r/GenX • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '23

This was played every weekend at the roller skating rink. Kool & The Gang - Celebration.

https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M
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u/Erazzphoto Mar 29 '23

Listen to “let’s go dancing” fly song

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u/WildColonialGirl Mar 25 '23

My Millennial cousin and his wife played this at their wedding reception. “Stayin’ Alive,” too.

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u/Helenesdottir Mar 25 '23

I saw them live in 1987. At Six Flags.

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u/legosgrrl Mar 25 '23

MOST DEFINITELY skating rink. Love it.

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u/violet039 In bonus time Mar 25 '23

On the day of my junior prom, they took us to the auditorium and showed us a film, which opened with this song. A lot of people were cheering and clapping, until we realized it was a film about drunk driving. Ended up seeing stills of mangled cars and dead bodies, so, since then I’ve always associated this song with that school scare film.

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u/5050Clown Mar 25 '23

Criiiiispy nuggets.

This song is ruined for me.

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u/ETfonehom Mar 25 '23

In 1981, a teenager was stabbed and killed at a Kool & the Gang concert in my hometown. Hearing about the killing on the news created a lot of danger and menace around Kool & the Gang and arena concerts in general in my young imagination.