Too Hot to Stop

Too Hot to Stop
Too Hot to Stop
Studio album by the Bar-Kays
Released	October 1976
Recorded	1976
Genre	Funk
Length	35:58
Label	Mercury; SRM-1-1099
Producer	Allen Jones
The Bar-Kays chronology

Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group the Bar-Kays.^[3]^[4] It was their first album for Mercury Records.^[5] It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk".

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[6]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide	^[7]

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk".^[7] The album prompted 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]}

Track listing

"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
"Cozy" (James Banks, Henderson Thigpen) – 3:36
"Bang, Bang (Stick 'Em Up)" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) – 3:48
"Spellbound" (Banks, Thigpen) – 5:05
"Shake Your Rump to the Funk" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) – 3:52
"You're So Sexy" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) – 3:53
"Summer of Our Love" (Dodson, Alexander, Beard, Stewart, Smith, Allen, Henderson, Thompson) – 4:25
"Whitehouseorgy" (Howard Redmond, L. Hendricks, R. CoCo, P. Kibbie) – 4:48

References

^ ^a ^b "Too Hot to Stop - Bar-Kays | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
^ Thompson, Dave (December 11, 2018). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440248917 – via Google Books.
^ "Bar-Kays | Biography & History". AllMusic.
^ Vincent, Rickey (April 15, 1996). Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312134990 – via Google Books.
^ Thompson, Dave (November 21, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306298 – via Google Books.
^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 413.
^ ^a ^b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 28.

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[AM-1] "Too Hot to Stop - Bar-Kays | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.

[2] Thompson, Dave (December 11, 2018). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440248917 – via Google Books.

[3] "Bar-Kays | Biography & History". AllMusic.

[4] Vincent, Rickey (April 15, 1996). Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One. Macmillan. ISBN 9780312134990 – via Google Books.

[5] Thompson, Dave (November 21, 2001). Funk. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306298 – via Google Books.

[CL-6] Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 413.

[RS-7] The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 28.

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