.
I was there every time it was on (TV). Soul Train and American Bandstand never missed a show if I could help it. Style , Fashion and Music
Wow thank for this one I used to roller to that song . And I'm 60 and still dancing to this jam. Keep up the good work. Love you guys.
There's never been anything cooler than Soul Train. It's still the champion.
Solid Gold and American Bandstand were also great.
BTW, The rapper, Mase, sampled this song for his hit single, "Feel So Good" (1997). Jay, I know you've said you are a Hip-Hop head, so you may be familiar with that song.
When this song was out, some friends and I drove cross-country. For 5 days we heard this song several times a day. The other song we were hearing was Chakha Khan "Tell Me Something Good" and "Radar Love"
I first heard, Tell Me Something Good the same way, picking up WGN Chicago across about 5 states when my family was driving to Pennsylvania for vacation. It blew my mind.
Omg Tell Me Something Good is str🔥
I would watch Soul Train every Saturday & dance with the show. Loved it!!!
I grew up watching Soul Train and American Banstand on tv every Saturday morning. They had the hottest artists of the time & so fun to watch the dancers. The Soul Train dance line was a highlight.
I bet I’ve danced a million miles to this song! LOVE Kool and the Gang.❤️
hollywood swinging was sampled on Mase - feel so good
We only knew living in the present moment, no distractions. I didn't realize how fleeting that would be, how precious that was. I'm grateful to have been a teenager in the '70s ❤
Kool & The Gang, Cool! Another group that many of their songs are always on the B.B.Q. and Party playlist. "Jungle Boogie" is a must and all other suggestions in the comments are great for the future. Two other songs by them I must add since they were not mentioned are "Ooh La La Let's Go Dancing" and "Open Sesame". "Summer Madness" by them is a excellent and wonderful experience. Now another push for KC & The Sunshine Band and their songs "Get Down Tonight" and "That's The Way (I Like It)". Both have been suggested so many times. Lou Rawls "See You When I Git There", George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" and Peter Brown's "Dance With Me" are wonderful and you would enjoy them, as well. They have been suggested before also. So many great jams to move and get funky. You have so much yet to hear. Great reaction by the way!
AMERICAN BANDSTAND and SOUL TRAIN were usually shown on Saturdays in Southern California, where I grew up, usually between 11 am and 2 pm. While AMERICAN BANDSTAND was usually carried on ABC affiliate stations, I seem to recall that SOUL TRAIN was syndicated, so it was often on an independent local station rather than a network affiliate, although that varied from market to market. Sometimes they were in direct competition with each other in certain areas but usually we could easily watch both shows if we wanted to.
The Midnight Special, as well as Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert, however, were late night programs that usually aired around midnight or 1 am, usually on either a Friday or Saturday night. I seem to remember that they aired in the L.A. market on the NBC affiliate, if I’m not mistaken. They often followed Saturday Night Live from 1975 and onward.
KTLA 5 Sssssssoooooooouuuuuuulll 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃train......
That was the time, AB was on ABC and Soul Train was on WGN in Chicago.
I saw (and met members of) Kool & THe Gang several times when they performed at the old Sugar Shack of Boston, back in the day. Can't beat those live performances and it's sad there will never be another era in music like that. And am glad I was able to be a part of it.
This is the jam that stays on my playlist!
You know you mentioned how back then nobody’s heads are in their phones and they’re all into it….and that made me realize that in my 46 years on this rock all my best memories come before the advent of social media. Maybe a coincidence, but maybe not.
I was ready for Soul Train EVERY Saturday! That was the highlight of my week. That's where I got exposed to all my favorite artists of the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. Nothing beat actually seeing them perform, singing and dancing. That's even how I learned a lot of dance moves. I loved the Soul Train Line where two lines of people were on both sides and people took turns coming off the lines and doing dances down the middle. Soul Train and the original MTV back in the 80's really formed my childhood from around 9 years old and up through my teenage years. I truly loved those years. There's nothing like either one now.
Makes me wanna bump!😄😄
Soul Train dancers had to audition to be on the show. Many of them stayed on the show for years.
Seeing the Soul Train logo reminded me of an excellent track by a New Artist to you that you'll (we'll) really enjoy. The song is T.S.O.P. by MFSB. (Ok, so that translates to The Sound Of Philadelphia, and MFSB stands for Mother Father Sister Brother, but they just go as MFSB.) Now TSOP has a history with Soul Train, as a form of it was the theme song for Soul Train for a number of years. It's a great tune, a bit swing, a bit funky, a great dance tune, you'll both (and all of us) will love it.
Same album ( 73) best &
funkiest Track." Funky Stuff"
Absolutely an essential
reaction!!
They had so many jams! Jungle Boogie!
You must do “The Jam “by Graham Central Station!
Every time I hear this song I think of the commercial breaks for Letterman.
This is a major banger! Kool and the Gang was always a good time! As a kid, I used to watch Soul Train and American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons after cartoons! We had remote controls but they were very basic, on/off and volume controls 😂! ❤❤
I use to go to alot of concerts by in the day. I did get a chance to see Kool and the Gang in person.
Love this major funk classic of theirs! This and "Jungle Boogie" are two of my all-time favorite KNTG funk tunes. Thanks for this!
Love this song! Was the used in the movie Roll Bounce with Lil Bow wow and Nick Cannon about a 70s roller skate crew. Lots of killer 70s funk! You’d love it! Good movie for Friday reactions too.
