Hollywood Swinging

Album: Wild and Peaceful (1973)
Charted: 6
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  • Hey hey hey
    What ya got to say?
    Say, hey hey hey
    What ya got to say?

    Hollywood
    Hollywood swinging
    Hollywood
    Hollywood swinging

    I remember
    Not too long ago
    I went to a theater
    And I saw the Kool & The Gang Show
    I always wanted
    To get into a band
    To sing my songs
    And then become a bad piano playing man
    So here I am
    In this Hollywood city
    The city of the stars, movies, women and cars
    Well, I guess I
    I guess I
    Star

    Say, hey hey hey
    What ya got to say?
    Say, hey hey hey
    What ya got to say?

    Hollywood
    Hollywood swinging
    Hollywood
    Hollywood swinging

    Hollywood swinging
    (Hollywood swinging)
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    Hollywood swinging
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    (Yeah, but they're swinging) too long
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    (Hollywood swinging) Writer/s: Claydes Smith, Dennis Thomas, George Brown, Richard Westfield, Robert Bell, Robert Mickens, Ronald Bell
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1974 {April 27th} Kool and the Gang performed "Hollywood Swinging" on the ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon special , 'Action '74'...
    At the time the song was at position #76 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, ten weeks later it would peak at #6 {for 1 week} and it spent nineteen weeks on the Top 100...
    And on June 2nd, 1974 it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart...
    Between 1969 and 2006 the Jersey City, NJ band had forty-four records on the Hot Soul Singles chart, twenty-five made the Top 10 with nine* reaching the #1 position...
    Kool, born Robert Earl Bell, will celebrate his 69th birthday this coming October 8th, 2019...
    * The band just missed having two more #1 records when both their "Jungle Boogie" {1973} and "Victory" {1986} peaked at #2 on the Hot Soul Singles chart...
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