Fatback Band

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Formed 1970.

Fatback Band

Biography

The Fatback Band (later, simply Fatback) is an American funk and disco band. Most popular in the 1970s and 1980s, The Fatback Band is most known for their R&B hits, "(Do The) Spanish Hustle", "I Like Girls", "Gotta Get My Hands on Some (Money)", "Backstrokin'" and "I Found Lovin". Their 1979 single "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" is sometimes considered the first hip hop single.

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BBC Reviews

  1. Raising Hell 1975

    Review of Raising Hell

    Reviewed by Daryl Easlea

    Captures most of their eclectic, if occasionally misfiring magic.

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