Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Kool and the Gang has existed for 60 years (!!), a trivia question almost nobody would get right if asked.
They've had a ton of member changes over that span (as you'd expect), and somehow have only produced one #1 hit, despite a lot of albums spanning from 1969 to 2023.
"Celebration" is their best known song, and their only #1. But I don't think it's their best song, nor their best hit. "Fresh" was one of four hits from their 1984 album "Emergency", the other hits being "Emergency", "Misled", and "Cherish". But it was extremely catchy, and holds up very well 40 years later.
The very weird music video looks like something where a copious amount of drugs were consumed on-set, most likely cocaine.
I heard this song come on the radio about a week ago, and I noticed I liked it better now than when it played on the radio when I was 12. It got to #9 on the charts in late 1984.