Reviews at the time were unsparingly harsh. "Kool and the Gang have gone bland," the Detroit Free Press wrote in one typical piece on 1978's Everybody's Dancin'. "They've joined the disco lemmings ...

It’s a testament to just how popular these songs were ... relied heavily on Kool & the Gang’s 1974 smash “Summer Madness.” “We did ‘Summer Madness ‘ and Will Smith called it ...

It’s a pretty smooth collection of adult contemporary R&B songs and the versatile Brown, who at various points played keyboards with Kool & The Gang, played most of the album’s instruments ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You can call the music of Kool & the Gang funky or R&B ... one of the wake-up songs was “Celebration.” That party-time juggernaut was inducted into the Grammy Hall of ...

Warwick, who lives in South Orange, was one of two New Jersey inductees honored at this year’s ceremony — the other was Jersey City’s Kool & the Gang ... with the 1974 hit “Hollywood ...

PERHAPS ONE OF THE GREATEST CELEBRATORY SONGS IN HISTORY BY TIME TO COME ... I FEEL LIKE THEY MIGHT TAKE MY CARD IF I GET IT WRONG. KOOL AND THE GANG. RIGHT. YEAH. IT’S THAT COOL IN THE GAME.

Talib Kweli performed two new songs as well, we’re told ... Tia Sinclair — Kool & The Gang’s manager and widow of founding member Ronald “Khalis” Bell — planned the party, and the ...

“That still sticks with me to this day.” Taylor had covered some Kool & the Gang songs in his early years, and at one point, Fillet of Soul got to open for the band. He tried to meet ...