Kool and the Gang- Summer Madness (1974) (Long Version) NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. COPYRIGHTS RESERVED BY COPYRIGHT OWNER.This audio/video is used only for non-profit usage and publishing.
My younger sister lost her fight to cancer this morning. Listening to this reminds me of when were in our 20s and 30 and we would just hit the road 1 or 2 am with this and the song "Riding High". R.I.P little sister.
I'm a 61 yr old white woman (who grew up outside of Baltimore) who grew up in the ’70s. “Cool & the Gang” was yes a black band, but so was every “Motown Hit.” My 1st 45 record was “Diana Ross.” We NEVER once used or heard the N-word or gave a shit if you were black or white. We loved ALL the COOL music the black artist played. And we also listened to Led Zeppelin, Stones, Doors, etc. This world is a mess right now! Our music influenced us then and unfortunately today. The lyrics & garbage they call music today are sinful!
I am a man of color and I love all music back when I was growing up and I'm almost 70 I listen to everything r&b Rock Disco my favorite groups were groups like cream, LED zeppelin, black sabbath, Grand funk railroad, Pink Floyd those were a lot of my music but I love my r&b too James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Al green, I just love music Kool & the gang, Sly and the Family Stones I love music and I still love real music today
not sure what made this a race thing with you. nobody said anything about race. music is music, we all have ears and a want to tickle them with music no matter where the music comes from. black and white and baltimore... shut up with the race shit. its music, music sees no color... only racist people do, so id take a hard look in the mirror next time you go to say something when youre listening to diana ross again. you think she cares who listens to her music? she made it for all to enjoy. liberals made racebaiting to separate us by colors. stupidest ideology ive ever heard. worked on you apparently. seems to work on the weak minded.
A evening of heavy rain hitting the window. Glass of your favorite drink. No lights, just the glow of the fireplace a soft couch and the person you love next to you enjoying this groove. Memories
The Rosezy. this is a song that make you Feel good and think what was your heart was doing or whom was you thinking about wanting to be with and wondering why there not with you and why that think is your being the way you are because thay can't make there mine
Reading the comments, I see how this song affects everyone. And, when music can transport you or make you feel a certain way every time... that's real music.
This song came out in 1974. The summer of 1974 was full of summer madness from what I recall. At least for me it was. That was the summer that my family and I moved to another house. We didn't move very far. In fact, we even stayed in the same county where we were living. However, I was just a little kid back then, so that was a big deal to me. This song captures the atmosphere perfectly of what that summer was like for me back in 1974.
it pains me to read so many ignorant poor souls who have no idea the amazing stuff coming out today. there's so much coming out in a single day that you couldn't possibly hear it all, yet you sit there complaining there's nothing of value. turn off the radio, you need to dig for it woman. stop living in the past, give today's world, of which you are a part of, some credit.
It's not just the music. It was the era a period of time associated with something. You have no idea what this music is really all about and the meaning behind it.....Maybe your age in the era you live in is ignorant. I know music it's not just for the ear. It's for the mind and the soul...........
You are blind and deaf, young I guess, and naive. I post comments on music videos from around the world. Go to my Blog and read all the comments I make on people's music from every country I know. Sweetie sees I'm a person who listens to music not only with the ear, but the mind and soul because most artists I listen to are not black artists. I don't understand the languages but their music touch, something inside so I leave a comment. Is that simple enough for you? I'm international when it comes to music. I'm Global I love it all............. This is a very fine piece. Why are you listening to it and making comments? You know good music I will give you that much.
This song just never, ever, gets old. ALWAYS sounds good. Every time, always. No matter the time of day or activity - weekend cleaning, afternoon BBQ with friends and fam, while having a good drive with the wind blowing, late night relaxing, while having some good lovin', whatever. Doesn't matter. It's always just so good.
This is the jam.. I have tears streaming down my face as I rock to this. The memories of Summertime Madness are beautiful! On the road, cruising. Youngstown, Ohio Circa 70’ and 80’s. The hometown of Robert Kool Bell.🙌🏾🌟💎
Simeon Banner you must not be from Chi Town!!! It’s where the grown ups get permission by the City to block off the street on both ends so no cars can drive through. Then ALL the neighbors bring out BBQ grills, card tables, food, MUSIC 🎵- usually there is a DJ - and a HUGE JUMPING JACK, BOUNCY HOUSE for the kids & games - maybe entertainment, family friendly- clowns, water balloons, food, drinks, music, fun.... I thought EVERY Neighbrhood had these - Summer parties 🎉 in the street - on your block. Thus the name “Block Party” 😁👍🏽❤️💯
Crying while listening and remembering people places things and this beautifully smooth groove. This long version will always be one of my top 10 favorites 🎵🎶♥️
Funny how a song is so different for so many different people. I hear this, I hear myself sitting into a sports car, shutting the door, cranking it up, and coasting down some street lit city streets. Summer at night just going. No destination. Not fast, just cruising. Top down enjoying the warm air outside. God I love this song.
