Biography

The Bar-Kays began as a gritty instrumental soul band in the manner of their mentors, Booker T & the MGs. They were employed as Otis Redding's backing band on tour, until a tragic 1967 plane crash took the lives of Redding and four band members. With a revamped line-up, the group reinvented itself as a '70s disco-funk hit machine, continuing in various permutations until 1993.

Top Tracks

• Click on the track to launch in Spotify

• Barkays

• Bar-kays Boogaloo

• Boogie Body Land

• Do You See What I See?

• Don't Stop Dancing (to The Music), Pt. 1

• Get Down On It

• Grab This Thing

• Hit And Run

• Hollar If You Like That

• Holy Ghost

• I Was Made To Love Her

• Memphis At Sunrise

• Move Your Boogie Body

• Sexomatic

• Shake Your Rump To The Funk

• She Talks To Me With Her Body

• Sho-nuff

• Son Of Shaft

• Soul Finger

• Too Hot To Stop

• Yesterday

• You Can't Sit Down

Discography

• Click on the album to launch in Spotify

• Banging the Wall

  Mercury

  1985

• Dangerous

  Mercury

  1984

• Propositions

  Universal International

  1982

• Nightcruising

  Masterpiece Classic

  1981

• As One

  Mercury

  1980

• Light of Life

  Mercury

  1978

• Flying High on Your Love

  RSI Music

  1977

• Coldblooded

  Stax

  1974

• Black Rock

  Jvc Victor

  1971