Too Hot to Stop explained

Too Hot to Stop
Type:Album
Artist:The Bar-Kays
Cover:Barkays-toohottostop-1976.jpg
Released:October 1976
Recorded:1976
Genre:Funk
Length:35:58
Label:Mercury
SRM-1-1099[1]
Producer:Allen Jones
Prev Title:Coldblooded
Prev Year:1974
Next Title:Flying High on Your Love
Next Year:1977

Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group The Bar-Kays.[2] [3] It was their first album for Mercury Records.[4] It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk". "Too Hot To Stop, Pt. 1", the first song on the album, is best known for playing at the start of the 2007 comedy film Superbad.

Critical reception

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk." Despite this review, Too Hot To Stop is considered by funk fans to be one of the very best Bar-Kays albums. Its content caused George Clinton, leader of Parliament-Funkadelic, to invite the Bar-Kays to be one of the opening acts on his band's legendary 1976-77 P-Funk Earth Tour.

Track list

  1. "Too Hot To Stop, Pt. 1" (Fred Freeman, Harry Nehls III, Larry Dodson, James Alexander, Michael Beard, Winston Stewart, Lloyd Smith, Charles Allen, Harvey Henderson, Frank Thompson) - 6:31
  2. "Cozy" (James Banks, Henderson Thigpen) - 3:36
  3. "Bang, Bang (Stick 'Em Up)" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:48
  4. "Spellbound" (Banks, Thigpen) - 5:05
  5. "Shake Your Rump to the Funk" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:52
  6. "You're So Sexy" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 3:53
  7. "Summer of Our Love" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) - 4:25
  8. "Whitehouseorgy" (Howard Redmond, L. Hendricks, R. CoCo, P. Kibbie) - 4:48

Notes and References

  1. Book: Thompson, Dave. Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. December 11, 2018. Penguin. 9781440248917. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Bar-Kays | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Book: Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. April 15, 1996. Macmillan. 9780312134990. Google Books.
  4. Book: Thompson, Dave. Funk. November 21, 2001. Hal Leonard Corporation. 9780879306298. Google Books.

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