Love & Understanding

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Love & Understanding
Love & Understanding cover
Studio album by Kool and the Gang
Released 1976
Genre Funk
Length 41:26
Label Mercury
Kool and the Gang chronology
Open Sesame
(1976)
Love & Understanding
(1976)
The Force
(1977)


Love & Understanding was an album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1976, and brought a mild success with live songs that displayed some of their greatest talents.

The song Summer Madness was used in the motion picture Rocky as radio background during a scene in Rocky's home. It is also featured in the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Tony Hawk's Project 8. It is currently featured in a Nike commercial

[edit] Track Listing

  1. Love & Understanding (Bayyan/Kool & the Gang/Smith) - 7:51
  2. Sugar (Brown/Kool & the Gang) - 5:37
  3. Do It Right Now (Kool & the Gang/Nash) - 3:55
  4. Cosmic Energy (Bayyan/Kool & the Gang/Smith) - 3:11
  5. Hollywood Swinging (Kool & the Gang/West) - 5:40
  6. Summer Madness (Kool & the Gang/Mickens/Taylor) - 8:01
  7. Universal Sound (Bayyan/Kool & the Gang) - 4:04
  8. Come Together (Bayyan/Kool & the Gang/Smith) - 2:48

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