Too Hot to Stop/Flying High on Your Love

Personnel: Charles "Scoop" Allen (vocals, guitar, trumpet, percussion); Larry "D" Dodson (vocals, harmonica); James Alexander (vocals, electric bass); Michael Beard (vocals, drums, percussion); Lloyd "Lucious Lloyd" Smith (guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar); Harvey "Joe" Henderson (flute, tenor saxophone, percussion); Frank "Captain Disaster" Thompson (bass trumpet, trombone, percussion); Winston Stewart (Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet).
Audio Remixers: William C. Brown III; Allen Jones .
Liner Note Author: Bob Fisher .
Recording information: Ardent Studio, Memphis, TN.
Illustrator: John Youssi.
Photographer: Belinda Taylor.
Arrangers: Allen Jones ; Bar-Kays.
Cherry Red affiliate Superbird pairs Bar-Kays' first two albums for Mercury, the label to which the band defected after a long and productive run with Stax. Both recordings reached the Top Ten of Billboard's R&B albums chart. Too Hot to Stop, released in 1976, features the singles "Shake Your Rump to the Funk," "Too Hot to Stop," and "Spellbound," while Flying High on Your Love spawned "Let's Have Some Fun" and "Attitudes." Comparable to what their P-Funk brothers and sisters were releasing at the time, these are two of the band's most enjoyable albums, though they're not without a fair amount of filler. This is a straight-up two-for-one compilation with no bonus tracks. ~ Andy Kellman