Koolmania (Christopher Tetlow)
with enourmous support from JudgeFunky (Markus Jahn)
Alper & Erkut Coscun creators of the Kool & The Gang featuring "J.T." Taylor site (printing the address may violate my contract with yahoo geocities. sorry) - for track listings for "Open Sesame" and "The Force"
Andy "Wolverhampten Funkateer" Hooton - for the email he sent to the ... featuring JT Taylor site telling any readers that "Rated X is on "Kool & The Gang Greatest Hits" [1975]and Malik Nash for etomology help on Otha Nash's name.
also thanks to
Amazon auctions - for "Kool Jazz" track listings
AMG, CDDB and the official site for Kool & The Gang.
BMI and ASCAP for additional legal information.
Thanks to "Joel Whitburn 's Record Research Inc." - for their books of chart data ("Top R&B Singles 1942 - 1999", "Top R&B Albums 1965 - 1998", "Bubbling Under Singles And Albums - 1998 Edition")
Very special thanks to everyone who has ever worked in and around Kool & The Gang for helping to bring us years of excellent music especially Cleveland Brown for heeps of band information.