I hate to say but it reminds me of being a kid in LA and waking up to gunshots and screeching tires. But it also reminds me of running down the street to play. It reminds me about everything I miss and like to forget about the city.
it still is, one can not look to mainstream as an actual representation of music as an "art". If you did on this track, I'd suggest checking out Mushroom Jazz 4 and 6. It'll suit you just as well.
One of my favorites all time..I asked wifey to play this at my funeral should i go before her. This was my go to song when I just wanted to think about life, current situations that needed to be resolved; i'd take the headphones go to the beach watch the waves and listen to the beat
Maaaan, born in '74 when this came out and my mother wore this song out whenever she puts me to be in my crib...so happy I was born in an era of some hellafied music!!
Takes me back to 1977 when I lived in Windsor next to Detroit and this was playing on WJZZZ. I had the record the next day. Still close to my heart. I just heard this track on a radio station a few minutes and did it ever blow my mind.
Dee Flowers because i made a comment about how this song has soul he told i know nothing about soul cause am white when i refused to go back out with the trainer and turned him in he made up lies and got me fired
I love this song. Charles’s octave playing was delicate and groovy. Kool’s bass tone is scrumptious. I always like George’s drumming. The synth tone was so warm analog. Great mood.
+Gloria Scott That's pretty presumptuous isn't it? Can't we just listen to music anymore without someone being even slightly vulgar, or wanting to make something that isn't there? Oh, and by the way Mrs Scott, great choice in music...
+Carl J. Scott Thank you Mr.Scott , Thank you for finding this song for me .. when I am with you this is how you make me feel whole this is our life's theme . smooth, sexy , sultry .. I love you !
+Gloria Scott You are my baby!!! oxoxoxoxoxo!!!! This song is the one we searched for and spent hours listening to... It reminds me of you. I love you!!!
My all time favorite song in life. No matter the time, day, month or year, it's still all good, period. Family picnics, joyrides with my parents and so many other good memories behind this song. And when they perform it live, they never disappoint. That groove is everything.
I was born in the late 70s. It is only now I am really digging around in the crates to find the real greats. People say the 60s or the 80s were the best decades of music. I disagree; the 70s was the meat filling to the sandwich....
One of the most amazing pieces of music I've ever heard. Still blows me away after all of these years. Don't think any other R&B group ever topped this instrumentation. (but of course this is acid jazz)
For all you Detroit peeps that remember WNIC 100.3 fm and Alan Almonds "Pillow Talk" at the 'Witching Hour' of midnight when he signed off every night!!!!! RIP Alan!!!!
I remember when i was 18 i just left home got my first car it was a 1962 Ford Falcon i put a 8 track and this is one of my favorite bands back then. This song brings back great memories of those days. Those were great times to be a live and i was truly happy.
Always loved old school music, I was 20 years old in 1974. I moved to southeast Wisconsin. Lived between Milwaukee and Chicago. So Summer Maddness brings me tears. I'm 65 years of age and this music is so close to my heart. Chicago radio station V-103 , Thank you!
This is one of my all time instrumental tracks, just love the early Jazz fused Kool & The Gang material, before they realised what a Ladies Night can do for you lol, this track has hypnotically eerie led melodies along synthesizer lines, which just oozes quality all the way through, i have never played this once on my deck, always requires a rewind, its Winter Sadness but miss the Summer Madness
Hypnotically eerie, wistfully entrancing. So deliciously jazzy, bordering on the existential. Can't believe Summer Madness and Ladies' Night came from the same band, they sound so opposite in feeling.
This track is me driving around Phoenix at night during the deep summer, gliding along the freeways with barely anyone around doing 5 lane sweeps and feeling some hot desert air blowing in over a lil A/C SUPER CHILL N SMOOTH 💎
Some seriously sweet time travel goin' on here with this classic. Rush of great memories of late night Detroit 70s/80s come flooding in. Sure would give just about anything to go back. Black, white, brown, whatever....let's get it together folks. Love and peace, all....
This was DJ Alan Almond's sign-off tune every night on "Pillow Talk" on WNIC in Detroit. I used to listen to it back in the teenage days. Just found out he died. RIP....
Mia444 44 for real I found this many nights on some crappy old 1970's car radio with horrible speakers that would rattle when I cranked this on my way home and because another show came on after I never knew it was Kool and the Gang. Now we can listen to this as many times in a row we want or find a bunch of remixes and mashups that are great too.
