Kool & The Gang ~ Hollywood Swinging 1974 Funky Purrfection Version

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  • Опубликовано: 23 фев 2023
  • "Soul Makossa" is a song that influenced the sound of disco and inspired Michael Jackson to write "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and also affected Kool & The Gang back in 1972.
    The tune was so hot and hard to get (it was an import from Cameroon) found in a New York record shop by DJ David Mancuso who immediately added it to his playlist. The response was overwhelming and scarce copies of the original by Manu Dibango led to covers being recorded to fill the void. Kool & The Gang were asked to re record the song and they went to the studio where they began riffing off the song and wrote three hit songs, "Jungle Boogie", "Funky Stuff" and "Hollywood Swinging" instead.
    Ricky West co wrote the song with the band and the story in the song actually happened to Ricky. Put down in the studio, it was wildly received and topped the R& B chart in June, 1974.
    Madnrill's "Fencewalk" (1973) was a song rhythm written in threes which Bayyan heard and them made that the bassline. The song was played by famed DJ Frankie Crocker of WBLS FM New York whose nickname was "Hollywood".
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Комментарии • 80

  • @saj8
    @saj8 Год назад +33

    New Jersey has always had a ton of legendary artists.

    • @AlbertoPerez-zu6wg
      @AlbertoPerez-zu6wg 10 месяцев назад +1

      Facts!

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 7 месяцев назад

      Kool and the gang from Jersey ?
      I didn't know that .

    • @saj8
      @saj8 7 месяцев назад

      @@v.dargain1678 Jersey City.

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 7 месяцев назад

      @@saj8 Well I sure learned something today .

  • @owensweetland342
    @owensweetland342 3 месяца назад +8

    I won four backstage passes from a local AM radio station. Kool and The Gang was opened by the group War. The year was 1976.

  • @JacquesMatory-nd2te
    @JacquesMatory-nd2te 22 дня назад +1

    Kool & the gang was one of the top bands when I was growing up dancing at the sock hops in jr High School, But not to many people knew that Kool & the gang also put out a album under a different name. That group's name was called The Kay Gees and there hit song on that album was called 'Keep on Bumpin' and it lead into the new dance craze the Bump and the Double Bump. The other groups that exploited the new dance craze called the Bump was the Commadores with there hit single named 'Do the Bump'. These two groups set the stage on the new Bump dancing music with these singles that rock the Dance floors with the coragraphic music that they played gave me a smooth rhythm on the dance floors. Classic unforgettable times for me and that will never be forgotten with me.

  • @styner3
    @styner3 Год назад +37

    The first bass line I learned to play at age 12 and I still love playing it at age 60.

    • @philsales7360
      @philsales7360 Год назад +1

      Learning musical 🎼 skills 😊

    • @REPOMAN24722
      @REPOMAN24722 Год назад

      My favorite bass lines is this and candy by cameo

  • @hermananderson
    @hermananderson Год назад +29

    The one thing that makes the Seventies the best decade ever in my opinion is the broad spectrum of the music 🎶 that came from it.
    With the sounds and genres emerging and evolving, the world 🌎 was playing a vast amount of different songs from different cultures and listening as well as enjoying it.
    This is one of the best examples of how artists were able to crossover from their own chart to another genre and not be called sellouts.
    And it still stands the test of time!

    • @ronaldwilliams4954
      @ronaldwilliams4954 Год назад +1

      🥁😩🥁👍💯

    • @ciaartin2221
      @ciaartin2221 9 месяцев назад +2

      @hermananderson The Seventies-arguably the birthdate of the OGs.😎

  • @Kitu74
    @Kitu74 Год назад +6

    Definitely capture the mood of the 70s a generation of Afro ,bell bottoms, fly cars and big fun all night long..I remember

  • @StephenSatterfieldTheSLSway
    @StephenSatterfieldTheSLSway Год назад +26

    Kool & the Gang sounds fresh as ever !!!

  • @davidhurley6593
    @davidhurley6593 Год назад +4

    I remember when this song come out 1974 back in the day I was 19 years old when came out how was you back then?

    • @MemoGrafix
      @MemoGrafix Год назад +2

      I was 8 & My Brothers played this left & right until one of My Brothers left the record on the bed forgetting it was there and stood up on the bed and stepped on the record. He was real upset and My Mother was happy because she wasn't gonna have to hear it being played all day.

