http://www.youtube.com/wa...4q67930kfs

Something About You

http://www.youtube.com/wa...8oW_xHvjwc

Too Hot To Be Cool

http://www.youtube.com/wa...tw2gnk5fBg

Keep On Steppin'

http://www.youtube.com/wa...teOBKnATGc

Anybody Wanna Dance

Something About You


Too Hot To Be Cool



Keep On Steppin'




Anybody Wanna Dance




fixed it for you

This was a very underrated funk band. How many albums did they have?

TonyVanDam said:

Two.

vainandy said:

Damn! Those tracks are funky!

vainandy said:

Great stuff, my dad loves this funky stuff and got me into music like that when I was little.

*JAMS*

Yeah this was hawt. Vain sent me this cd with the help of my J&T set a while ago.

wow. yeah - it's pretty direct rip of early Prince. Well done...but wow. ripped!

I have not heard that stuff in a while.

I got two words..

BONE SHAKERS!



well, maybe four..

STOP PLAYIN!..

emilio319 said:

He forgot to post Here my Love Is.

I never knew it until recently, but they had an album in the late 70s that sounded nothing like the work on their other two albums. One of the ex-orgers, 100MPH, posted a picture of it a few years ago.

Almost as hot as you.

When that jam first came out in 1981, we all thought it was Prince.

I've never heard that one. It must be on their "Too Hot" album. I only have their self titled album and a download of the song "Too Hot To Be Cool".

I gotta get their two albums!! This stuff is funky.

vainandy said:

I googled it, and found a thread at some funk forum,

http://www.funkhome.com/r...t1668.html

Looks like they had TWO albums in the late seventies. Never seen either one of them, though.

SoulAlive said:

So, apparently, there are four albums

Well, the two 80s albums are the only ones I've ever come by.
Their self-titled effort (the one with the red cover) is easy to find, and yea, you should definitely pick it up

vainandy said:

Yes it's on the Too Hot album. I posted the video on the org back in March
after i bought their self titled album. Apparently the user on youtube
removed the video.
Damn that song is funky.
It kind of had a Yarborough & Peoples feel to it.
[Edited 6/16/09 23:03pm]

Zannaloaf said:

It makes sense.....because they were discovered by & produced by THE BAR-KAYS!!!!!, whose 70's/80's material was 90% BITTEN!!!!! They "swagger jacked" SOOOOO many artists it should be a CRIME!!!!!

Prince was no exception.....

woogiebear said:

Ebonee Webb was not produced by the BarKays. Ebonee Webb was produced by
Allen Jones who also produced the barkays. Allen Jones also produced another
80's obscure band Kwick. In fact, Barkays keyboardist Winston Stewart is the
only member who played on Ebonee Webb albums. Now whether or not they
discovered Ebonee Webb and introduced them to Allen Jones i'm not sure.

phunkdaddy said:

The guys who formed Kwick used to be called The Newcomers. They recorded for Stax, and were used as an opening act for their artists (incl. The Bar-Kays) when they performed live.
[Edited 6/17/09 10:19am]

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Cool tidbit.

yall from tx dont remember bone shakers???

andi had been lookin forit...i kept gettin level 42.

Damn that song sounds like HEAD...that is a straight rip!

phunkdaddy said:

Allen Jones was the "Invisible Bar-Kay" as far as i'm concerned
And seeing that 90% of the Bar-Kays material in the 70's/80's
was "direct rip-offs" of something else.....
PUT TWO and TWO TOGETHER!!!!!

"Something About You"= "Soft And Wet"
.....I REST MY CASE!!!!!

In the end....they fall under the "Bar-Kays Umbrella"!!!!!