The Bar-Kays are an American funk band formed in 1964. The band had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (US...
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Dangerous is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee band the Bar-Kays, released on Mercury Records in April 1984. The album reached number seven on the Billboard...
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Ben Cauley (category The Bar-Kays members)
the Bar-Kays. He was the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that claimed the lives of soul singer Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays. Cauley...
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As One is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee funk band The Bar-Kays released on Mercury Records in November 1980. The album reached number six on the Billboard...
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Animal is an album by the American R&B band the Bar-Kays, released in 1989. The album peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Top Black Albums chart. Its first...
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James Alexander (musician) (category The Bar-Kays members)
American soul and R&B musician. He is a longtime member of the band the Bar-Kays, for which he plays bass guitar. Alexander was born at McLemore Clinic...
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R&B group the Bar-Kays. It was issued by Stax Records on the Volt Records label on April 14, 1967. The song was written by the Bar-Kays while they were...
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Soul Finger is the debut album of the Bar-Kays, issued three months after the single of the same name. It was recorded by Tom Dowd and Chris Huston on...
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Light of Life is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee, funk band the Bar-Kays. Released on Mercury Records in December 1978, the album would chart at number...
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Money Talks is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays. Made up of tracks recorded for Stax Records before its 1975 collapse, Money...
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Phalon Jones (category The Bar-Kays members)
musical group the Bar-Kays, which recorded with and also played backup for Otis Redding. Jones and three other members of the Bar-Kays (Ronnie Caldwell...
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Propositions (album) (redirect from Propositions (The Bar Kays album))
Propositions is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays, released on Mercury Records in November 1982. The album reached number...
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Shaft" by The Bar-Kays 5:18: "Feel It" by The Bar-Kays 5:23: "In the Hole" by The Bar-Kays 5:26: "I Can't Turn You Loose" by The Bar-Kays 5:31: Unknown...
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No Stopping Us" by Ollie & Jerry, "Freakshow on the Dance Floor" by The Bar-Kays and the UK Top 20 hit "Body Work" by Hot Streak. Breakin' was one of the...
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Injoy (category Bar-Kays albums)
Injoy is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays. Released on Mercury Records in October 1979, this album reached number two on...
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Too Hot to Stop (category Bar-Kays albums)
Too Hot to Stop is a 1976 album by the American funk group The Bar-Kays. It was their first album for Mercury Records. It includes the hit "Shake Your...
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Nightcruising (category Bar-Kays albums)
Nightcruising is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based band The Bar-Kays, released on Mercury Records in November 1981. The album reached number six...
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Flying High on Your Love (category Bar-Kays albums)
On Your Love is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays. Released on Mercury Records in the fall of 1977, the album charted at...
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Jones, another member of the Bar-Kays, who died in the December 10, 1967, plane crash that also killed three other Bar-Kays members and Otis Redding.[citation...
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1969, it is recognized as a landmark in soul music. Recorded with The Bar-Kays, the album features four lengthy tracks, including a 12-minute version...
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Ronnie Caldwell (category The Bar-Kays members)
musician. A keyboard player, Caldwell was the only white member of the Bar-Kays musical group based in Memphis, Tennessee. The group recorded with and...
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Willie Hall (drummer) (category The Bar-Kays members)
career as a drummer in 1965, while still in high school. He played with the Bar-Kays and Isaac Hayes' band The Movement. In the seventies, as part of the Stax-Volt...
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labels. Volt, founded in late 1961, was the label home to Otis Redding, the Bar-Kays, and a handful of other artists. Volt releases were initially issued by...
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The Gap Band, Slave, Aurra, Roger Troutman & Zapp, Con Funk Shun, Cameo, Bar-Kays and Chic. Funk derivatives include avant-funk, an avant-garde strain of...
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J. Blige's album, Share My World. He also produced Roy Ayers, and the Bar-Kays, and composed the music and theme tune for the 1990s television police...
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influence. His brother Carl Cunningham was drummer with Stax group the Bar-Kays. Carl died in the same plane crash that killed Otis Redding in December...
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recorded in 1972 and released in 1974. With a rhythm section led by the Bar-Kays and horn arrangements by the Memphis Horns, it is considered by AllMusic...
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Coldblooded (album) (category Bar-Kays albums)
Coldblooded is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band The Bar-Kays. Released in 1974, it was their last album for Volt Records before moving...
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to title Hayes' LP Black Moses. He also devised, with the assistance of Bar-Kays member Ron Gordon, a gatefold album cover design that unfolded into a poster-sized...
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song), a 1974 funk song Coldblooded (album), a 1974 funk album by The Bar-Kays "Cold Blooded", a song by Damageplan from the 2004 album New Found Power...
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