When was celebration by kool and the gang written

Forever No. Still, of those 16 top 40 hits blanketing the Greed Decade, only one topped the Hot "Celebration," penned primarily by group co-founder Ronald Bell who later adopted the name Khalis Bayyan , who died on Wednesday Sept.

Though the song has come to be synonymous with nearly every type of private and public celebration in the four decades since its release, the idea for the enduring and immediately recognizable party perennial first came to Bayyan when he was reading the Qu'ran. Started by Bayyan and brother Robert "Kool" Bell as teens in , the group first hit the Hot in with their self-titled debut single , reaching No.

They grew that success in the mid '70s, with the consecutive smashes "Funky Stuff" No. But as their brand of fire-starting funk fell out of favor in the latter half of the '70s as disco rose to ubiquity, the hits dried up, and neither 's The Force or 's Everybody Dancin' LPs spawned a single that even managed to crack the Hot However, the group's comeback began in earnest with 's Ladies Night , produced by Brazilian studio whiz Eumir Deodato who'd scored a surprise No.

Together with their new singer and producer, the band more fully embraced disco's pulse, and Ladies' Night spawned a pair of top 10 hits in with "Too Hot" No.

The latter in particular helped set the table for "Celebration," not just with its handclap-assisted energy and generally convivial spirit, but with its outro, in which the backing vocalists proclaim, "Come on dance and celebrate. By the time of "Celebration," the group had been re-established as pop stars -- Kool even told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that the idea for the song "came from our celebration of our return to the music business" -- and indeed, the single sounds like a victory lap from its opening drum fill.

Subsequent instruments guitar, horns, bass each take turns strutting in from there, as background voices subtly chatter and whoop in the background, before affirming their presence with one gigantic "WA-HOO! But the band still carried over the frenzied party energy of their earlier work, with brain-sticking musical licks and audience-participation refrains at every turn, to the point where the revelry is already in its highest gear by the time it gets to the first verse.

The word "celebrate" not only anchors the song's unforgettable five-word chorus, but forms of of it also pop up throughout the verses and the pre-chorus, never letting you get too far without a reminder about the reason for the season. But as forceful as the band are on "Celebration" in ensuring you're getting the party going, they're equally insistent on leaving the terms of said party up to you: On the pre-chorus, Taylor even explicitly asks, "It's up to you -- what's your pleasure?

It's that sort of equal-opportunity approach to party-starting that's allowed "Celebration" to soundtrack pretty much any joyous festivity imaginable in the 40 years following its release. In alone, it was used both as the theme song to Super Bowl XV between the Oakland Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles, and the song that heralded the return of the 52 American citizens to U. Over the decades, it not only endured as an anthem for such moments of victory, but also became a go-to DJ jam at nearly every wedding, bar mitzvah, confirmation and other large-scale gathering in which there was, indeed, cause for celebration.

Coincidentally for such a definitive pop song about partying, after two weeks on top of the Hot "Celebration" gave way to Dolly Parton's "9 to 5," possibly the definitive pop song about working. Russ Abbot. Kylie Minogue. Speak of the Devil. Party Animals [DK]. Sugar Beats. Voice Male [US]. The Alien Gonzos. The BB Band. Bad Influence [SE].

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