Funk major Robert Bell is better known by this name, especially when working with "The Gang"
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The 10 Best Kool & The Gang Songs - Stereogum  Nov 24, 2014 ... The Kool in Kool & The Gang is bassist/singer Robert Kool Bell, who ... Originally known at the Jazziacs, the Jersey City act cut its teeth in local ... By the early '70s, the funk had taken over, and K&TG notched their first major pop hits: ... gone, the result sounded like the work of a completely different act.
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Robert Bell - Revolvy  Robert Earl "Kool" Bell , also known by his Muslim name Muhammad Bayyan , (born October ... He moved to Bytown , where he began work as a surveyor. ..... "Higher Plane" is the name of a hit song by R&B / funk band Kool & the Gang and .... Robert Lewis Bell (January 18, 1922  December 8, 1997), better known as Bob...
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Robert "Kool" Bell - Wikipedia  Robert Earl "Kool" Bell, also known by his Muslim name Muhammad Bayyan, (born October 8, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the founding member of the jazz/R&B/soul/funk/disco band, Kool & the Gang. ... sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.
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Kool & the Gang - Revolvy  Kool & the Gang is an American jazz , R&B , soul , funk , and disco group, ... Early success In 1964, thirteen-year-old Robert Bell, his brother Ronald and five ... They changed their name to 'Kool & the Flames' in 1967, then 'Kool & the Gang' in ...... The album became their first major success especially after the release of the...
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Kool and the Gang - Revolvy  Kool & the Gang is an American jazz , R&B , soul , funk , and disco group, ... Early success In 1964, thirteen-year-old Robert Bell, his brother Ronald and five ... The album included two major hits on the US Hot 100 Chart : "Victory" (US #10, ..... John W. Bowman Jr. (born 1958), better known by his stage name DJ Kool , is an...
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200 GREATEST FUNK SONGS  200 GREATEST FUNK SONGS ... Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine) Part I - James Brown 2. ... Out of Sight - James Brown & The Famous Flames 23. ... Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud, Part I - James Brown ... Play That Funky Music (White Boy) - Wild Cherry .... Atomic Dog - George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars
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The Alan Price Rhythm & Blues Combo | Biography & History ...  In the group's rather confusing genesis, keyboardist Price had played with singer Eric Burdon and ... Burdon eventually joined the group, and John Steel came aboard in ... name when they made their first recording, the four-song EP I Just Wanna ... Late in 1963, the outfit's name was changed to the Animals, and shortly after...
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What's in a Name?  #5 | NED ROCK  Jan 2, 2015 ... By 1982, the band had atrophied to six members and would go on to receive ... April 1989, when their song She Drives Me Crazy leapt to number one ... of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker and starred Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. ... band, in particular, a band that named themselves after a movie on which...
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Here's a dapper fellow, a drummer named Buddy Mawson, posed ...  I need to make my own drum kit and put it in the back yard .... but he is also been playing drums for a long time and is the master of his . .... Drum kit Shared by The Lewis Hamilton Band ... Drummed with bandleaders Tommy Dorsey & Artie Shaw. ..... Here we have none other than drum legend Buddy Rich, seen here as a...
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Savion Glover | American dancer | Britannica.com  May 11, 2016 ... In 1995 Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk opened Off-Broadway. ... Jimmy Doyle (left) and Harland Dixon, performers known for a dance style called .... of Forrest Gump, Superman, and other famous media characters.
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G-funk - Wikipedia  G-funk, or gangsta-funk, is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. ... Music theorist Adam Krims has described G-funk as "a style of generally West Coast rap ... Too Short's lazy, drawl-heavy delivery was also a major influence on later G-funk rappers like Snoop Dogg.
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A composer and pianist, Scott Joplin is known as the "king of ragtime."  Rare Framed Martin Luther King Special FDC First Day Issue Stamp NY Times Jan 13 1979 ..... Bessie Coleman Black Heritage Stamp | Flickr - Photo Sharing! .... Jackie Robinson August 2, 1982 Jackie Robinson is honored by the U.S. Postal Service ... I come from a family of writers and Langston Hughes has been very...
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Gary Busey - Wikipedia  William Gary Busey is an American actor. He has appeared in over 150 films, including Lethal ... He played in a band called Carp, which released one album on Epic Records in 1969. Busey continued ... to play the role. In 1978, he starred as rock legend Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story with Sartain as The Big Bopper.
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Paul - Bob's Brother's Band  while my friends were killing brain cells on Barry Manilow. ... Lyle Lovett, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Michael McDonald, The ... Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, the Yellowjackets, Tower of Power, Steely Dan,...
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60 minutes of James Brown being super bad  Power Hour  The A.V. ...  Oct 22, 2015 ... He'd already had an impressive run of R&B chart hits when in 1963 he urged his label to ... But Brown's version of funkwhich was the original version, according to most .... Brown gets credit as a forerunner of hip-hop because of his emphasis on beats ... Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, Pts. 1, 2 & 3 (1965).
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Bobby Whitlock and Eric Clapton - Bell Bottom Blues. Bobby wrote ...  Bobby wrote this with Clapton, (& many other Clapton classics including one of my favorite, "Why Does ... Eric Clapton. See More. 2  Music! ..... "Sweet Home Chicago" (Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Robert Cra. ..... Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Blues Singer, Dead at 83 ..... Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes.
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Shola Adenekan  Jan 6, 2007 ... A song-writer and singer, he helped originate funk and provided the roots for rap music. ... man in show business, Soul Brother number one and Mr Dynamite. ... Got a Brand New Bag, his second for Living in America in 1987 and his ... but a cameo role in the Blues Brothers in 1980 revived his career.
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Reggae superheroes Sly and Robbie  16 of their best songs  Jun 1, 2016 ... Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare are the most famous Jamaican ... That's according to the famed drum and bass duo themselves, ... Their championing of Black Uhuru also helped give that group its ... Following their initial spate of work for Peter Tosh, the first Taxi release to credit Sly and Robbie as...
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Sting - Taxonomy term | Marsalis Music  Considering the big names he's played with from Sting to Gang Starr, and all the hit ... Marsalis spent his childhood playing in funk bands as part of the horn .... And if it's not Branford, it's brother Wynton or the patriarch of the jazz-playing family,...
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Bobby "Blue" Bland - Singer - Biography.com  Aug 19, 2015 ... R&B singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland was known for his baritone voice, ... Born in 1930 in Millington, Tennessee, Bobby "Blue" Bland began his career in Memphis with B.B. King and ... the group the Miniatures and became a founding member of the Beale Streeters, with other members including legendary blues...
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Reissues6 | DMME.net  Still, the B-side, a title cut of Ms Bell's first solo album, Suicide Sal, betters the main track. .... Uncategorisable is the best word to categorise this band. .... Singing guitarist Bob Welch was the first American the MAC drafted in in 1971 once Peter ... 1992 / Angel Air 2007. Fifteen years on, the fourth album of one of the most...