{"id":105869,"date":"2016-05-15T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=105869"},"modified":"2016-05-15T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T18:45:46","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-kool-the-gang-celebration-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-kool-the-gang-celebration-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Kool &#038; The Gang &#8211; Celebration (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3GwjfUFyY6M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An all time classic from the legendary New Jersey jazz, R&#038;B, soul, funk and brilliant disco group <strong>Kool &#038; The Gang<\/strong>, and their simply amazing tune <em>Celebration<\/em>. They went through several musical phases during their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then funk and R&#038;B, progressing to a smooth pop-funk ensemble, and in the post-millennium creating music with a modern, electro-pop sound.<\/p>\n<p><em>Celebration<\/em> is off their 14th album <em>Celebrate!<\/em>, released on <strong>De-Lite Records<\/strong> in 1980. They were busy no doubt, considering they were formed in 1964, put out their debut in 1970 and only 10 years later, 14th album came out.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Kool &#038; The Gang<\/strong> and <strong>Eumir Deodato<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105870\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-kool-the-gang-celebration-1980\/kool-and-the-gang-1-1a4f14ab\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?fit=800%2C535&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,535\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?fit=540%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?fit=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?resize=540%2C361&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/kool-and-the-gang-1.1a4f14ab.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An all time classic from the legendary New Jersey jazz, R&#038;B, soul, funk and brilliant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-rxz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}