For those of us who have been into Prince's music from early one, you might remember a British group named Ebony Webb that was very influenced by Prince, Mainly Dirty Mind. Late in 82, they released a song called Too Hot to be Cool. It was so influenced by the Prince sound, many of us thought is was a Prince group. Fast forward to 1986, Prince's group Mazarati releases 100mph and one of the chorus lines is "Much to hot to be cool". I often wondered if that was Prince's way of giving Ebony Webb a shout out.

Hey, that's not a bad jam.

And this about the group:

Allen Jones (d. 1987[1]) was an American record producer.

Jones produced several albums for Albert King, and became the producer and manager for The Bar-Kays. He produced all of their records including their last records for Mercury Records. He formed their production company, and produced other acts such as Quick on EMI and executive produced Ebony Webb, also on EMI. Jones was a very successful songwriter covered by the likes of Elvis Costello and Albert King. Jones started out as a bass player, and ended up owning his own studio in Memphis, Tennessee. He gave many artists and musicians opportunities to work in the recording industry, long before there were college classes on the music business. Jones knew a hit record and blossomed at Stax Records as a writer, producer and recording engineer. Jones won a Grammy for his input on Shaft. He lived to be in the studio and helped to make a name for Ardent Studios. He stayed in Studio A of Ardent for almost 10 years. Jones kept The Bar-Kays with albums and tour dates until the day he died.

Man that is really good to know. I eally use to like that song. FUnny thing, I thought that O'Bryan's I'm Freaky was actually Ebony Webb when I first heard it. Another great tune.

Burning since 86 No, seriously nice question