He said in another video that music was not really present in his house except at Christmas (and even then, it was instrumental). His parents rarely listened to the radio or records, so he grew up without being exposed to a lot of classic or contemporary music, so it wasn't something he was interested in until now.
THIS WAS FUNK in my day. Patent leather shoes w/heel, bell bottom polyester pants, wide collar shirts, puca shells etc... 9th grade dances etc. Try Earth Wind and Fire band as well! George
@@georgekininmonth2070 Haha! I was SWINGING the sauce! LMAO The best grooves... And the way that sound burst on the scene just as I entered high school.... Perfect timing. Ohio Players FIRE is what hooked me into the BEST party music ever produced.
I have not heard this song in FOREVER!!! I remember when it came out. Kool and the Gang was one of my favorite groups in the early 80's! My favorites are " Misled" and "Tonight" and later in the 80's "Stone Love" They had TONS of great songs but I wore my cassettes out playing "Misled" and "Tonight" over and over again! WOW. "Get Down On It"!!! This song came out in 81 or 82. I was 10 or 11. Much too young for parties. But I danced and sang all over the house!!😂
heck yeah, Cameo is in the top 5 for sure. So many hits... "I just want to be", "Keep It Hot", "your loves takes me out", "single life", "flirt"... so many incredible songs
This right here is FUNK my friend! This goes back to the 60's...grew out of RnB and blues musicians probably out of boogie blues jams and accentuating the drums and brass... all the instruments becoming percussion instruments. The earliest examples being James Brown and the JB's, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone,Kool and the Gang, the Ohio Players and MANY more...Check out the stuff from late 60's and then into the 70's first..the music evolved in the 80's...I could go on and on! Lol Enjoy your music Journey!
This was the later disco era/early funk. One of the most spectacular things about groups of this era is that they sounded like this live! No remixing, no sampling, no tech like we have now...just pure talent!
In the 70's and early 80's this type of music was called Disco. We loved it and still do. This lead the way to great dance music. Glad you enjoyed this. I personally love Kool and the Gang. Try listening to K. C. and the Sunshine Band.
I’m a 50 year young white girl. Kool and the gang were popular when I was in grade school in the 70’s and early to mid 80’s. Music is the universal language and has no color barriers. 🤘🏻👌🏽👍🏽. I love watching your reactions to these old school music genres. ❤️
Celebrate! By Kool and the Gang is one most everyone would respond to and dance at a club or party if played. Kool and the Gang is definitely R&B/Funk!
I was a teenager in the 70s...and this was one of the best! Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire ...they were the songs played at every gathering and made you smile and dance...even if you weren't a dancer.
I love, love, love Kool in the Gang from the late 70s and eighties! JT Taylor, the lead singer, was so cool and cute!. This band was in the funk genre along with bands of rather late seventies and eighties like Cameo, Confunksun, The Commodores, LTD! These bands had percussion, horns, guitars, piano, etc! They were so much more than disco, they were funk! ❤️❤️
One of my favorite R&B groups, including The Commodores, The Miracles, & Boys to Men! I was raised in house that loved music. My dad had a huge collection of albums from Classical, Country, R&B, Motown, Disco, even Dean Martin. I love music from the 50's to now and I am 48. I was exposed to all music and very much appreciate my dad for letting me listen and jam with him. On a personal level I am a metal and rock kind of old lady, but I do respect and love most music.
It seems to have worked its magic on you! The idea is to DANCE! Many great memories of the absolute joy of being on the dance floor hearing this again. I see many fantastic suggestions by other subscribers here, ALL designed to "shake what your momma gave ya!"
@@jfilesgraphics Oh yeah. Old as I am... I grew listening to ALL of their hits. They was KILLIN it in the 80's. Songs like: "Cherish" and "She's Fresh"...etc. Them along with Cameo.... the 80's was THEIR decade.
When I was a teen, this was one of our grooves, was on the radio big time, we wore out so many 45s! Back then there was no internet...just grooves! So much wonderful music! Ya can't be still, glad to see you young people enjoying our Prime! 😊😊😊😎
Late 70s early 80s funk was the best dance music ever. I danced every weekend to Gap Band, Parliament, Klymaxx, etc. Good times and nobody cared about the color of your skin on the dance floor😊
Also: Big Fun, Mislead, Take My Heart, Joanna, Let's Go Dancing, Cherish, Jones VS Jones The one song I would always dance to at a party" 1999" by Prince!!!
