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Celebrate!

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Released
  
September 29, 1980

Label
  
De-Lite

Length
  
35:18

Recorded
  
November 1979 – March 1980

Producer
  
Kool and the Gang, Eumir Deodato

Celebrate!(1980)
  
Something Special(1981)

Celebrate! is the twelfth studio album by American band Kool & the Gang. Released on September 29, 1980, the album reached #1 on the US R&B chart and #10 on the Billboard 200. The album produced perhaps Kool & The Gang's most recognizable hit song, the #1 chart-topper, "Celebration", which still receives heavy play today over three decades later.

Personnel

  • Bass – Robert "Kool" Bell
  • Lead guitar – Charles Smith
  • Keyboards, saxophone, backing vocals – Ronald Bell
  • Drums, percussion, backing vocals – George Brown
  • Lead and backing vocals – James "J.T." Taylor
  • Alto saxophone – Dennis Thomas
  • Trumpet, backing vocals – Robert Mickens
  • Keyboards, backing vocals – Earl Toon, Jr.
  • Keyboards – Kevin Bell
  • Additional keyboards – Adam Epolito
  • Backing vocals – Cedric Toon, Meekaeel Muhammad, Robert Bell, Coffee, Something Sweet
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by – Eumir Deodato
    • Production
  • Recording engineer – Jim Bonnefond
  • Assistant engineers – Bobby Cohen, Clif Hodsdon, Jeff Kawalex, Joe DeAngelis, Jullian Robertson, Kenny Robb
  • Mixed by – Eumir Deodato, Jim Bonnefond, Gabe Vigorito
  • Mastered by – Tom Coyne
  • Producer – Eumir Deodato
  • Associate producer – Kool & The Gang

    • References

    Celebrate! Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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