KOOL & THE GANG
Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, funk and disco group, originally formed in 1964 as the Jazziacs based in Jersey City, New Jersey. They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of funk and R&B, progressing to a smooth pop-funk ensemble, and in the post-millennium creating music with a modern, electro-pop sound. They have sold over 70 million albums worldwide. (More from Wikipedia)
For those wanting to hear ’em like they used to be, I live in a casino town, so a lot of the oldies acts come through here. I set aside a more or less random Marquee newspaper insert covering entertainment options down here (from October 2011). Here are the better known acts that were listed, and this is by no means everybody who was in town over those several weeks: Herman’s Hermits (featuring Peter Noone), Loretta Lynn, Frankie Avalon, Tommy James and the Shondells, David Cassidy, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Kool & the Gang, Merle Haggard, and the Four Tops.
(January 2012)
