Shake Your Rump to the Funk - The Bar-Kays

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Shake Your Rump to the Funk Lyrics

Don't stop dancing to the music
Just let the music make you high
We've got rhythm, you can use it
Don't let this feeling pass you by, by, by

Don't fight the feeling in your soul
Just boogie on back and
Let the good times roll, yeah
We're here to move your soul

Just get on up, yeah
Everybody party, come on
Y'all, let's get started, yeah, yeah

Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Well, well, well, well

Everybody, keep on moving
Just get on up and do your stuff, yeah, yeah
Everybody, keep on grooving
Moving and grooving is what they all are doing

Come on, everybody, yeah, yeah
Feel this stuff, yeah
We just wanna groove you
Till you get enough, yeah

We want to play for you
Our funky sound, yeah
Move it to the music and
Get down, down, down

Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now

Well, well, well
Well, well, well

Shake your rump to the funk, come on and
Come on and, come on and

Shake your rump to the funk
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now

Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now
Shake your rump to the funk now

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The Bar-Kays were a popular Memphis, Tennessee, soul, R&B, and funk group performing from 1966 that continues in some form to perform today, although with only one original member. They began as a favorite soul studio sessions group backing major artists at Stax Records, chosen in 1967 by Otis Redding to play as his touring backup band.

On December 10, 1967, Redding, his manager, and band members Jimmy King (b.1949; guitar), Ronnie Caldwell (b. 1948; organ), Phalon Jones (b. 1949; saxophone), and Carl Cunningham (b. 1949; drums) died in a plane crash in Lake Monona while on their way to a performance in Madison, Wisconsin.

Trumpeter Ben Cauley survived the crash and bassist James Alexander (who missed the flight due to returning a rental car) rebuilt the group.

The reformed band consisted of Cauley; Alexander; Harvey Henderson, saxophone; Michael Toles, guitar; Ronnie Gorden, organ; Willie Hall, drums and later Larry Dodson, lead vocals.

The group backed dozens of major Stax artists on recordings afterwards, including on Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul album, and changed direction in the 1970s to have a successful funk music career. Lloyd Smith joined the Bar-Kays in 1973. They continued to score hits on R&B charts well into the 1980s and lately have incorporated contemporary rap & remix elements into their continuing career and have performed all over the world.



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