Limited 13 CD set. With a cannon of more than 20 albums, Kool & the Gang are one of the most sampled Bands in music history. From their roots in the mid-late '60s, the Band has explored many musical styles from
jazz and
soul, funk and
rock,
R&B/
Pop, with Gene Redd at the helm for their first handful of albums. The Albums 1 1970-1978 is the first of two box sets that cover the Band's first 20 years. The set contains 119 tracks across 13 CDs, from the Band's twelve studio and live albums, released worldwide from 1970's debut Kool & the Gang and 1978's Everybody's Dancin', as well as a bonus Singles Selection disc, containing singles edits and non-LP tracks. Kool & the Gang's musical legacy remains in full force with their brand of melodic
jazz, funk
soul and
pop.
Tracks:-------
Disc: 1 Kool And The Gang (1969) 1 Kool & the Gang
2 Breeze &
Soul3 Chocolate Buttermilk
4 Sea of Tranquility
5 Give It Up
6 Since I Lost My Baby
7 Kools Back Again
8 The Gangs Back Again
9 Raw Hamburger
Disc: 2 Live At The Sex Machine (1971) 1 Medley: What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind
2 Walk on By
3 Chocolate Buttermilk
4 Trying to Make a Fool of Me
5 Who's Gonna Take the Weight Part 1 & 2
6 Pneumonia
7 Wichita Lineman
8 I Want to Take You Higher
9 Funky Man
10 The Touch of You
Disc: 3 Live At P.J.'s (1971) 1 N.T
2 Ricksonata
3 Sombrero Sam
4 Ronnie's Groove
5 Ike's Mood/You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
6 Lucky for Me
7 Dujii
Disc: 4 Music Is The Message (1972) 1 Music Is the Message
2 Electric Frog (Part 1)
3 Electric Frog (Part 2)
4
Soul Vibrations
5 Love the Life You Live (Part 1) } Segued As Per the Original LP
6 Love the Life You Live (Part 2)
7 Stop, Look & Listen
8 Blowing with the Wind
9 Funky Granny
Disc: 5 Good Times (1972) 1 Good Times
2 Country Junky
3 Wild Is Love
4 North, East, South, West
5 Making Merry Music
6 I Remember John w. Coltrane
7 Rated X
8 Father, Father
Disc: 6 Wild And Peaceful (1973) 1 Funky Stuff
2 More Funky Stuff
3 Jungle Boogie
4 Heaven at Once
5 Hollywood Swinging
6 This Is You, This Is Me
7 Life Is What You Make It
8 Wild and Peaceful
Disc: 7 Light Of Worlds (1974) 1 Street Corner Symphony
2 Fruitman
3 Rhyme Tyme People
4 Light of Worlds
5 Whiting H. & G
6 You Don't Have to Change
7 Higher Plane
8 Summer Madness
9 Here After
Disc: 8 Spirit Of The Boogie (1975) 1 Spirit of the Boogie
2 Ride the Rhythm
3 Jungle
Jazz4 Sunshine and Love
5 Ancestral Ceremony
6 Mother Earth
7 Winter Sadness
8 Caribbean Festival
Disc: 9 Love & Understanding (1976) 1 Love & Understanding
2 Sugar
3 Do It Right Now
4 Cosmic Energy
5 Hollywood Swinging [Live]
6 Summer Madness [Live]
7 Universal Sound [Live]
8 Come Together [Live]
Disc: 10 Open Sesame (1976) 1 Open Sesame
2 Gift of Love
3 Little Children
4 All Night Long
5 Whisper Softly
6 Super Band
7 L-O-V-E
8 Sunshine
Disc: 11 The Force (1977) 1 A Place in Space
2 Slick Superchick
3 Just Be True
4 The Force
5 Mighty Mighty High
6 Oasis
7 Life's a Song
8 Free
Disc: 12 Everybody's Dancin' (1978) 1 Everybody's Dancin'
2 Dancin' Shoes
3 Big Chief Funkum
4 I Like Music
5 You Deserve a Break Today
6 At the Party
7 Stay Awhile
8 It's All You Need
9 Peace to the Universe
Disc: 13 Singles Selection (2022) 1 Raw Hamburger
2 Let the Music Take Your Mind
3 Can't Stop (Doing It to You)
4 Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)
5 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
6 Who's Gonna Take the Weight (Part One)
7 Pneumonia
8 The Penguin
9 Higher Plane
10 Spirit of the Boogie
11 Caribbean Festival
12 Caribbean Festival (
Disco Version)
13 Get Down with the Boogie
14 Open Sesame (Groove with the Genie)
15 Love & Understanding (Come Together)
16 Super Band
17 Slick Superchick
18 Everybody's Dancin'
All thanks to original releaser