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    The Bar-Kays is 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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    Ben Cauley (category The Bar-Kays members)
    and founding member of the Stax recording group the Bar-Kays. He was the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that claimed the lives of soul singer Otis...
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  • 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 R&B...
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  • Soul Finger (category The Blues Brothers songs)
    Finger" is the first single released by R&B group the Bar-Kays. It was issued by Stax Records on the Volt Records label on April 14, 1967. The song was...
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  • James Alexander (musician) (category The Bar-Kays members)
    is an 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...
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  • 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 Soul...
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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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  • The Ovations, The Bar-Kays, Percy Sledge, Garnet Mimms, and Sam & Dave all appeared. Some of the artists would also chart well into the 1970s. The show...
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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,...
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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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  • Wattstax (category The Wolper Organization films)
    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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  • 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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  • album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays, released on Mercury Records in November 1982. The album reached number nine on the Billboard...
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  • in soul music. Recorded with The Bar-Kays, the album features four lengthy tracks, including a 12-minute version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David cover...
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    after the late Phalon Jones, another member of the Bar-Kays, who died in the December 10, 1967, plane crash that also killed three other Bar-Kays members...
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  • Too Hot to Stop (category Bar-Kays albums)
    1976 album by the American funk group The Bar-Kays. It was their first album for Mercury Records. It includes the hit "Shake Your Rump to the Funk". "Too...
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  • The film's soundtrack featured the hits "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us" by Ollie & Jerry, "Freakshow on the Dance Floor" by The Bar-Kays and the...
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  • album by the Memphis, Tennessee, funk band the Bar-Kays. Released on Mercury Records in December 1978, the album would chart at number fifteen on the Billboard...
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  • "Boogie Body Land" is a song written by the band members of the Bar-Kays. It was released in 1980 by Mercury Records. "Boogie Body Land" was included in...
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  • Nightcruising (category Bar-Kays albums)
    album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based band The Bar-Kays, released on Mercury Records in November 1981. The album reached number six on the Billboard...
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  • Blair Cunningham (category The Pretenders members)
    group the Bar-Kays. Carl died in the same plane crash that killed Otis Redding in December 1967, when Blair was 10 years old. "Watch Echo and the Bunnymen...
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  • Eddie Floyd William Bell Little Milton The Emotions (Volt) Booker T. & the M.G.'s The Bar-Kays (Volt) David Porter The Epsilons featuring Lloyd Parks -McFadden...
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  • Flying High on Your Love (category Bar-Kays albums)
    by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays. Released on Mercury Records in the fall of 1977, the album charted at number seven on the Billboard...
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  • (including I'll Play the Blues for You, The Blues Don't Change and I Wanna Get Funky), and became the producer and manager for the Bar-Kays. He produced all...
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    Willie Hall (drummer) (category The Bar-Kays members)
    a member of the Blues Brothers band. Hall began his career as a drummer in 1965, while still in high school. He played with the Bar-Kays and Isaac Hayes'...
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  • led by the Bar-Kays and horn arrangements by the Memphis Horns, it is considered by AllMusic as a "another very solid, early-'70s outing". In the artwork...
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  • Ronnie Caldwell (category The Bar-Kays members)
    A keyboard player, Caldwell was the only white member of the Bar-Kays musical group based in Memphis, Tennessee. The group recorded with and also accompanied...
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    Funk (redirect from The funk)
    One Way, Lakeside, Dazz Band, The Gap Band, Slave, Aurra, Roger Troutman & Zapp, Con Funk Shun, Cameo, Bar-Kays, The Brothers Johnson and Chic. Funk...
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  • Injoy (category Bar-Kays albums)
    album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays. Released on Mercury Records in October 1979, this album reached number two on the Billboard...
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  • publicity at Stax, came up with the idea to title Hayes' LP Black Moses. He also devised, with the assistance of Bar-Kays member Ron Gordon, a gatefold...
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