What Happened To Kool & The Gang?

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Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, everyone followed the instructions laid out by this band to Jungle Boogie, Get Down on It and have a Celebration! When the members of R&B/Soul/Funk band Kool & the Gang formed in 1964, they never imagined what success awaited them in the next 2 decades. The ensemble, formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, originally consisted of seven school friends who decided to perform together as an instrumental jazz and soul group under the name The Jazz Birds who would later become the Jazziacs. Among them were Robert "Kool" Bell on bass guitar, his brother Ronald Bell on saxophone, Dennis "D.T." Thomas on alto saxophone, Robert "Spike" Mickens on trumpet, Ricky West on keyboards, George Brown on drums, and Charles Smith on guitar.
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@deewoo2776 Год назад

James J.T. Taylor's voice was so charismatic and pleasing to the ear. I love Kool & The Gang overall. 70s and 80s. Legends

@LotusLady Год назад

It's nice to finally hear a positive story about one of the greats that didn't involve a lot of drama, fighting with each other, financial struggles, and mismanagement. They are true legends! Thank you for your sharing!

@NycBeauty Год назад

Also, no public drug use …

@rochstan123 Год назад

One of my favourite bands ever. They were grounded and that reflected in their music and success. Impressive how they didn't allow any thieving managers to take control, which is where most groups and artists fail. They deserved all their success.

@nicolesherman8974 Год назад

Summer Madness and Get Down on It are such classics. Heavy on Summer Madness since it has been sampled throughout the years!

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 Год назад

Yes! Summer madness is a Classic and heavily sampled from Fresh Prince to Jhene Aiko. September Love is my ALL TIME favorite and so underrated.

@arnoldm.3639 Год назад

I Love Khalis's (Ronald's) Synthesizer Solo On Summer Madness, Especially The Live Version.

@jrors93 Год назад

Their music has stood the Test of Time. And they really need to be honored, awarded and placed in, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

@gregoryingram7561 Год назад

So true!! And what's sad about that is now almost all the original members are dead, they should have been in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame many, many years ago!!

@darhyllacylacy Год назад

Absolutely!

@playground2583 Год назад

ineed

@drumsNstuff79 11 дней назад

They are being inducted this year! Better late than never. The R&RHOF has such a massive backlog of deserving bands that may or may not ever get in, too many to count. Each year they induct a bigger and bigger class. It's nuts. But with fan voting introduced years ago many bands and artist are now getting their well deserved due. I do wish they ahd done it while more of the guys were still with us, but so be it. They have been honored so much by so many already though. They have had a wonderful career and are still kickin' it night after night!

@jrors93 11 дней назад

@@drumsNstuff79 The Class of 2024. Yes indeed. Thanks for update!

@riverburrwouos9307 Год назад

I love the song "Cherish" I just love it, every time I hear the song, it warms my heart..🥰🥰🥰

@robertpaciullo1540 Год назад

James taylor made this group the legendary band they became with his great voice and dancing. JT was a brilliant addition to the group in 1979

@isaiahwinbrone Год назад

We don't have bands like this today

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 Год назад

So true. Talent was so abundant back then. What happened?

@meeshafletcher Год назад

Not at all, not Mainstream

@Ramy-ql3tr Год назад

True. Instead we're drowned by rappers who can't sing.

@christ2994 Год назад

@@meeshafletcher l love you meesha

@amandadunn7678 Год назад

We don't have bands period anymore. I'm tired of that!

@beaniegee5129 Год назад

Kool and the Gang definitely deserves their flowers while they're still here

@markphilpot8734 Год назад

You got that right!

@ezedikeohamadike9003 Год назад

Deodato ruined the band. I like the first four records. Light of worlds was brilliant.

@gregoryingram7561 Год назад

It's a complete tragedy that they haven't been inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of Fame!!! What I remember is in the early eighties Kool and the gang would go back and forth with Hall and Oates scoring hit after hit! Hall and Oates are in the hall of Fame, Kool and the gang still waits.

@christophermitchum6829 Год назад

End of story...Kool ran Hollywood swingin'

@christophermitchum6829 Год назад

P.S.. Celebrate...ladies night...ran my band's lineup. Still Kool...💪😝😎

@aaronj.brooks1977 Год назад

R. I. P. to some of the band members that we lost throughout the years 🙏🏾 Kool and The Gang should be rock ‘n roll hall of fame this band had decades of hit music 🎶.

