Why is Cuba celebrating with Kool and the Gang?”
LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com) — Kool & The Gang are the American jazz, R&B, funk and pop group. Their music has been created by the same core of players for over thirty years. The group includes, Robert “Kool” Bell on bass, his brother Ronald Bell on tenor saxophone, their longtime friends Dennis “DT” Thomas on alto saxophone, George “Funky” Brown on drums. Past members Robert “Spike” Mickens used to play trumpet, the late Charles Smith played guitar, and Rick Westfield was with keyboards. They first hit the pop charts with the release of their debut eponymous album. They have sold over 70 million albums worldwide. Lyrics of Celebrate Good Times Yahoo! This is your celebration Yahoo! This is your celebration Celebrate good times, come on! (Let’s celebrate) Celebrate good times, come on! (Let’s celebrate) There’s a party goin’ on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times, and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you Come on now Celebrat
HAVANA – No record store here has ever sold their music, and before Sunday, no one in the country had ever seen the band live. Yet for decades Cubans have loved Kool and the Gang, seemingly unconditionally. Cuba filmmaker Gloria Rolando said the band’s funky sound provided the soundtrack for her generation’s coming of age in the late 1960s and 1970s. And even though there was a brief period in the 1960s when the communist government outright banned American music and frowned on it during the subsequent decade when it was rarely heard on government airwaves, Rolando remembers K&G’s music “playing everywhere.” “It was a period of time that we didn’t listen openly, in public, but the people never stopped listening to good American music.
No record store here has ever sold their music, and before Sunday, no one in the country had ever seen the band live. Yet for decades Cubans have loved Kool and the Gang, seemingly unconditionally. Cuba filmmaker Gloria Rolando said the band’s funky sound provided the soundtrack for her generation’s coming of age in the late 1960s and 1970s.
