The Bar-Kays

6music

Formed 1966.

Biography

The Bar-Kays are a soul, R&B, and funk group formed in 1966. The group had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number 17, R&B number 3) in 1967, "Son of Shaft" (R&B number 10) in 1972, and "Boogie Body Land" (R&B number 7) in 1980.

Wikipedia This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia. Find out more about our use of this data.

Links & Information

Members

Share this page

More BBC Music highlights

  1. Later... with Jools Holland

In order to listen to track previews you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions.

Latest Tracks Played on the BBC

  1. Shake Your Rump To The Funk

    BBC 6 Music | Radcliffe and Maconie 10/05/2013

     
  2. Soul Finger

    BBC 6 Music | Shaun Keaveny Gideon Coe sits in

     

Similar Artists

  1. Isaac Hayes

    Isaac Hayes

  2. Ohio Players

    Ohio Players

  3. Booker T. & The MG's

    Booker T. & The MG's

  4. Rufus Thomas

    Rufus Thomas

  5. We use data provided by The Echo Nest to recommend similar artists. Find out more about this information.

BBC © 2013 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.