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Too Hot to Stop

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{{Infobox album

| name = Too Hot to Stop

| type = Album

| artist = the Bar-Kays

| cover = Barkays-toohottostop-1976.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 1976

| recorded = 1976

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Funk

| length = 35:58

| label = Mercury
SRM-1-1099{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=plDUDwAAQBAJ&dq=bar-kays+goldmine&pg=PA48|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=December 11, 2018|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440248917|via=Google Books}}

| producer = Allen Jones

| prev_title = Coldblooded

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Flying High on Your Love

| next_year = 1977

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Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group the Bar-Kays.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bar-kays-mn0000048300/biography|title=Bar-Kays | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9ales-rSngC&q=Too+Hot+to+Stop+bar-kays&pg=PA337|title=Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One|first=Rickey|last=Vincent|date=April 15, 1996|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312134990|via=Google Books}} It was their first album for Mercury Records.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIEjkWXZdrMC&q=Too+Hot+to+Stop+bar-kays&pg=PA74|title=Funk|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=November 21, 2001|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306298|via=Google Books}} It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk".

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/too-hot-to-stop-mw0000185546|title=Too Hot to Stop - Bar-Kays | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=1 |page=413}}

|rev3 = The New Rolling Stone Record Guide

|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Record Guide |date=1983 |publisher=Random House |page=28}}

}}

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk." Despite this review, "Too Hot to Stop" is considered by funk fans to be one of the very best Bar-Kays albums. Its content caused 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|date=December 2023}}

Track list

  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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Category:1976 albums

Category:Bar-Kays albums

Category:Mercury Records albums

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