I spent a good portion of the mid eighties in the club dancing to "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Please, I know you would love it. It was a very controversial song at the time and brought an awareness to addiction to the forefront of conversation, as well as a kick butt great groove!
Rock was not the only music genre that excelled in the 70’s and 80’s. This is just one of hundreds of awesome songs in the R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco, and Dance genres. Next recommended Cool & The Gang song: “Ladies Night” The one song that makes me want to dance is by the group, Brick: “Dazz” (play the long version to hear the funky flute solo)
I saw Kool and the Gang in 2018 in Denver Colorado USA, and they had the Best Horn Section I've ever Seen. 🎼🎼🎼 Master Musicians and Consumate Professionals
You can't go wrong with almost _ANY_ Kool & the Gang song. "Fresh" "Jungle Boogie" "Joanna" "Funky Stuff" "Hollywood Swinging" "Take My Heart" "Ladies' Night" "Too Hot" "Celebration" "Cherish" just to name a few(OK, more than a few).😉
I'm a 60 year old white boy from SC... this song was huge when I was in HS... I saw Kool & the Gang twice in Columbia, SC in the 80s...your reaction brought me joy! Ha!
I come from a family who loves music and dancing. This song was always played at parties, Kool and the Gang and Earth Wind & Fire were always played. We always did the bus stop or the electric slide. I learned to slow dance at a party to "Careless Whisper". When I was 9/10 yrs old going to skating parties if "Humpty Dance" came on you had to be out on the floor. I remember my senior year everyone on the dance floor jumping and shouting "Please Stand UP!" for "The Real Slim Shady". My bestie and I always hit the dance floor if we hear "Groove is in the Heart".
Sunny day in germany driving around in my Car......hearing kool & the gang real loud.........it was a life Concert of them !! I got in without a Ticket....it was great !! (Lorelei above Rhein River)
Top notch chair dancing! This is one of those songs you play at the get-together that has everyone moving, from the young ones who love a vintage groove, to the aunties dancing around their purses.
I grew up in the 80's so there were so many songs that we would get down to, Funky Town, Black Betty, Come on feel the Noize ( All covers from the 70's ) Flashdance ( what a feeling ), Love Shack, Herbie Hancock - Rockit, Pump Up The Jam, Super Freak, Blue Monday....theres just so many i could go on for years :D
This was the starter song when I was a young teen at parties. 💕 we were called wallflowers when you go to a party and didn’t dance. So this was the song to move the crowd.
One that gets me into a dancing mood is the 'Double Dutch Bus', by Frankie Smith. You can groove to that one! Besides this one, of course! There are so many from that era.
![ลองสุ่มไอโฟน 990 โกงมั้ย? [ โกงมั้ยครับ ep.101 ] | DOM](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bfsWe0j492k/mqdefault.jpg)
How do people not know these jams. Glad I was raised in 70s and 80s
Me too. Born in the 70’s, and a loud and proud child of the 80’s.
Same here bro Born in 70. Glad we had such great music.
Just thinking the same thing. Born in 70, wouldn't trade it for anything.
@@sixfootbeauty born in 70 also. Got to hear all the great music. Got the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. A great time
He said in another video that music was not really present in his house except at Christmas (and even then, it was instrumental). His parents rarely listened to the radio or records, so he grew up without being exposed to a lot of classic or contemporary music, so it wasn't something he was interested in until now.
Absolutely more Kool and the Gang!!! Jungle Boogie, Ladies Night, Celebration, Hollywood Swingin’, Too Hot, Fresh!
ALL OF THESE❤️
Misled
Yup all of em.
Yes Hollywood swinging
All of these and joanna and cherish
The LEGENDARY Iconic Kool and his Gang ❤❤❤❤❤
THIS WAS FUNK in my day. Patent leather shoes w/heel, bell bottom polyester pants, wide collar shirts, puca shells etc... 9th grade dances etc. Try Earth Wind and Fire band as well! George
Doing the bump and the hustle... Man, so much fun.
@@anniegoodrich262 DOING THE BUMP!!! Love it!
@@georgekininmonth2070 Haha! I was SWINGING the sauce! LMAO
The best grooves... And the way that sound burst on the scene just as I entered high school.... Perfect timing.
Ohio Players FIRE is what hooked me into the BEST party music ever produced.
@@anniegoodrich262 The Northeast area...Philly/ NY area that's were I grew up and the Bump was a way to make a good freind!
wait 'til he hit on The Commodores. I mean... Lionel.
