Love & Understanding is the ninth studio album by the funk band Kool and the Gang, released in 1976

1976 in music

-January–February:*January 5 – Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determine is an air rifle....

. The album had mild success. Three tracks, "Hollywood Swinging", "Summer Madness" and "Universal Sound" were recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre in London, England.

The song "Summer Madness" was used in the motion picture Rocky

Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

as radio

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 background during a scene in Rocky's home. It is also featured in the soundtrack of the videogame Tony Hawk's Project 8

Tony Hawk's Project 8

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, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

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, and in a Nike

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 commercial. "Hollywood Swinging" is featured in the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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Track listing

Personnel

• Bass, vocals – Robert "Kool" Bell
• Drums, vocals, percussion – George Brown
• Guitar – Claydes Smith
  Claydes Charles Smith
  Claydes Charles Smith was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s...
  
  , Kevin Bell
• Piano – Ricky West
• Alto saxophone – Peter Duarte
• Alto saxophone, vocals, flute, congas – Dennis Thomas
• Tenor saxophone – Dennis White
• Tenor saxophone, alto flute, piano, vocals, ARP synthesizer
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   – Ronald Bell
  Ronald Bell (musician)
  Ronald Bell, also known by his Arabic name Khalis Bayyan is an American saxophonist, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer and singer, who was a founding member of the band, Kool & the Gang...
  
  
• Trombone – Ray Wright
• Trombone, vocals – Otha Nash
• Trumpet – Spike Mickens
• Trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals – Larry Gitten
• Backing vocals – Don Boyce, Royal Jackson, Something Sweet, Tomorrow's Edition

Production

• Arranged and written by – Kool & the Gang
• Engineer – B. Clearwater, H. Goldberg, T. Rosiello
• Mixed by – Terry Rosiellio
• Mastered by – Earl Williams
• Producer – K.G. Productions
• Executive producer – Khalis Bayyan
  Ronald Bell (musician)
  Ronald Bell, also known by his Arabic name Khalis Bayyan is an American saxophonist, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer and singer, who was a founding member of the band, Kool & the Gang...