Now you 2 need to react to an early rap hip hop band name The Sugarhill Gang. Awesome and fun music. "Rapper's Delight" was released in 1979 and was the first rap song to be played on the radio.
Soul Train was taped in Chicago and then LA. Dancers got selected to be on the show.
Still two huge hits from Kool and the Gang you haven't checked out yet. Celebration (played at almost every wedding reception for the last 40 years) and Jungle Boogie,
My Momma would call me into her bedroom from the front room, be hollering my name at the top of her lungs...
just to ask me to turn the channel on her TV so she could watch her A-Team, The Love Boat and Fantasy Island; and fall asleep on Eyewitness News until the station went off the air for the night.
American Bandstand, the show that started showing teens dancing to popular music on tv, started here in Philadelphia, when my parents were teens in the 50's! It became so popular that the ABC network moved the show to L.A. They used to have reunions and special appearances by the original dancers, but by now most of them have passed on. Later in the 80's there was another local dance show, Dancin' on Air!! I knew people from my high school that got on it!! The same thing happened, it got very popular and was on the USA network. The most famous person to come out of it from that time is KELLY RIPA!!!
I recall one called Dance Party USA on the USA network, when cable tv was still fairly new, my friends and I got on to a weeks worth of filming, when they had the show at the Water Park
I would’ve thought Dick Clark was the most successful personality to come out of the dance-show craze. Not as a dancer, of course, but he owes his storied career to American Bandstand.
@@Sportsref13 When Dancin' On Air moved to the USA network, that was it's new name.
@@scottNNJ I was talking about Dancin' on Air, Dick Clark needs no introduction, haha!
Great thumbnail, guys: HollyWEED Swingin’…. Actually it’s just regular old HOLLYWOOD Swingin’. Fantastic tune from the 70s. Featured in the wonderful film ROLL BOUNCE (2005), which you should see on your movie channel. It’s a great film.
More soul moving funk: Don Blackman - "*Heart's Desire", "Never Miss A Thing", "Holding You, Loving You", "Yabba Dabba Do". 😁😁😁
KOOL & THE GANG had a fuckton of hits. Jungle Boogie, Ladies Night, Celebration, Too Hot, Fresh... Come on.
Kool & the gang are so great ❤
Thank you Jay and Amber for the love and appreciation of Soul Train and other shows like that. I was too young in the 70s to be on Soul Train and American Bandstand but always watched every Saturday afternoon! It was a carefree time for most even though the Vietnam War was going on and other issues of that period. But if you were a kid, you were oblivious. You should definitely check out the Soul Train lines especially from the 70s. The fashions and dances were great!! Oh yeah, 'Open Sesame' is another favorite from Kool and the Gang!
This was the first Kool and the Gang song I heard at age 19, in 1974, and to this day remains my favourite. It brings back great memories of that time in my life which was also the best era for music
Jungle Boogie is a MUST by K&TG!!
I never missed Soul Train...through the 60s and 70s it was on Saturday afternoons...so many great performances!
Amber & Jay, here are some other great songs by Kool and the Gang to react to: "Too Hot", "Celebration", "Take My Heart", "Hi de Hi, Hi de Ho", "Emergency", "Misled", and "Love Festival".
That stuff is when they did pop music and we want to hear their funk music of the 70's.
You can't leave out Summer Madness. A very under-rated instrumental classic. Just like The Commodores "CEBU"
@@themajicman745it wasn't pop music. It was R&B. "Too Hot " was one of the smoothest R&B tracks out there .
They have an immense catalog. Bands evolve. No need to be a snob about it.
That song came out in 1979 on their Ladies Night" album when they crossed over to boring pop music. They even admitted that their true fans were upset with them for crossing over from funk music to crossover pop music and they understood and it was only for business purposes......MONEY!@@GonRogue-85
We loved dancing to this in the discos. We called my sister Holly the “Hollywood Swinger” - and she sure was on the dance floor!
In 1971, my school took me on a school trip to the World Famous Apollo Theater. The Apollo was just a few blocks from my school, and on that school trip, are class, along with a few other classes,saw that Kool And The Gang. Remember, there are layers to Kool And The Gang. I’ll forget that day.🎸🥁🎼🎵🎶👍🏾
All right my babies.... This band has always been the hit! I really wish I could have seen them live in concert ‼️💯🔥🎼🎶🎤🎷🎺🎸🥁🎹☺️👍🏼
Jungle Boogie; Summer madness; Big Fun. Can't wait for those. Actually any song by them is fine with me. 🎉🎉❤
Saturday afternoons it was American Bandstand and Soul Train. Late Saturday evenings it was Midnight Special and Don Kershner´s Rock Concert.
THAT BASS LINE!🤯❤️
So glad you got to this one! Kool & The Gang had 25 Top Ten R&B hits, 12 Top Ten singles. They started out as Funk and shifted gears in the late 70's a smoother pop sound and sold a TON of records. 23 studio albums, 70 singles, and over 70 million albums sold worldwide.
I'm 62 years old. I'll be 63 in a few days. Being a teenager back in the 70 was great! I love all types of music.🙂✌️
I saw them in the early 2000’s at a corporate event. They were still funky and still filled the dance floor.
They went and did the early funk stuff like this, jungle boogie etc, the 80s funk as well and then they did a song called summer madness which is completely different but a very cool vibe song as well.
Love kool and the gang never heard a bad groove from them