@terry21651 5 месяцев назад

They were inducted into THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME this year 2024. Congrats to them.....well deserved

@olderface9939 3 месяца назад

@@terry21651 YESSSIRRRR THE FAM IS HYPEDDD

@Koolazzmike Год назад

Can someone induct these legends into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame? Way overdue!

@drumsNstuff79 11 дней назад

This year was the year!! They will be inducted in the class of 2024. What an honor!

@kevinpayton2664 Год назад

A legendary band to say the least. Kool and the Gang dominated the 1970's and 1980's. My favorite songs by them are Summer Madness, Too Hot, Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Get Down On It, You Can Have It, and Ladies Night.

@rochstan123 Год назад

Loved all of these songs, but Jones vs Jones is right up there.

@mysteria5705 Год назад

I'll also give "Let's Go Dancing" a nod.

@kimberlyjackson7266 Год назад

I still play summer madness ❤

@jasonallen3678 Год назад

@Kimberly Jackson I don't think any person who know good music, nomatter their color or creed could ever not love and enjoy Summer Madness..

@kimberlyjackson7266 Год назад

@@jasonallen3678 agree

@lifesaver72 Год назад

I love me some Kool & The Gang. Their music is timeless. 🥰

@keithbenson2627 Год назад

I can’t believe no one mentioned “Dee Tee” Thomas’ daughter Michelle Thomas who was a Star in her own right ! She appeared on the Cosby Show as Theo’s girlfriend then she became a regular on Family Matters as Myra Monkhouse as Steve Urkles girlfriend ! She died at such a young age .She was absolutely gorgeous and when she walked into a room you couldn’t take your eyes off of her ! God bless you Michelle Thomas

@musicmanson 5 месяцев назад

I actually didn’t know that. RIP Michelle Thomas

@doreensika837 Год назад

Omg I love me some kool and the gang, I’m 27 but my father use to play them so I grew up loving them. They make timeless music, they are legends. Thanks for doing this. ❤ My favs will always be cherish, celebration, get down on it, fresh and summer madness. ❤

@doreensika837 Год назад

@@workedfortheciawhenisoldrock awww that’s sweet thanks

@Nanbebe7 Год назад

My kids are your age and I took them to a KATG concert 3 years ago in GA they had a blast. They grew up on old school

@toneyisaiah3556 Год назад

I have the 45 single Hollywood Swinging on Delite records,1974.

@toneyisaiah3556 Год назад

I also have Jungle Boogie on a Seventies compilation CD.

@doreensika837 Год назад

@@Nanbebe7 you did your job mama.

@wlee6685 Год назад

This band pretty much owned the 80's and 90's with R&B and Pop music and yet there's not even a whisper about them being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If there were no pop bands in the hall I could understand but there are tons of pop and R&B artists in there so what gives??

@Thespeedrap Год назад

That's crazy there's nothing about them around mainstream surfaces but yet Jay-Z and Eminem got one WTH.

@gregoryingram7561 Год назад

A freaking travesty!!! They should have been in the Hall of Fame year's ago! I will always love Elton John, who blasted the Rock and roll board members that decides who goes in, when the board kept overlooking Donna Summer the Queen of Disco! Elton called them out on it! Unfortunately when they finally choose her she died a year before her induction.

@chriso8193 Год назад

Hey...Teena Marie has no Grammy, no star on Hollywood Blvd neither does Rick James....plus, for some stupid reason....Rick james only got a Grammy for his sample on U Cant Touch This. Both made way more money than Kool & The Gang. Fire & Desire never got a nomination.

@williamsnyder7945 Год назад

RIP to the ones that past away. They really did make classic music. Dang they made a lot of albums. They deserve all of they praise.

@eluv173 Год назад

The archetype of music! Rest in power to the ones we lost! Thank You Kool & The Gang for all the jams y’all gave us!!! ❤❤❤❤

@justmarguax9207 Год назад

Wow!! This was really nice. I was a kid when these songs were popular on radio as well playing at the basement parties my parents used to do . Those were the good ol days!!

