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1971 live album by Kool and the Gang
Live at the Sex Machine
Live album by Kool and the Gang
ReleasedFebruary 1971
RecordedMay 1970
GenreFunk
Length48:26
LabelDe-Lite
ProducerGene Redd
Kool and the Gang chronology
Kool and the Gang
(1969)
Live at the Sex Machine
(1971)
Live at PJ's
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Los Angeles Times
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul

Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached No. 6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during hip-hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by the Prodigy.

Track listing

Side I
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind"Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd4:29
2."Walk on By"Burt Bacharach, Hal David5:15
3."Chocolate Buttermilk"Kool & the Gang, Redd2:09
4."Trying to Make a Fool of Me"Thom Bell, William Hart4:29
5."Who's Gonna Take the Weight"Kool & the Gang, Redd6:20
Side II
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Pneumonia"Kool & the Gang, Redd5:22
2."Wichita Lineman"Jimmy Webb5:27
3."I Want to Take You Higher"Sylvester Stewart4:13
4."Funky Man"Kool & the Gang, Redd3:24
5."Touch of You"Eddie Jackson, Jerry Jones4:14
CD release bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)"Kool & the Gang, Redd2:58

Personnel

Kool and the Gang

Additional personnel

  • Gene Redd – producer, arranger
  • Malcolm Addey – engineer
  • Gene Redd, Sr. – editing
  • Douglas Flake – art direction, design
  • Elliot Kaufman – photography
  • Carl Hall – vocal background supervision

References

  1. Kurutz, Steve. "Kool & the Gang: Live at the Sex Machine" at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  2. Hodari Coker, Cheo (December 27, 1996). "'Go Girl!': Ballads of Enlightened Love". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin Books. p. 195.

External links

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