The Bar-Kays ~ Smiling, Styling, And Profiling ♫

[HustleMan73]

long live tha funk!!!!! my brother hipped me to these cats when i was a lil boy. i been funkin err since.

[JamBurgler]

Joe Shamwell (R.I.P.) with the writing credit on this one!

[fbebeats]

STYLIN' & PROFILIN'! Woooo!

Who knew Ric Flair was a Bar-Kays fan?

[dano122772]

this has ohio players sound

[awwfunkme]

Maybe one day some record company will get around to producing a BarKays box set. Let's hope so.

[MUSIC4762]

Hi awwfunkm:I'm surprised that POLYGRAM records hasn't done it since the the BAR-KAY brought a lot of money to that record company since a lot of their albums went gold except for the As One album which contains Boogie body land.

[awwfunkme]

I'm not at all surprised. The industry is now driven by personal taste--not entirely, but largely. Look at what Cameo's label did to them a few years back...released nearly the entire catalog for about a year; then pulled nearly all of the early stuff. It's the same people who put together these incomplete compilations: they don't know what the f*ck they're doing.

[soulgirl66]

descending1...Oh yeah...I can dig it! LOL

[winonahb]

Can somebody PLEASE find and post the song "Unforgettable Dream.".this was a Bar Kays ballet hit...Larry Dodsons voice really was all that in this vocal cut.....if someone can find it...Larry if you read this....post it PLEASE---PLEASE..e-mail me if someone can.........LOL

[HaIIoweenKingDiamond]

very cool

[CTidda23]

Real Memphis shit.

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

(nods) You know it...ain't it tho.

[MUN7001]

thats what im talking about, i like the 70s, i can take synthesizers, not too much though lol , gotta have that hot buttered soul

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

I can dig it.

[Italbless]

Used by Dilated Peoples off the Rawkus Soundbombing LP.

Peace

[descending1]

The barkays were the ultimate Funk machine! I loved them. Man they don't make it like this anymore, and if they did, everything would be as cool as it twas in the early 70's. Can ya'll dig it!?

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

Sho' Nuff.

[Buckeyecat2002]

The music reminds of The Ohio Players Far Esat Mississippi and the end sounds like Songwriter/Pet by Sly Stone. Great song.

[Ezr1987]

Soundbombing

[awwfunkme]

"She's a bad thang--with a lovin' game

...it's a new dude everyday

Until she starts using what she's got upstairs

it's gonna always be that way"

Too true. Thanks for the post.

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

Cool you're welcome, awwfunkme..."Ha da da dee da hada hada da da"...(lol)

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

Nobody wants to see THE BAR-KAYS inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame more than I do.....I mean nobody!

[roboshuffle]

As sampled by Dilated Peoples... Soundbombing.

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

Cool.. Thanks Roboshuffle.

[trampmoPbrown]

I'm trying to find this LP or CD. I purchased it when I was 19 and I'm 53 now. It's still as nastily funky as the first time I heard it! Please help me!

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

(lol) Man... I'm going to try and help a fellow music lover find or get this. Hey, you are absolutely right. It's as funky as it was the first time I heard it too.. My older cousin had it back then, I grab a copy of the album in 83 and found another in 90-91..something like that. I still dig it.

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

This is TOO FUNKY. Thank you for posting this album....I have posted all over the net about finding this vinyl "Cold Blooded". I really hope to see THE BAR-KAYS inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of fame in the future because I am really pushing for them.

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

Your welcome,

I think they should, but you know the politics behind that.. but you would think with their body of work during the earlier years as one of Stax house bands(they were a big part of the stax blueprint for the memphis sound) then as Stax recording artist...that should be enough right there, then to add on the Mercury years..

The Bar-kays future R&R HOF.