Ladies Night (CD)

Kool & The Gang were one of the most popular outfits to emerge from the 1970s funk/R&B movement. They began life as a hard-grooving funk band, hitting big with "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging," but they later incorporated disco and pop into their sound. Their greatest success actually came after disco began to fade, with their classic 1981 pop smash (and subsequent sports anthem/wedding favorite) "Celebration." Kool & the Gang would regularly scale the charts with both slow jams like "Joanna" and "Cherish" and party anthems like "Fresh" and "Victory" throughout the '80s, continuing to tour and record for decades.

• Category:  Music  »  R&B  »  Funk
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: March 14, 2006
• Label: Collectables
• UPC: 090431842126
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106086304
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #61164 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #3072 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #180 in Funk (See Top 100 Funk Bestsellers)

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By the time LADIES NIGHT was released in 1979, the dirty, earthy funk of songs like "Jungle Boogie" had been almost completely expunged from Kool & the Gang's sound. With new producer Eumir Deodato at the boards, LADIES NIGHT showed the Gang moving toward a slick, lighter pop sound. The formula worked wonders, spawning a runaway R&B chart-topper in the title track. Though steady backbeats and thumping basslines still dominate, the whole thing has been given a slightly jazzy, high-gloss sheen.

In addition to the dance-floor favorite "Ladies Night" (with its singalong chorus), "If You Feel Like Dancing" and "Tonight's the Night" also incite listeners--both lyrically and musically--to get down. Elsewhere, the album is strong on polished, romantic R&B that spotlights the ensemble's soulful vocals. "Got You into My Life" rides a mid-tempo groove in the ballad mode, as does the seductive sway of "Too Hot," featuring intimate, smooth-as-butter singing by lead vocalist James "J.T." Taylor. These songs premiered the sound that would make Kool & the Gang one of the most popular pop acts of the '80s.

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