Jungle Boogie
| "Jungle Boogie" | |
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7" Japan vinyl
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| Single by Kool & the Gang | |
| from the album Wild and Peaceful | |
| B-side | "North, South, East, West" |
| Released | November 24, 1973 |
| Recorded | 1973 |
| Genre | Funk |
| Length | 3:08 |
| Label | Mercury |
| Writer(s) | Robert Earl Bell, Ronald Nathan Bell, Donald Boyce, George Melvin Brown, Robert Spike Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, Clifford Adams and Dennis Thomas |
"Jungle Boogie" is a funk song recorded by Kool & the Gang for their 1973 album Wild and Peaceful. It reached number four as a single and became very popular in nightclubs.Billboard ranked it as the number 12 song for 1974.
The song's spoken main vocal was performed by the band's roadie Don Boyce. An instrumental version of the tune with an overdubbed flute part and additional percussion instruments titled "Jungle Jazz" appeared on the album Spirit of the Boogie. The song is noted for the Tarzan yell heard at the song's end and the grunting, panting, and the scatting heard throughout.
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The song was used by ECW wrestler 2 Cold Scorpio as his entrance music.
"Jungle Boogie" and "Jungle Jazz" have been repeatedly sampled in subsequent popular music. For example, samples are used in EPMD's 1988 album Strictly Business, Beastie Boys' 1989 release "Hey Ladies", Madonna's 1992 top ten success "Erotica", TLC's 1991 hit "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", Janet Jackson's 1994 top ten single "You Want This" and M/A/R/R/S' "Pump Up the Volume" in 1987.
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