Too Hot to Stop

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Too Hot to Stop
File:Barkays-toohottostop-1976.jpg
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)

Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group the Bar-Kays.[3][4] It was their first album for Mercury Records.[5] It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk".

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStar[6]
The New Rolling Stone Record GuideStarStar[7]

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk".[7] The album prompted 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 listing

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  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

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