It's pure funk and still danced in the clubs. This will also lift up even a dead person...🤩
This was a great dancing song & roller skating song!!!!
I have not heard this song in FOREVER!!! I remember when it came out. Kool and the Gang was one of my favorite groups in the early 80's!
My favorites are " Misled" and
"Tonight" and later in the 80's "Stone Love"
They had TONS of great songs but I wore my cassettes out playing "Misled" and "Tonight" over and over again!
WOW. "Get Down On It"!!!
This song came out in 81 or 82. I was 10 or 11. Much too young for parties. But I danced and sang all over the house!!😂
Best R n B , Funk, disco, pop they play it all! Love Kool & the Gang!
Obviously they don't play the best funk, that honour belongs to George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic.
Yessss! Kool & The Gang! The coolest band in the land! #70sforever #80sforlife ❤
This was the song that made everyone dance.
That's true, that's magical👍👍👍😁😁
You need to check out Cameo-- Candy, Word Up, Shake Your Pants......
Oh my god, I forgot Cameo!!! :D Good one !
heck yeah, Cameo is in the top 5 for sure.
So many hits... "I just want to be", "Keep It Hot", "your loves takes me out", "single life", "flirt"...
so many incredible songs
Ya'll remember Alligator Woman by Cameo?!
Hangin downtown........love you anyway Please !
All of these, in this order!
then the #1 Dance is "STOMP" by the Brothers Johnson
This right here is FUNK my friend! This goes back to the 60's...grew out of RnB and blues musicians probably out of boogie blues jams and accentuating the drums and brass... all the instruments becoming percussion instruments. The earliest examples being James Brown and the JB's, Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone,Kool and the Gang, the Ohio Players and MANY more...Check out the stuff from late 60's and then into the 70's first..the music evolved in the 80's...I could go on and on! Lol Enjoy your music Journey!
This groove is undeniable. Infectious indeed!
This is "Funk" music my dude
Unmitigated, undeniable, unbelievably groovy funk. One of my fave genres.
Yes love the funk!
This was the later disco era/early funk. One of the most spectacular things about groups of this era is that they sounded like this live! No remixing, no sampling, no tech like we have now...just pure talent!
In the 70's and early 80's this type of music was called Disco. We loved it and still do. This lead the way to great dance music. Glad you enjoyed this. I personally love Kool and the Gang. Try listening to K. C. and the Sunshine Band.
I’m a 50 year young white girl. Kool and the gang were popular when I was in grade school in the 70’s and early to mid 80’s. Music is the universal language and has no color barriers. 🤘🏻👌🏽👍🏽. I love watching your reactions to these old school music genres. ❤️
Couldn't sit still when this was first released and STILL can't sit still. They were great!!
This was during a time when there were many discos and dancing was the thing to do on the weekends....GREAT TIME! God I miss those days....
Some music just demands you “get down on it”
You don’t even really have a choice... it’s a necessity
Cameo “word up” and especially “Candy”
Awww yeah!!!!! Word up is a classic!!!
OMG, can't hear "Word Up" without reaching for the volume knob!!!
70's disco, Funk and good leeling music. You brought back my dancing days. Thanks you. 😇
React to Ladies Night by Kool and The Gang.
R & B is the genre, but definitely a dance track.
The song that filled the dance floor in my day ... You Dropped The Bomb On Me - The GAP Band
Celebrate! By Kool and the Gang is one most everyone would respond to and dance at a club or party if played. Kool and the Gang is definitely R&B/Funk!
Wasn't their best song.
I was a teenager in the 70s...and this was one of the best! Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire ...they were the songs played at every gathering and made you smile and dance...even if you weren't a dancer.
Disco baby! ♥️😂👏🏻. Bell bottoms, disco balls, so much fun in the 70s. Favorite song, Boogie Wonderland.
I feel a skate party coming on!!!
I love, love, love Kool in the Gang from the late 70s and eighties! JT Taylor, the lead singer, was so cool and cute!. This band was in the funk genre along with bands of rather late seventies and eighties like Cameo, Confunksun, The Commodores, LTD! These bands had percussion, horns, guitars, piano, etc! They were so much more than disco, they were funk! ❤️❤️
Yes- this was funk/disco! A huge dance hit!
One of my favorite R&B groups, including The Commodores, The Miracles, & Boys to Men! I was raised in house that loved music. My dad had a huge collection of albums from Classical, Country, R&B, Motown, Disco, even Dean Martin. I love music from the 50's to now and I am 48. I was exposed to all music and very much appreciate my dad for letting me listen and jam with him. On a personal level I am a metal and rock kind of old lady, but I do respect and love most music.