  • @celioandrade1650
    @celioandrade1650 Год назад +4

    This song by Kool and The Gang was part of the Official WWE WrestleMania 39 Theme

  • @carrienixon6663
    @carrienixon6663 Год назад +12

    This song will always be at the top of my list. Yes indeed. HOLLYWOOD SWINGING. a down home Jam.

  • @eddiemiles1280
    @eddiemiles1280 Год назад +10

    Bought this 8 Track Tape 49 years ago in April... 10th Grade... Totally Badassssssssss! Loved it... 9 minutes and 30 seconds each track if I Remember correctly... Thank You! A++++

  • @mwarariwatamu
    @mwarariwatamu Год назад +13

    First time I heard this song was on GTA San Andreas.
    I fell in love with the instrumental and the whole arrangement ❤️💎

    • @ahn00bus510
      @ahn00bus510 Год назад +2

      Families 4 life!!!!

    • @johnjirehgarcia8382
      @johnjirehgarcia8382 10 месяцев назад +1

      Same. Bounce FM was the best GTA radio I ever heard

    • @mwarariwatamu
      @mwarariwatamu 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@johnjirehgarcia8382 GTA helped many of us live a fear free life

    • @johnjirehgarcia8382
      @johnjirehgarcia8382 10 месяцев назад

      @@mwarariwatamu ikr? Personally for me it's to make me more adventorous in picking my games and mingle with people who share my childhood playing GTA

  • @freespirit21newyork
    @freespirit21newyork Год назад +9

    OMG YES ‼️ 1 of my favorites by Kool and the GANG ✨🗽✨🥃🍾✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🗽✨🌟✨🗽✨🌟✨

  • @HeavenlyRaven1978
    @HeavenlyRaven1978 9 месяцев назад +3

    This was a Great Roller Skatin' song 🛼 I LOVE THIS SONG 🎶

  • @blackprix
    @blackprix Год назад +30

    70s R&B and this song was huge what a great way to start a weekend coming up by listening to this! Love the remix as usual❤

  • @vigeram6041
    @vigeram6041 Год назад +12

    Funk jazz tunes all day and all night long I love it.

  • @randallgarza4065
    @randallgarza4065 Месяц назад +2

    Funk at its best

  • @lena-mariaglouis-charles7036
    @lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 Год назад +16

    Fabulous FUNK done to PURRFECTION!
    Expertly remixed and extended - THANKS, DJDiscoCat!💕

  • @fernandocalimanomartinex7988
    @fernandocalimanomartinex7988 Год назад +7

    I remember when kool & da gang started,before they recording it was in da Bronx,69 or 70 they did a gig in a highschool yard.da name of da song was kool & da gang. Iwas hooked ever since!

  • @almalapalma
    @almalapalma Год назад +20

    Woooww!! You made my day 😊 Almost a teen when I started dancing "the bump" , copying my aunt's moves to this song. Great memories.🥰 Thanks a bunch!

  • @thecunninlynguist
    @thecunninlynguist Год назад +5

    Take hits from the 80s...do it sound so crazy? Bad bad boy you make me feel so good

  • @GetBenched2010
    @GetBenched2010 Год назад +9

    Truly great music always survives.

  • @felixdacat6572
    @felixdacat6572 Год назад +7

    Summertime Struttin down the Coney Island Boardwalk in Brooklyn, Blasting this jam on my Bose speakers headed for Nathans Franks for a hot dog and a beer...Life is simple and life is good...Check this one off the bucket list...Thanks.

  • @blancamorales7216
    @blancamorales7216 Год назад +4

    Dance dance yeah happy dance thanks DJ Disco Cat💃🕺🎧🎶♥️👍🎶

  • @PauloRomanini
    @PauloRomanini Год назад +6

    Takes me back to the Unity Station Lowrider battles, in Los Santos.

  • @dannygutierrez7941
    @dannygutierrez7941 Год назад +4

    More or less, it was an intro to the Disco era. I remember bumping with my 2 sisters in HS. Later, We went to the Last National Bank, the top Disco in the San Antonio area. I also remember the LNB had no competition.

  • @lovebuzz1979
    @lovebuzz1979 Год назад +5

    Holly Wooooood!!! 💗🎉🕺 Excellent choice Dj Disco!

