Live at the Sex Machine

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1971 live album by Kool and the Gang

Live at the Sex Machine

Live album by

Kool and the Gang

Released| February 1971
Recorded| May 1970
Genre| Funk
Length| 48:26
Label| De-Lite
Producer| Gene Redd
Kool and the Gang chronology
| Kool and the Gang
(1969)  | Live at the Sex Machine
(1971)  | Live at PJ's
(1971)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
Los Angeles Times| [2]

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 #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.

## Covers[edit]

On Live at the Sex Machine, Kool and the Gang covered Sly and the Family Stone's I Want To Take You Higher, The Delfonics' Trying To Make a Fool of Me, Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman, Brenda and the Tabulations' The Touch of You and Dionne Warwick's Walk on By.[3]

## Track listing[edit]

Side INo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind"| Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd| 4:29
2.| "Walk on By"| Burt Bacharach, Hal David| 5:15
3.| "Chocolate Buttermilk"| Kool & the Gang, Redd| 2:09
4.| "Trying to Make a Fool of Me"| Thom Bell, William Hart| 4:29
5.| "Who's Gonna Take the Weight"| Kool & the Gang, Redd| 6:20

Side IINo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Pneumonia"| Kool & the Gang, Redd| 5:22
2.| "Wichita Lineman"| Jimmy Webb| 5:27
3.| "I Want to Take You Higher"| Sylvester Stewart| 4:13
4.| "Funky Man"| Kool & the Gang, Redd| 3:24
5.| "Touch of You"| Eddie Jackson, Jerry Jones| 4:14

CD release bonus trackNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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11.| "Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)"| Kool & the Gang, Redd| 2:58

## References[edit]

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. ^ "Live at the Sex Machine - Kool and The Gang (January 1971)". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2023-08-02.

## External links[edit]

* Live at the Sex Machine at Discogs (list of releases)

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Kool & the Gang

* Robert "Kool" Bell
* Ronald Bell
* George Brown
* Robert Mickens
* Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas

* Clifford Adams
* Sennie "Skip" Martin
* Shawn McQuiller
* Rodney Ellis
* Jirmad Gordon

* James "J.T." Taylor
* Claydes Charles Smith
* Rick Westfield

Studio albums|

* Kool and the Gang
* Music Is the Message
* Good Times
* Wild and Peaceful
* Light of Worlds
* Spirit of the Boogie
* Love & Understanding
* Open Sesame
* The Force
* Everybody's Dancin'
* Ladies' Night
* Celebrate!
* Something Special
* As One
* In the Heart
* Emergency
* Forever
* Sweat
* Unite
* State of Affairs
* Gangland
* The Hits: Reloaded
* Still Kool
* Kool for the Holidays
* Perfect Union
* People Just Wanna Have Fun

Live albums|

* Live at the Sex Machine
* Live at PJ's

Compilation albums|

* Kool Jazz
* Twice as Kool: The Hits of Kool & the Gang

Singles|

* "Let the Music Take Your Mind"
* "Funky Man"
* "Funky Stuff"
* "Jungle Boogie"
* "Hollywood Swinging"
* "Summer Madness"
* "Caribbean Festival"
* "Higher Plane"
* "Spirit of the Boogie"
* "Open Sesame"
* "Ladies' Night"
* "Too Hot"
* "Celebration"
* "Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)"
* "Steppin' Out"
* "Get Down on It"
* "Big Fun"
* "Joanna"
* "Misled"
* "Fresh"
* "Cherish"
* "Stone Love"
* "Rags to Riches"
* "Raindrops"
* "In the Hood"
* "No Show"

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