@beaniegee5129 Год назад

Jungle Boogie, Get Down on it, Celebration, Joanna, Ladies Night, Fresh and Cherish are my favorite songs from Kool and the Gang

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 Год назад

YEEESS Love ALL of them But add September Love. That's my favorite💖

@samuelwashington3646 Год назад

These guys were pure jazz until James Taylor joined.That,s when they got into r&b.

@danavixen6274 Год назад

Tonight, Fresh, Mislead and Open Sesame are some of my MANY FAVORITES from this BEYOND LEGENDARY band! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@shawnmotley1898 Год назад

Too Hot was also great.

@danavixen6274 Год назад

@@shawnmotley1898 👍🏾

@shawnmotley1898 Год назад

Those as well.

@ramsesstafford4640 Год назад

I'm a huge fan of this band. Their Jazz roots is what helped them be such great musicians. I'm more of a fan of their earlier jazz funk stuff but I'm a fan of their more popular stuff that came out around the time I was born in the late 70s as well. They were able to reinvent themselves over and over in different decades something that black acts did a lot back in the day.

@rettathomas837 Год назад

One of the few groups that stay grounded, love their music, glad to hear they’re still forming

@beaniegee5129 Год назад

Summer Madness was heard in movies such as Baby Boy and You Got Served

@v.a.993 Год назад

Summer Madness and Ladies Night are STILL my favorite Kook & The Gang songs. So very different in terms of genres, yet so classic and iconic.

@v.a.993 Год назад

Get Down on It is the ish too.

@jasonallen3678 Год назад

Summer Madness wasn't nothing but a masterpiece and my favorite Gang song along with Too Hot..

@beaniegee5129 Год назад

Get Down on it was also heard in movies such as B.A.P.S. and This Christmas

@AlanaGurl Год назад

Great video. I teach seniors at a fitness center. And let me tell you, when Kool and the gang comes on, they always go crazy. Today we played “too hot” and they started dancing lol. This band is so talented.

@rheeryder2524 Год назад

😭😭😭😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

@selenat264 Год назад

Another great video and band. You always do a really good job!

@lorethajohnson8140 Год назад

Thanks to my father for introducing me to this awesome band

@siedahholmes5031 Год назад

Kool and the Gang is the soundtrack to black BBQs😊💛🌻

@Thespeedrap Год назад

I love Summer Madness song.I hate that B.E.T never gave them a lifetime achievement award yet or Rock and roll hall of Fame which feels so wrong.

@pauladeegan6926 Год назад

Thank You so much for all of your hard work to put videos like this together! 🌟. 💫. They had some great music man!

@MsPhylie Год назад

I hope once they license their story, they mention Dennis Thomas' daughter too Michelle Thomas aka Justine from the Cosby Show/Myra from Family Matters.

@errolthomas9426 Год назад

Caribbean Festival is one of the best hits from the 1975 album Spirit of Boogie

@nagel1968 Год назад

Ladies night is still my favourite...I remember when Michael jackson was in the audience singing the hook note ...just brilliant..

@laticialockleer4929 Год назад

I've always loved this amazing band!

@nataliemscrzysxycoolharris Год назад

Nothing like a band. There are a lot that are my faves. Kool & The Gang is mos def a fave. Plenty of parties got started with them. Cookouts too. Now when the elders request their music and they wanna dance what does that tell you?

@darrylcarter3691 Год назад

There was also ladies rap sample by Missy Elliot

@lala40121 Год назад

Summer Madness just puts me in a feel good mood like I'm watching the sun set on a hill in Cali lol that song is in a lane of its own! Get Down on it & Too Hot...forever classics!!

@twistoffate4791 Год назад

Same. There's just nothing like it!

@MrBlaq Год назад

Summer Madness is my favorite song by Kool & the Gang

@Shayoyeye5223 Год назад

I grew up hearing their songs play, thanks to my late dad. Celebration, Cherish and Get down on it were my favourites. Classic! 🤩✨❤️

@deamonghod Год назад

Legendary! And another hot one.... Thank you for this also hopefully gives the new genartion great insights as to how to do it as a band. Love these! Keep em. Coming ❤️❤️❤️🔥👍🏾💪🏾

@ItsJustTuesday Год назад

Summer Madness is an always be a gem

@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 Год назад

Yeess Love Kool & the Gang!!🙌🏾!!! Thank you for the video!💕September Love, Cherish, Too hot, Joanna, Ladies Night my faves💕 Can you do one on HeatWave?

