Album: Celebrate! (1981)

Charted: 7 1

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• (Yahoo)
  This is your celebration
  (Yahoo)
  This is your celebration
  
  Celebrate good times, come on
  Let's celebrate
  Celebrate good times, come on
  Let's celebrate
  
  There's a party going on right here
  A celebration to last throughout the years
  So bring your good times and your laughter too
  We gon' celebrate your party with you, come on now
  
  Celebration
  Let's all celebrate and have a good time
  Celebration
  We gon' celebrate and have a good time
  
  It's time to come together
  It's up to you
  What's your pleasure?
  Everyone around the world, come on
  
  (Yahoo)
  It's a celebration
  (Yahoo)
  
  Celebrate good times, come on
  It's a celebration
  Celebrate good times, come on
  Let's celebrate
  
  We're gonna have a good time tonight
  Let's celebrate, it's all right
  We're gonna have a good time tonight
  Let's celebrate, it's all right, baby
  
  We're gonna have a good time tonight (celebration)
  Let's celebrate, it's all right
  We're gonna have a good time tonight (celebration)
  Let's celebrate, it's all right
  
  (Yahoo)
  (Yahoo)
  
  Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate)
  Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
  Celebrate good times, come on
  It's a celebration
  
  Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate)
  Come on and celebrate tonight (celebrate good times, come on)
  'Cause everything's gon' be all right
  
  Let's celebrate
  Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate)
  Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
  Celebrate good times, come on Writer/s: Claydes Smith, Dennis Thomas, Earl Toon, Eumir Deodato, George Brown, James Taylor, Robert Bell, Robert Mickens, Ronald D. Bell
  Publisher: TuneCore Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Bubbie Needham from Toronto, Ont, CanadaKool & the Gang co-founder Dennis Thomas dead at age 70 Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, a founding member of the long-running soul-funk band Kool & the Gang, has died. 8 August 2021
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 10th 1981 Kool & the Gang performed "Celebration" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  Three months earlier on October October 19th, 1980 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on February 1st it peaked at #1 (for 2 weeks) and spent over a half-year on the Top 100 (30 weeks, and 7 of those 30 weeks were on the Top 10)...)...
  And on December 20th, 1980 it reached #1 on two other Billboard charts; on the R&B Singles chart for 6 weeks and on Hot Dance Club Play for 5 weeks...
  Was track one on side one of their 12th studio album, 'Celebrate!', and the album reached #2 on the Billboard's Top R&B Albums and #10 on the Top 200 Albums chart...
  One other track from the album also made the Top 100, "Jones vs. Jones", it peaked at #39 and stayed on the Top 100 for 11 weeks...
  Claydes Charles Smith, the group's co-founder & lead guitarist, passed away on June 20th, 2006 at the young age of 57...
  May he R.I.P.
• Camille from Toronto, OhJust saw Kool & The Gang last night at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, PA. They were the opening act for Van Halen. I loved Kool's sound, their energy & the brass. Plus, you CAN NOT go wrong with this song! Popular in my hey-day when I was in my early 20s, these days even my 19 year old son knows the tune & words to the song. Everyone wants to dance AND sing along with this!
• Thegripester from Wellington, New ZealandHere is an alternate version of the lyrics:
  Sell-a-brate good deal, at Ford! Let's celebrate! X2
  
  There's a sale goin' on right here,
  We got to move the models from last year
  So bring your checkbook, and your trade-ins too.
  We've got some outrageous bargains for you.
  
  Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
• Isaac from C-town, OhThe song was recorded as a "celebration" for the success of a popular single on the album, and the overall success of the entire album. "Celebration" went on to get a higher spot on the charts

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