Kool & The Gang ~ Hollywood Swinging 1974 Funky Purrfection Version

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  • Опубліковано 23 лют 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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  • @StephenSatterfieldTheSLSway
    @StephenSatterfieldTheSLSway Рік тому +26

    Kool & the Gang sounds fresh as ever !!!

  • @carrienixon6663
    @carrienixon6663 Рік тому +12

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

  • @owensweetland342
    @owensweetland342 4 місяці тому +9

    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.

  • @freespirit21newyork
    @freespirit21newyork Рік тому +9

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

  • @styner3
    @styner3 Рік тому +37

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

    • @philsales7360
      @philsales7360 Рік тому +1

      Learning musical 🎼 skills 😊

    • @REPOMAN24722
      @REPOMAN24722 Рік тому

      My favorite bass lines is this and candy by cameo

  • @vigeram6041
    @vigeram6041 Рік тому +12

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

  • @eddiemiles1280
    @eddiemiles1280 Рік тому +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++++

  • @randallgarza4065
    @randallgarza4065 Місяць тому +2

    Funk at its best

  • @blackprix
    @blackprix Рік тому +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❤

  • @saj8
    @saj8 Рік тому +33

    New Jersey has always had a ton of legendary artists.

    • @AlbertoPerez-zu6wg
      @AlbertoPerez-zu6wg 10 місяців тому +1

      Facts!

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 7 місяців тому

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

    • @saj8
      @saj8 7 місяців тому

      @@v.dargain1678 Jersey City.

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 7 місяців тому

      @@saj8 Well I sure learned something today .

  • @GetBenched2010
    @GetBenched2010 Рік тому +9

    Truly great music always survives.

  • @deeeley2241
    @deeeley2241 Рік тому +7

    🎵🎶 my jam 🎤🎶🎵💃

  • @fernandocalimanomartinex7988
    @fernandocalimanomartinex7988 Рік тому +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!

  • @blancamorales7216
    @blancamorales7216 Рік тому +4

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

  • @Kitu74
    @Kitu74 Рік тому +6

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

  • @hermananderson
    @hermananderson Рік тому +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 Рік тому +1

      🥁😩🥁👍💯

    • @ciaartin2221
      @ciaartin2221 9 місяців тому +2

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

  • @almalapalma
    @almalapalma Рік тому +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!

  • @lena-mariaglouis-charles7036
    @lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 Рік тому +16

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

  • @HeavenlyRaven1978
    @HeavenlyRaven1978 9 місяців тому +3

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

  • @PauloRomanini
    @PauloRomanini Рік тому +6

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

  • @JacquesMatory-nd2te
    @JacquesMatory-nd2te 27 днів тому +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.

  • @komalkumar9073
    @komalkumar9073 Рік тому +7

    Great Composition
    Super Quality👌 🌹

  • @lovebuzz1979
    @lovebuzz1979 Рік тому +5

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

  • @felixdacat6572
    @felixdacat6572 Рік тому +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.

  • @thecunninlynguist
    @thecunninlynguist Рік тому +5

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

  • @rontaylor5006
    @rontaylor5006 Рік тому +4

    Oh this is going straight to the Playlist

  • @dannygutierrez7941
    @dannygutierrez7941 Рік тому +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.

  • @joepacheco3256
    @joepacheco3256 Рік тому +2

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

  • @lindadyess
    @lindadyess Рік тому +3

    I love it

  • @TyroneEpps
    @TyroneEpps 6 місяців тому +2

    This version is hot 😊 !

  • @mwarariwatamu
    @mwarariwatamu Рік тому +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 Рік тому +2

      Families 4 life!!!!

    • @johnjirehgarcia8382
      @johnjirehgarcia8382 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @mwarariwatamu
      @mwarariwatamu 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @johnjirehgarcia8382
      @johnjirehgarcia8382 10 місяців тому

      @@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

  • @rayofsunshine107h
    @rayofsunshine107h Рік тому +4

    Yeaaassssss!

  • @davidhurley6593
    @davidhurley6593 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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.

  • @ronaldstrik
    @ronaldstrik Рік тому +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.

  • @darlanunn1378
    @darlanunn1378 6 місяців тому

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

  • @celioandrade1650
    @celioandrade1650 Рік тому +4

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

  • @anthologyapchallengeyingya8881
    @anthologyapchallengeyingya8881 17 днів тому

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

  • @willieroller7208
    @willieroller7208 7 місяців тому

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

  • @danielvitullo7104
    @danielvitullo7104 Рік тому +1

    Awesome lollapaloza

  • @barrygreen3829
    @barrygreen3829 Рік тому +2

    😊👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👍🏿

  • @out_running_erins9118
    @out_running_erins9118 Рік тому +2

    😍😍😍

  • @ahn00bus510
    @ahn00bus510 Рік тому +3

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

  • @jeffbrown1396
    @jeffbrown1396 10 місяців тому +1

    The best band from Jersey

  • @marG520
    @marG520 8 місяців тому

    Great dance music got me going❤

  • @user-ev5hn2oi2o
    @user-ev5hn2oi2o Рік тому +2

    SA Disco Club :))

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha Рік тому +2

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

  • @charanjeetgupta240
    @charanjeetgupta240 Рік тому +3

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

  • @hansinternett7661
    @hansinternett7661 Рік тому +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.

  • @jakethekipper
    @jakethekipper Рік тому +2

    ❤️❤️❤️😉👍

  • @pathygonzalez2833
    @pathygonzalez2833 8 днів тому

    🎶🔥

  • @frankbullitt1966
    @frankbullitt1966 Рік тому +1

    😎👍

  • @itsjrStudios
    @itsjrStudios Рік тому +3

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

  • @MisterBeauJanGels
    @MisterBeauJanGels Рік тому +2

    Five words: let me clear my throat.

  • @perfectsims
    @perfectsims Рік тому +4

    💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗🥰☀️💎🪷🙏

  • @moisesmazate4522
    @moisesmazate4522 Рік тому +3

    Okay

  • @luizfelipelages5582
    @luizfelipelages5582 Рік тому +1

    Mission of GTA SAN AMDREAS!

  • @ricpasley3110
    @ricpasley3110 Рік тому +1

    Welcome to WWE Wrestlemania 39

  • @c.c.hiliner1065
    @c.c.hiliner1065 Рік тому +1

    Played this 45 out the Door!
    As a kid!

  • @RunTFC
    @RunTFC Рік тому +1

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

  • @ThisisABA1
    @ThisisABA1 Рік тому

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

  • @moisescarlos14
    @moisescarlos14 Рік тому +3

    GTA San andreas

  • @aaronjohnson2843
    @aaronjohnson2843 6 місяців тому

    Now the states largest city,not Newark

  • @ryank.5960
    @ryank.5960 3 місяці тому

    Mase sampled a good one

  • @c.c.hiliner1065
    @c.c.hiliner1065 Рік тому

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