  • @rontaylor5006
    @rontaylor5006 Год назад +4

    Oh this is going straight to the Playlist

  • @komalkumar9073
    @komalkumar9073 Год назад +7

    Great Composition
    Super Quality👌 🌹

  • @deeeley2241
    @deeeley2241 Год назад +7

    🎵🎶 my jam 🎤🎶🎵💃

  • @TyroneEpps
    @TyroneEpps 6 месяцев назад +2

    This version is hot 😊 !

  • @joepacheco3256
    @joepacheco3256 Год назад +2

    Talk about bringing back some memories, this is one tough jam!

  • @ahn00bus510
    @ahn00bus510 Год назад +3

    Just keeping it real... i first heard this from Gta San Andreas shame on our Radio Stations just saying!!! Lovely Classic!!!

  • @ronaldstrik
    @ronaldstrik Год назад +3

    Nice to read the background information about this song which I hear now for the first time. I know only the later songs. Nice and funky❤. Thanks for this one.

  • @rayofsunshine107h
    @rayofsunshine107h Год назад +4

    Yeaaassssss!

  • @willieroller7208
    @willieroller7208 7 месяцев назад

    The Era of all music 🎶 was music jamming hard having fun no fighting no shooting just down right fun period

  • @lindadyess
    @lindadyess Год назад +3

    I love it

  • @user-ev5hn2oi2o
    @user-ev5hn2oi2o Год назад +2

    SA Disco Club :))

  • @charanjeetgupta240
    @charanjeetgupta240 Год назад +3

    It sounds familiar and I think I've heard this when I ride a car in GTA San Andreas.

  • @jeffbrown1396
    @jeffbrown1396 10 месяцев назад +1

    The best band from Jersey

  • @danielvitullo7104
    @danielvitullo7104 Год назад +1

    Awesome lollapaloza

  • @anthologyapchallengeyingya8881
    @anthologyapchallengeyingya8881 13 дней назад

    Thank you like me many phases very open been there many colors 😅

  • @hansinternett7661
    @hansinternett7661 Год назад +2

    thank you so much for your great remixes, i'm a fan of their early stuff. especially like your revelatory and personal commentary to all remixed tracks, outstanding for a long term collector and dj in the early 80s. greetings from vienna, austria.

  • @darlanunn1378
    @darlanunn1378 6 месяцев назад

    I remember as a kid I heard this song an loved it ❤

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha Год назад +2

    When Yu step each time once on da beat one foot atta time 😆

  • @barrygreen3829
    @barrygreen3829 Год назад +2

    😊👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👍🏿

  • @MisterBeauJanGels
    @MisterBeauJanGels Год назад +2

    Five words: let me clear my throat.

  • @c.c.hiliner1065
    @c.c.hiliner1065 Год назад +1

    Played this 45 out the Door!
    As a kid!

  • @itsjrStudios
    @itsjrStudios Год назад +3

    I would like you to make a long purrfection version of Sandy Marton's Camel by Camel

  • @out_running_erins9118
    @out_running_erins9118 Год назад +2

    😍😍😍

  • @marG520
    @marG520 8 месяцев назад

    Great dance music got me going❤

  • @pathygonzalez2833
    @pathygonzalez2833 4 дня назад

    🎶🔥

  • @moisesmazate4522
    @moisesmazate4522 Год назад +3

    Okay

  • @jakethekipper
    @jakethekipper Год назад +2

    ❤️❤️❤️😉👍

  • @perfectsims
    @perfectsims Год назад +4

    💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗🥰☀️💎🪷🙏

  • @ricpasley3110
    @ricpasley3110 Год назад +1

    Welcome to WWE Wrestlemania 39

  • @luizfelipelages5582
    @luizfelipelages5582 Год назад +1

    Mission of GTA SAN AMDREAS!

  • @frankbullitt1966
    @frankbullitt1966 Год назад +1

    😎👍

  • @moisescarlos14
    @moisescarlos14 Год назад +3

    GTA San andreas

  • @ThisisABA1
    @ThisisABA1 Год назад

    @DjDiscoCat Please release your version of Maybe by Chantels🙏🙏🙏

  • @RunTFC
    @RunTFC Год назад +1

    This has always been my jam. *but :35 - :45?

  • @aaronjohnson2843
    @aaronjohnson2843 6 месяцев назад

    Now the states largest city,not Newark

  • @ryank.5960
    @ryank.5960 3 месяца назад

    Mase sampled a good one

  • @c.c.hiliner1065
    @c.c.hiliner1065 Год назад

    Disco Cat!
    You gotta remix " Duiji" !!!