Album: Ladies Night (1979)

Charted: 23 5

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• At seventeen we fell in love
  High school sweethearts,
  love was so brand new
  We took the vows of man and wife
  Forever, for life
  I remember how we made our way
  A little patience, the time we pray
  
  Can't imagine that this love is through
  Feelin' the pain, girl when you lose
  Oh it's too hot, too hot, lady
  Gotta run for shelter
  Gotta run for shade
  It's too hot, too hot, lady
  We gotta cool this anger
  What a mess we made
  So long ago you were my love
  Oh my love
  
  Flyin' high we never took the time
  To stop and feel the need
  Funny how those years go by
  Changing you, changing me
  I remember love's fever
  In our hearts, girl and in our minds
  REFRAIN
  Feeling the pain
  
  Oh it's too hot, too hot, lady
  Gotta run for shelter
  Gotta run for shade
  It's too hot, too hot, lady
  Gotta cool this anger
  From this mess that we've made
  It's too hot, too hot, lady
  Gotta run for shelter
  Gotta run for shade... Writer/s: Artis Ivey Jr, Bryan Dobbs, Geroge Melvin Brown
  Publisher: Exploration Group LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Bob from IndianaThis Ladies Night album was released in September of 1979 it wasn't released in 1978.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 22nd 1980, Kool and the Gang performed "Too Hot" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time the song was at #9 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eight days later on March 30th, 1980 it would peak at #5 {for 2 weeks} and spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #3 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
  And on the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "Ladies Night"; the week before was its 24th and last week on the Top 100; two months earlier on January 6th, 1980 it had peaked at #8 {for 2 weeks}.
• Steve from Bradford, United KingdomI love this song I met a girl at school verything I wanted in a girl we rifted apart thenwe were both working on the same ward ~ the spark was there ~ But somehow she was not the same girl ? I love all those years ago ~ this song says everyhing I felt when we eventualy divorced ~ were we imature? should we have had kiddies? should we have tried harder ? But it's alovely song & unless you've been there You cannot understand it's beauty ~ I also like the version where Lisa Stanfield took over the vocal s from JT~ Her motherly strained voice as if was her situation she's singing about & the Gang playing their funky soulful music behind her ~ It's one of the best collaberations EVER !
• John from Nashville, TnOn the heels of Kool and the Gang's comeback hit "Ladies Night" came this pleasant surprise. The title "Too Hot" suggests how a lady looks on the dancefloor. However, the song is about the stormy breakup of a marriage. Brilliant title, great story.

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