20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Bar-Kays
The Bar-Kays
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freakshow On the Dance Floor | The Bar-Kays | 6:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Shake Your Rump to the Funk | The Bar-Kays | 3:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Too Hot to Stop, Pt. 1 | The Bar-Kays | 6:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Attitudes | The Bar-Kays | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Shine | The Bar-Kays | 3:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Move Your Boogie Body | The Bar-Kays | 6:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Let's Have Some Fun | The Bar-Kays | 6:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Hit and Run | The Bar-Kays | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | She Talks to Me With Her Body | The Bar-Kays | 8:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Do It (Let Me See You Shake) | The Bar-Kays | 4:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Running In and Out of My Life | The Bar-Kays | 4:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
True success was a long time coming for the Bar-Kays, who started out as a sort of second-line studio band behind Booker T. & the MG's at Stax Records in Memphis. After releasing an instrumental hit, "Soul Finger," and becoming the backing band for Otis Redding, it appeared the group was on its way to the kind of success that the MG's had enjoyed. Then disaster struck. The plane crash that killed Redding and his road manager in 1967 also took the lives of four of the Bar-Kays. The group was rebuilt around surviving members Ben Cauley and James Alexander, but momentum (and so much more) had been lost. It wasn't until signing to Mercury Records in 1976 and moving in a more vocal-oriented funk direction that the hits really started coming for the Bar-Kays. Several of those Mercury tracks are collected here, and although the end result is one hell of a great party record, it is a bit one-dimensional, and disguises the group's fine history as a stellar soul band.
Recent Customer Reviews
Missing SOUL FINGER!
by ChambersstevensGood collection by one of the best funk bands of all time. But I would get the "All Time Greatest" hits instead. That collection has the classic SOUL FINGER on it.
Biography
Formed: 1966 in Memphis, TN
Genre: R&B/Soul
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s
Top Albums and Songs by The Bar-Kays
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soul Finger (LP Version) | Beg, Scream & Shout!: The Best of '60s Soul, Vol. 3 | 2:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Too Hot to Stop | The Best of Funk Essentials: Funky Stuff | 6:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Freakshow On the Dance Floor | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Bar-Kays | 6:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Holy Ghost | The Best of the Bar-Kays (Remastered) | 8:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Soul Finger | Soul Finger | 2:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
