| "Jungle Boogie" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by Kool & the Gang | ||||
| from the album Wild and Peaceful | ||||
| B-side | "North, South, East, West" | |||
| Released | November 24, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Funk[1] | |||
| Length | 3:08 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Earl Bell, Ronald Nathan Bell, Donald Boyce, George Melvin Brown, Robert Spike Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, Clifford Adams and Dennis Thomas | |||
| Kool & the Gang singles chronology | ||||
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"Jungle Boogie" is a funk record by Kool & the Gang from their 1973 album Wild and Peaceful.[2] It reached number four as a single, and became very popular in nightclubs.[3] Billboard ranked it as the number 12 single for 1974, despite as many as 36 No. 1 singles that year.
In 1994, Jungle Boogie was repopularized on the soundtrack of the film Pulp Fiction.[4] It was also used in promo packages by wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling in the mid-1990s.
- ^ Big Gigantic (September 20, 2016). "The 30 Best Funk Songs Ever". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
- ^ Hamilton, Andrew. "Wild and Peaceful - Kool & the Gang". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ Dean, Maury (2003). Rock N' Roll Gold Rush. Algora. p. 287. ISBN 0-87586-207-1.
- ^ "Pulp Fiction soundtrack: Every song in the movie by scene".