Too Hot to Stop

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Too Hot to Stop
Studio album by
The Bar-Kays
ReleasedOctober 1976
Recorded1976
GenreFunk[1]
Length35:58
LabelMercury
SRM-1-1099[2]
ProducerAllen Jones
The Bar-Kays chronology
Coldblooded
(1974) 		Too Hot to Stop
(1976) 		Flying High on Your Love
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide[4]

Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group The Bar-Kays.[5][6] It was their first album for Mercury Records.[7] It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk". The song is best known for playing at the start of the 2007 comedy film Superbad.

Critical reception[edit]

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk."[4] 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.[citation needed]

Track list[edit]

  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

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Too Hot to Stop - Bar-Kays | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Thompson, Dave (December 11, 2018). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440248917 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 413.
  4. ^ a b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 28.
  5. ^ "Bar-Kays | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Vincent, Rickey (April 15, 1996). Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312134990 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Thompson, Dave (November 21, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306298 – via Google Books.


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