Your Place Or Mine
The Bar-Kays are one unique band that has survived tragedy an accomplished decades of great music. We here at The Totally Awesome Big 80’s Music Videos pay tribute to this great band with this song Your Place Or Mine. One of our favorite songs from the decade the with a great hook. A classic 80s music video, ripe with all things great about the 80s. Good music, great fashion, 80s hair and 80s furnishings.
The Bar-Kays are a popular soul, R&B, and funk group which began performing in 1966 and continue to perform today, although with only one original member. They began in Memphis, Tennessee as a favorite recording studio session musician group, backing major artists at Stax Records. They were chosen in 1967 by Otis Redding to play as his backing band.
On 10 December 1967, Redding, his manager, and band members Jimmy King (b. 1949; guitar), Ronnie Caldwell (b. 1948; organ), Phalon Jones (b. 1949; saxophone), and Carl Cunningham (b. 1949; drums) died in a plane crash in Lake Monona while on their way to a performance in Madison, Wisconsin. Trumpeter Ben Cauley survived the crash and bassist James Alexander (who missed the flight due to returning a rental car) rebuilt the group.
The reformed band consisted of Cauley; Alexander; Harvey Henderson, saxophone; Michael Toles, guitar; Ronnie Gorden, organ; Willie Hall, drums and later Larry Dodson, lead vocals. The group backed dozens of major Stax artists on recordings afterwards, including on Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul album, and changed direction in the 1970s to have a successful funk music career on Mercury Records. They continued to score hits on R&B charts well into the 1980s and have performed all over the world. The band took a hiatus in the late 1980s, but then reformed in 1991 with Alexander as the only remaining original member.
Discography
1967
Soul Finger
1969
Gotta Groove
1971
Black Rock
1972
(Various artists) Wattstax-The Living Word
1973
Do You See What I See?
1974
Cold Blooded
1976
Too Hot To Stop
1978
Flying High On Your Love
1978
Money Talks
1978
Light Of Life
1979
Injoy
1980
As One
1981
Nightcruising
1982
Propositions
1984
Dangerous
1985
Banging The Wall
1987
Contagious
1989
Animal
1994
48 Hours
1996
Best Of Bar-Kays
1998
Greatest Hits (Dominion)
Trivia
In the movie Spies Like Us, starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase, The Bar-Kays' hit "Soul Finger" is the favorite song of the crew of a Soviet mobile ICBM platform on patrol in Tajikistan S.S.R.
Dan Aykroyd also covered "Soul Finger" with John Belushi and their band, The Blues Brothers, on one of their albums.
James Alexander's son is award-winning rapper and music producer Phalon "Jazze Pha" Alexander, who was named after Phalon Jones.
Their songs "Too Hot to Stop" and "Soul Finger" are featured in the 2007 film Superbad
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