Name: Too Hot To Sleep / Flying High On Your Love
Brand: Bar-Kays

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SBIRD0022CD

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929882225

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Bar-Kays

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Super Bird

The Bar-Kays were originally formed in 1966 as a sextet and their biggest hit was 'Soul Finger'. They looked like they had a healthy career in front of them as a session band & recording outfit before the backbone of the group was killed, along with [a=Otis Redding], in a horrific plane crash. 

Only Ben Cauley survived the crash and went on to form what could be dubbed Bar-Kays Mark II. James Alexander (Bass) was also one of the original members but was not aboard the plane because of limited seats on Redding's plane. For Alexander and Cauley and new members Michael Toles, Willie Hall, Ronnie Gordon and Harvey Henderson, the track 'Sang & Dance' was one of the first tracks from the new group, cut in late 1969.

Two consecutively released albums marking the second coming of The Bar-Kays in 1976 and 1977. Featuring the Southern Funk classic ‘Too Hot To Stop’, which was closely followed 12 months later by the masterful ‘Flying High On Your Love’. Featuring the band’s first lead vocalist Larry Dodson and his unique vocals plus James Alexander’s cranked to the max bass as the new Bar-Kays sound, with no other pretensions than aiming straight for the dance floor via a series of funk workouts that set the template for many of the groups that followed during the late ‘70s. The original group’s first single ‘Soul Finger’ had become an instant classic and international hit which is still popular today. Stax’s top artist, Otis Redding chose the band to be his regular road musicians a decision that ended in tragedy on December 10th 1967 when Redding, King, Caldwell, Jones and Cunningham all perished when their private plane crashed. Only Ben Cauley survived and James Alexander had not boarded the flight. Despite this tragedy Cauley and Alexander with Allen Jones helped reform the group which culminated in their work with Isaac Hayes on his pioneering 1969 album, ‘Hot Buttered Soul’.

Too Hot To Sleep / Flying High On Your Love

Music GB