Jungle Boogie

Album: Wild & Peaceful (1973)
Charted: 4
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Claydes Smith, Dennis Thomas, Donald Boyce, George Brown, Richard Westfield, Robert Bell, Robert Mickens, Ronald Bell
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Sentric Music, Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Armin from Dallas/fort WorthThe kicker in this song is the hypnotic wah-wah rhythm guitar track. It's the perfect backdrop for the funky horns. I drives the song throughout, just a touch below the conscious mind. A classic 70s track.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 12, 1974, Kool and the Gang performed "Jungle Boogie" on two national television programs, the Dick Clark's ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon 'American Bandstand' and Don Cornelius' syndicated TV program 'Soul Train'...
    At the time "Jungle Boogie" was at #28 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, eight weeks later it would peak at #4 {for 1 week} and it spent twenty two weeks on the Top 100...
    And on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart it was at #18, five weeks later it peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks}, for the two weeks it was at #2, it was another 'Boogie' record that prevented it from reaching the top spot, "Boogie Down" by Eddie Kendricks...
    Between 1969 and 2006 the Jersey group had forty-seven records on the Hot R&B Singles chart; twenty-five made the Top 10 with nine* reaching #1; "Hollywood Swinging" {1974}, "Higher Plane" {1974}, "Spirit of the Boogie" {1975}, "Ladies' Night" {1979}, "Celebration" {1980}, "Take My Heart" {1981}, "Joanna" {1983},"Fresh" {1984}, and "Cherish" {1985}...
    Claydes Charles Smith, the group's co-founder and lead guitarist, passed away at the young age of 57 on June 20th, 2006...
    May he, Mr. Clark {1929 -2012}, and Mr. Cornelius {1936 -2012}, all R.I.P.
    * They just missed having eleven #1 records when both the above "Jungle Boogie" {1974} and "Victory" {1986} peaked at #2.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 12th 1974, Kool and the Gang performed "Jungle Boogie" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    One month earlier on December 2nd, 1973 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 3rd it peaked at #4 (for 1 week) and spent 22 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart and #45 in Germany???
    Was track three on side one of their sixth studio album 'Wild and Peaceful'; the album reached #3 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart and stay on the chart for over a half-year (36 weeks)...
    Two other tracks off the album also entered the R&B Singles chart; "Funky Stuff" (#5) and "Hollywood Swinging" (peaked at #1 for 1 week on June 2nd, 1974).
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