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Tony Toni Tone's latest album, House of Music, will once again generate numerous comparisons between the style and sound of the Bay Area band and the R&B legends of the 1970s, such as Kool and the Gang and the Commodores. The retro stamp is not necessarily a label that the band should seek to avoid. In fact, Tony Toni Tone has become one of the most unique and outstanding contemporary groups because they have reinterpreted key elements of the classic soul tradition...
When house tutors told the D.J. to stop the music for the purpose of crowd control, partygoers continued to sing "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang...
...swoop in to seduce the candidate, caroming among five different campaigns, calling from a pay phone and needing the big guy now. "He's like a cult leader," says Stuart Stevens, a Dole media consultant who once worked with Morris. "The client has to get in there, drink the Kool-Aid and look him in the eye, get the whole mystical connection going...
...have survived were it not for Lieut. Colonel Madan K.C., a Nepalese helicopter pilot. Choppers seldom venture above 6,000 meters: at a certain height, the thin air reduces their lift. Yet Madan flew up to a giant cross the climbers had painted on the Everest ice with red Kool-Aid. There he hovered, runners just touching the snow's treacherous surface, as Gau was loaded on board. Madan flew Gau down to the base camp, then repeated the process with Weathers. It was the second-highest helicopter rescue in history...
...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...