''Too Hot to Stop'' is a 1976 album by the American

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group

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. It was their first album for

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. It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk".

Critical reception

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'' deemed the album "unashamedly derivative Ohio Players funk." Despite this review, Too Hot To Stop is considered by funk fans to be one of the very best Bar-Kays albums. It’s content caused George Clinton, leader of

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, to invite the Bar-Kays to be one of the opening acts on his band’s legendary 1976-77

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Track list

# "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

1976 albums Bar-Kays albums Mercury Records albums {{1970s-R&B-album-stub