Disco era for sure, but it can be played right now in a club.
Yep that's the same thing that I and pretty much everyone else on the planet did the first time hearing this song from Kool and the Gang.
Thanks.
try Parliament Flashlight or One Nation Under a Groove
More Kool and the gang!!!! Misled, Fresh, Ladies Night!!!!! Plenty more where that came from.
It seems to have worked its magic on you! The idea is to DANCE! Many great memories of the absolute joy of being on the dance floor hearing this again. I see many fantastic suggestions by other subscribers here, ALL designed to "shake what your momma gave ya!"
C'mon man. If we're going down the Kool and the Gang rabbit hole you have to listen to Jungle Boogie.
@Chris. Very true... but this is what REALLY put Kool n the Gang on the map. What I call the... James "JT" Taylor era.
Amen Bro. Anything leading up to Celebration was pure smelly "funk" (in the good sense of the word) lol
@@jfilesgraphics Oh yeah. Old as I am... I grew listening to ALL of their hits. They was KILLIN it in the 80's. Songs like: "Cherish" and "She's Fresh"...etc. Them along with Cameo.... the 80's was THEIR decade.
The rabbit hole is so huge and deep🕳️🐰😂😂😂😂Thks Kool and the Gang😍😍😍
When I was a teen, this was one of our grooves, was on the radio big time, we wore out so many 45s! Back then there was no internet...just grooves! So much wonderful music! Ya can't be still, glad to see you young people enjoying our Prime! 😊😊😊😎
Funk baby! Back in the day we jammed hard to Kool & The Gang!!!
Great song 🎵 when music was music 🎶. Dancing the soles off my shoes.
When I was a teenager I danced to this song me and my friends at partys or when we were just chilling at the house!
“Earth Wind & Fire - September” was the jam
Late 70s early 80s funk was the best dance music ever. I danced every weekend to Gap Band, Parliament, Klymaxx, etc. Good times and nobody cared about the color of your skin on the dance floor😊
Also: Big Fun, Mislead, Take My Heart, Joanna, Let's Go Dancing, Cherish, Jones VS Jones
The one song I would always dance to at a party" 1999" by Prince!!!
There are other Kool & The Gang songs that you need to listen to such as: Misled, Hollywood Swinging, Joanna, Cherish, Fresh and Celebration.
YASSSSS!!!! "Hollywood Swinging, Funky Stuff and Jungle boogie"
Ladies Night.
Too Hot.
I spent a good portion of the mid eighties in the club dancing to "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Please, I know you would love it. It was a very controversial song at the time and brought an awareness to addiction to the forefront of conversation, as well as a kick butt great groove!
Rock was not the only music genre that excelled in the 70’s and 80’s. This is just one of hundreds of awesome songs in the R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco, and Dance genres.
Next recommended Cool & The Gang song: “Ladies Night”
The one song that makes me want to dance is by the group, Brick: “Dazz” (play the long version to hear the funky flute solo)
Dude!, this song was played in every garage party when I was in Junior High Uhhh mm yeah!
Operator by Midnight Star always gets me dancing!!
Perfect Soul Train line dance music!
As we would say"that's my jam."
“Misled” & “Joanna” are also great ones by Kool & the Gang. 🕺
Mislead is my favorite! 💖
Agreed
Yes Misled is best
Cool & the Gang was disco. Then again that was what songs where written for in that era, Radio, Discos, or Roller Rinks.
Disco was about feeling and having fun !!!
Party over here!!!! House party 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
House party music, cook out music, feel good, dancing music. Love K&G!
Jodi Watley - "I'm Looking For A New Love"
How does one NOT start moving when they hear this song!! This is serious jam.
We had the best music back in the day!
I saw Kool and the Gang in 2018 in Denver Colorado USA, and they had the Best Horn Section I've ever Seen. 🎼🎼🎼 Master Musicians and Consumate Professionals
Remember roller skating to this song! Got to see them live. It was awesome.I miss funky bands bands like this!
This is FUNK 🎶
omg i forgot this band takes me way back awesome
Saw them several times in my teens. Can't stop dancing when they start playing.
I saw them at six flags in arlington in
1980 .
I didn't see where anyone mentioned "Brickhouse" - that is a must listen to.