Mia444 I was a young student nurse working at Hurley Hospital to make ends meet while I went to school. i drove a GM car that was mostly sold in Europe. It didn't have a defogger so I had a hand scraper I used when driving home in the winter. But, it had a great radio.I would get out of work just about the time that Alan Almond was signing off of Pillow Talk and crank the radio up and away I would go to the Expressway and drive home to Davison, Mi. That was 40 + years ago. This sure does bring back memories and lots of them. I also heard about Alan Almond dying. So sorry to hear about that. He was not much younger than I am now. Thanks for your comment helping me to remember this wonderful time of my life.
This is definitely summer madness, crusin with friends in your beat down car, but that was all you guys had to get to the party and back down the highway early Saturday morning hardly any cars on the road coming back from a Friday party or club all nighter, with the sun rising in the distance and some of the guys too doped to speak crashed out on the back seat and you and your co driver just soaking it up. No words are spoken but you both understand the groove. Days you will never get back.. Cherish those precious moments, because the older you get the less friends you have...But music like this keeps the memories alive
...Summer of 1974, fresh out of High School , in my '63 Blue Pontiac Bonneville, 303hp, with Kool and The Gang's sounds jammin' on my 8-track...Good Times!...
Simply amazing! Who would dislike this? With no lyrics, I would listen to this over any song currently on the radio now and this is coming from someone under 30yrs of age.
My late friend Tommy was a life long L.A. Laker fan, and he sadly missed this week. He and I were backstage at the Kool and the Gang, K.C. and the Sunshine Band at Brown Square Park Rochester Music Festival 1993. In 1984 me and my ex met Kool, the Bassist and the Drummer and the Sax player before a show in OKC. This jam was our favorite, and perfect for how I feel, thinking about the blessings of Freedom. For my friend, and friends, be safe, and remember it ain't "free"...
Chillin' early in the spring of 2015. The weather is breakin hot in mid March, St. Patrick's day. Some are drinking green beer, others are drinking 40's. Your choice. Ain't grilling yet but it's coming. Can't wait to explode this endless classic through the speakers later on this summer at a cookout. But for now, I'm enjoying this jazzy run on my balcony and sippin' and looking at God's beauty, and saying "wow."
this is just sexiness...I love this music so much! Thanks to my dad for raising me on this beautiful, soulful music. I wanna be by a lake with a joint, a margarita and my sketchbook..ideal day
Your sister really had the right time of day(2am) allignid with the right sounds in music to by out and about for a drive. So do you. Peace always to her and you.
Found this in my dads CD collection, one of instant favorites. If you're ever have a bad day and need to calm yourself, this is the jam right here. One of those beats you wish would never end.
I can't believe this thing is almost 50 years old! They used to play this on the radio when I was a kid growing up in Barbados and I still feel the same way now as I did back then every single time I hear it. The synth chords are nothing less than sick!!!❤❤❤
It’s a rather hot humid summer night here (hawaii). Laying on an old lounger on my patio with a cold drink w/ plenty of ice, and looking up at the stars while listening to this groovy music and thinking how blessed I am. Thank YOU, GOD.
I'm 19 and this is one of my favourite songs. At the moment, I dont really have a definite direction in life and there are some obstacles that i need to overcome. I listen to this song to calm down, to remind myself, that everything is going to be alright and that i got this shit and that there's nothing that can happen to me that i wont be able to deal with. Thank you, all you old souls, writing under these old jams and sharing your thoughts and experiences. I appreciate you. I wish you the best. Love it is. Whatever may be. We got this.
On a sailboat off the California coast, sailing toward Catalina and a gorgeous sunset, a glass of wine and your favorite other next to you chillin'. Thinking about what the coming night will bring in the great year of 1975. It was all so good, and somehow we messed it all up.
No matter what natives Californians are going through,and how awful it became...,I'll be here until the day of rest,bc I love the weather,oceans & theme parks etc etc etc...we have it all,we can do without these corruptitions here 😩!!
I'm 41 years old and can remember hearing this song in my teenage years but never knew the name of it. Listening to this always put me in a relaxing and peaceful mood.
Similar story: used to hear this song played on some Detroit Soul/R&B station every night while driving at night--some DJ used it as his theme song for a late night pillow talk show--and he'd play the whole song and sometimes use it as his bridge and/or background when he spoke. Such great memories. Such a timeless masterpiece.
+Echoch San Carlos Claydes Smith was on a Les Paul guitar i believe. Kool was playing a Fender P back then. Before he went onto Zon basses. The Fender Rhodes---that is what Ronald Bell is crushin' on. thank you. Skillz beyond skeelzz!!!LOL ...Truly Awesome funk sauce!!
Thumbs up for Mr Robert "Kool" Bell and his group "KOOL & THE GANG". I first heard this song in 1975 during my Senior year in HS @ CCHS. Kool and the Gang were one of the guest bands at "GRAD NITE 1975" that was held at DISNEY WORLD in Orlando, Fla. A performance that I will never forget.