@mfcmfc8483 Год назад

One of my favorite groups saw them live in concert. They were the best.

@timothykangethe7700 Год назад

Iconic Discography from the legendary Kool and the Gang. Personal favourites 👉Take my Heart, When you say you love somebody you gatta let em know about it, Cherish, Hi da Hi/Ho.🥰🎇🎇🎇

@martymart42 Год назад

Kool & the gang was the reason why I started liking music that in the day when I was 10 years old late 80s.

@AP-yb8ji Год назад

Real music that will never die.

@serterriamonet4580 Год назад

Much Respect to real talent ❤️

@roywilson9342 Год назад

Who a group that held the test of time in beats and love. This was so soulful glad I subscribed.

@lelomiliken7598 Год назад

Rest in Power to the ones we lost. ✨✨. Still bumping their music 💥💥💥. Emergency!! E- mer- gen-cy!!! 🌋.

@MsgJazz99 Год назад

Great information telling their story, but their best LP and one of the best LPs of all time was not mentioned. Their LP Something Special was truly something special. It's the one with Take My Heart, Get Down On it, and Be My lady. Started listening to them in the 70's, saw them live in the 80's, and plan to go see them live in 2023. There are no black R & B groups any more, but R & B will live forever because of talented musicians like Kool and the Gang. RIP departed band members.

@tahirhubbard7633 Год назад

Skip Martin of the Dazz Band was a back up or a replacement lead singer for Kool and The Gang

@cle-chi Год назад

Thank you!!!! I was looking for this comment. Skip can sing

@garysmith8073 Год назад

RONALD BELL WROTE CELEBRATE.

@cleftheart1969 Год назад

I prefer their 70s sound than 80's IMO but wish them well

@thankthelord4536 Год назад

Hollywood Swinging is my favorite. Loved these guys while they were more into funk music.

@marksaguindel1903 Год назад

I asked that question when JT joined the group. I liked them before that transition. They were less crossover. (Can't stand Celebration)

@greatnation4328 Год назад

Undoubtedly, cool and the gang left their footprints in the sands of time.

@mfcmfc8483 Год назад

I heard somewhere that kool and the game is the most sample group and hip-hop ever

@shaylah2725 Год назад

Get Down On It was my Auntie Anns favorite song 💚 RIP 🙏🏾

@davidlynn3631 Год назад

The got too pop that's what happened

@lamontsgymandcustomknives7385 Год назад

C and G one of the best R&B groups of the 80s #80smusic

@saj8 Год назад

Kool and the Gang made the right choice when they made JT the lead singer. If they didn't make that move, they would have never made it out of the 70s.

@davewollenberg1518 Год назад

J.T. Taylor should've stayed with the group.

@paulupton3841 Год назад

Thank you for this fitting tribute to one of the standout acts of the 70s and 80s (amongst such fierce competition from that golden era)❤️.

@myishahutchinson652 Год назад

I have been curious about what happened to this talented group. Could you please make a video about Donnie Simpson (formally from BET's Video Soul)? JT Taylor and Donnie Simpson always favored each other to me.

@GalaxyGyrl8888 Год назад

👍THISSS!!!☺️🎯💯👍

@rheeryder2524 Год назад

I wouldn't doubt they're STILL receiving Celebrate song royalties. I hear that song everywhere...in malls, every New Year's on TV, etc.

@beaniegee5129 Год назад

Love these stories so much

@ForeverFit72 Год назад

Fresh and Tonight were my jams when I was a kid and I loved the music videos. I can still picture the Solid Gold dancers jamming to both songs in the weekly countdown. Love this Channel!!!!

@derreckbrown3833 Год назад

Nothing can touch “Kool & the Gang Live at the Sex Machine” album. The musicianship, the dynamics…outstanding. Funky George on the drums…influenced an entire generation of drummers.

@benardjacan7021 Год назад

What happened to JT? I feel you missed him out.

