Too Hot to Stop

Too Hot to Stop
Studio album by
the Bar-Kays
ReleasedOctober 1976
Recorded1976
GenreFunk
Length35:58
LabelsMercury
SRM-1-1099
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. It was their first album for Mercury Records. It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk".

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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The New Rolling Stone Record GuideStarStar

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk".

Track listing

  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

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