This song here would have been one of them songs to get you moving. Nobody ever listened to Get Down On It and didn't Get Down On It, lol.
it complements "Whatcha doing on your back? Whatcha doing on your back? Eh, eh, eh, You Should Be Dancing, yeah" (Bee Gees)
Its impossible to not! 🤣
Damn Right!!! Now that was a reaction!!
Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to get funked up)
Midnight Star "No Parking On The Dance Floor" ........
Oh yeah this was a good one, he needs to hear it
Yesssssssssss!
Also Freak A Zoid and Operator.
@@jadziadax5365 I be your freakaziod come on and wind me up.
You can't go wrong with almost _ANY_ Kool & the Gang song. "Fresh" "Jungle Boogie" "Joanna" "Funky Stuff" "Hollywood Swinging" "Take My Heart" "Ladies' Night" "Too Hot" "Celebration" "Cherish" just to name a few(OK, more than a few).😉
Dee-Lite - “Groove is In the Heart”
THIS ONE. 🌟 PLEASE. 😁
@ Traci Hacker That whole album, "World Clique" is great. Not one bad song.
If you're looking for more disco-era dance music... K.C. & The Sunshine band is a must! I recommend starting with Boogie Shoes! Love your reactions! 😍
I'm a 60 year old white boy from SC... this song was huge when I was in HS... I saw Kool & the Gang twice in Columbia, SC in the 80s...your reaction brought me joy! Ha!
I come from a family who loves music and dancing. This song was always played at parties, Kool and the Gang and Earth Wind & Fire were always played. We always did the bus stop or the electric slide. I learned to slow dance at a party to "Careless Whisper". When I was 9/10 yrs old going to skating parties if "Humpty Dance" came on you had to be out on the floor. I remember my senior year everyone on the dance floor jumping and shouting "Please Stand UP!" for "The Real Slim Shady". My bestie and I always hit the dance floor if we hear "Groove is in the Heart".
Absolutely the reaction needed to this classic dance number!!
Sunny day in germany driving around in my Car......hearing kool & the gang real loud.........it was a life Concert of them !! I got in without a Ticket....it was great !! (Lorelei above Rhein River)
We are Family will definitely get folks to the dance floor! We need more R&B reactions!
Top notch chair dancing! This is one of those songs you play at the get-together that has everyone moving, from the young ones who love a vintage groove, to the aunties dancing around their purses.
For a change of genre...try Heavy D and the Boyz "Now that we found love"
I was 5 years old when my cousin taught me to dance to rhythm with this song playing. I will never forget it.
Came out in 1981- the year I graduated highschool- and it still packs dance floors 40 years later!
The genre? They walk a tightrope between disco, r&b and funk.
Kool and the Gang is one of the best concerts I have been too. More Kool and the Gang!
this song was Kool and the Gang's cross over to Disco
I grew up in the 80's so there were so many songs that we would get down to, Funky Town, Black Betty, Come on feel the Noize ( All covers from the 70's ) Flashdance ( what a feeling ), Love Shack, Herbie Hancock - Rockit, Pump Up The Jam, Super Freak, Blue Monday....theres just so many i could go on for years :D
Their song Celebration always makes me happy. Like Mardi Gras happy.
Kool & the Gang been around since the mid 1960s. They had some hits in the 70s, but they really exploded in popularity from 1979 to 1987.
Cherish, Ladies Night, Too Hot and Fresh are grooves.
Showing my age but this was a huge hit disco skating. I've always been someone that would dance alone and not care. This is one of those songs.
Celebration. Fresh. Joanna. Cherish. Ladies Night. Mislead. They’re awesome!
Saw them live three times, the best shows ever!
Celebration by Kool & The Gang is one of their best songs to get your feet moving. A really great song 🎵!
This was the starter song when I was a young teen at parties. 💕 we were called wallflowers when you go to a party and didn’t dance. So this was the song to move the crowd.
Funk, dance, disco. They do it all!
These guys are one of my favorite bands ever. Also Earth Wind & Fire. Best female singer ever Anita Baker. Anything from Rapture cd.
Oh, this is funk. And by definition, funk is party music. More funk, please.
One that gets me into a dancing mood is the 'Double Dutch Bus', by Frankie Smith. You can groove to that one! Besides this one, of course! There are so many from that era.
Kool and the Gang Celebration was the song that got people up on the dance floor!
Kool & The Gang were funky dancing sound. One song that I alway couldn’t resist was by Kool & The Gang “Ladies Night”