"Too Hot ta Trot" is a song by R&B/funk band, the

Commodores Commodores are an American funk and soul band, which were at their peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in ...

. The song is written in

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. The track on their 1977 live album ''

Commodores Live! ''Live!'', or ''Commodores Live!'', is a live album by the American band Commodores, released in 1977. The album reached number 3 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. The album was recorded during the Commodores' 1976–1977 coast-to-coast US tour, ...

'', and it spent a week at number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number twenty-four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in early 1978.

Personnel

* William "WAK" King – trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, vocals * Walter Orange – vocals, drums, keyboards *

Milan Williams Milan B. Williams (March 28, 1948 – July 9, 2006) was an American keyboardist and a founding member of The Commodores. Biography Williams was born in Okolona, Mississippi, and began playing the piano after being inspired by his older brother Ea ...

– keyboards,

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, rhythm guitar * Thomas McClary – lead guitar *

Lionel Richie Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of funk band the Commodores; writing and recordi ...

– vocals, saxophone, piano, drums * Ronald LaPread – bass guitar, trumpet

Chart performance

Use in film

*The song was featured on the soundtrack for (and performed in) the movie, '' Thank God It's Friday''.

References

External links

*https://www.discogs.com/Commodores-Live/release/412496 1978 songs 1978 singles Commodores songs {{1970s-R&B-song-stub