@ddw349 Год назад

I always heard jealousy over JT

@lynej2011 Год назад

I thought that she would touch on that because he loathes his former band mates. He will not talk about Kool n the Gang AT ALL. I’m disappointed that wasn’t covered. Didn’t Kool transition? So much left out.

@thegoldenseatlife Год назад

"Fresh" is STILL my JAM!!!!!

@michaelburton1924 Год назад

Me too🕺🏽

@GalaxyGyrl8888 Год назад

👍YES!! One of my favorite musical gangs!!! Shout out to Mr.KOOL BELL! He’s REALLY a Kool dude/very down to earth person!!!🥳😎🌞☺️✨🎵🎯💯👍

@raybon7939 Год назад

I lived in the city next door union city.

@darrellsadler2848 Год назад

One of my all time favorite music bands!

@darrylcarter3691 Год назад

Do Earth wind and Fire

@jeancruise3313 Год назад

We don't have bands like this anymore I wish we did

@toneyisaiah3556 Год назад

The group had been together for a long time since the 1960s.

@jessejohnson3138 Год назад

My favorite band of all time

@martinanane3446 Год назад

My favorite Kool and the gang hits are: Stepping Out and Straight Ahead. Kool and the Gang was really popular in Anglophone West Africa, particularly, Ghana. They actually visited Ghana and performed a live show in 1988/89 thereabout.

@saj8 Год назад

Funky Stuff was inspired by Manu DiBango's Soul Makkosa.

@TakeScareMedia Год назад

I discovered them in the 80s when I found their cassette Tape EMERGENCY during recess at my elementary school and played that tape out!! Good times!!

@bernie2231 Год назад

Oh yes! Back in the day when pop music was played with real musical instruments, not computer programs. It was so much better then.

@siphomogale779 Год назад

One of the bands of all time

@chriso8193 Год назад

Fixit: It's called "Celebration"....not "Let's Have A Celebration"

@asarkodee Год назад

Amazing story of some seriously talented people. Great video as always😊

@kevinlawrence8580 Год назад

They should be in the Rock in Roll Hall of Fame

@darrylmilling2747 3 месяца назад

They will be this year

@jaynice6542 Год назад

Seriously they need their flowers

@KARIM_HAMZA Год назад

*One of if not the greatest band of all time.* *Unfortunately ever since lead singer James 'JT' Taylor left the band, no one could sing as good as him.*

@stevelawrence5268 Год назад

One of the most difficult metaphysical human emotional traits to appreciate within ones character , and this band did all this and much more the music spices and the lyrics and voices a perfectly marinate blend Its undeniable you're either KooL or you're Not

@kayodephillips5435 Год назад

Love this band

@rodneysmith3759 Год назад

Hollywood Swinging!!

@scoot1105 Год назад

It's a damn shame this band isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame!!!

@DaMixWizard Год назад

"Open Sesame" is one of favorite songs or instrumental song from Kool and The Gang. I immediately start dancing soon as the best drops

@irisdi58 8 месяцев назад

Me too

@thorntonwilliams3851 Год назад

Their late 60's and early- mid 70's stuff is their best sound.

@bluegreenwoodtiger Год назад

Bruno Mars is what happened to Kool & the Gang! The Karaoke singer stole their act!

@ptrco5 Год назад

Simply legendary to say the least. Continuous peace to the members who passed away. Long May they continue 🙌🏾 🎶 ❤️

@margaretmisher6350 Год назад

I grew up with this band and loved it they could not do anything wrong playing that good music 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

@robertshapiro-xu9di Год назад

I remember when they played jazz. Kool Jazz is a fabulous album

@chichijima4257 8 месяцев назад

One of my favor in the Clubs. Thank everyone of them to bring us the best…I still have Cassette players, Long Records and CD. Wish I had a Time Machine to bring them back…

@aubreytaylor7942 Год назад

Ricky West passed first in 1985

@eugeniaboone5602 Год назад

@Aubrey Taylor What happened to him? After he left for a solo career( which was short lived) he disappeared. They just said he passed away. Very little or no info on him.

@aubreytaylor7942 Год назад

@@eugeniaboone5602He passed away from cancer