Who? Cool and the gang is one of the best soul funk jazz groups of the 70s and 80s

so when I sat down with Robert Cool Bell the founder of the group I had to ask him

How did you guys make the masterpiece that we know of as Jungle Boogie.

I want to talk about Jungle Boogie because I think that's one of my, I think that's probably

my favorite song of yours and it just, it's this monster record. It's not about anything and there's really not any lyrics.

The vocals seem to function like another instrument,

like what they're saying doesn't really matter,

but it's just like these great voices adding

to the stew.

And yeah, the rhythm is really important,

but the horns are really killer in that.

But then the bass is kind of dominant over the guitar.

Like talk about the making of that record

and how Jungle Boogie came about.

Well, again, that was my brother,

I was one of the key ladders for that, especially with the horns.

We were dealing with our record company, Delight Records, and they came to us and they said,

hey, you guys have had some territorial hits like in Philly or Washington, New York, but you need a big hit.

So at that time, had Soo Mikusa, Mongo, DeBongo,

had that big record out. So they wanted us to work with that producer.

We met with him at one time. They wanted us to work with that producer.

We met with him at one meeting, and we wouldn't feel it.

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